Time for Vista? not yet..
Ok.. so I was curious as to how MS managed to get its customers and fellow IT industry turn towards using more RAM? - which is not a bad thing by the way, it’s a step ahead. But using an OS that out of the box uses a lot of RAM, I don’t think so.
So I got an opportunity to test drive a brand new Acer notebook with 1GB RAM loaded with Vista Home Premium. Right up front, I wasn’t happy with the performance. It was like me waking up in the morning. I tweaked it to turn the graphics off and some other stuff to make it faster, but the output was still too slow for a new notebook with a brand new OS. So I decided to duel boot it with XP Pro [of course this made me redo the boot sector with Vista again.. damn it!] But when XP started up, it was fast. I can bet if I had two notebooks to test it simultaneously - one with Vista and other with XP Pro, XP would win hands down. The performance of XP on a gig of RAM was a lot more better then Vista.
So long story short, if you guys just got a new notebook with Vista loaded, try XP and note the difference. I can bet you will enjoy the speed difference. Not so good move MS. MS better fix this before the customers start switching back to XP or even Ubuntu for that matter.
