Jeff7181
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- Aug 21, 2002
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Originally posted by: SickBeast
Originally posted by: zerocool84
Originally posted by: SickBeast
I disagree that there is a performance boost in Vista. The disk performance absolutely sucks compared with XP. It uses way more memory. The only supposedly good feature in Vista is superfetch, but I never found it did anything with my 3gb of ram.
I would say you should wait for Windows 7. I hear there is a new beta coming out; maybe you could sign up for it to see if you like it.
Vista is much faster than XP. It has more memory usage because it utilizes the memory it has.
I would like to see some benchmarks to prove that.
Every disk benchmark I've ever seen has Vista lagging XP considerably.
Superfetch would not benefit the OP as he only has 2gb of ram.
What makes you say that? My desktop sits idle around 1 gig of memory usage... when I have a browser with a few tabs open, iTunes and an IM client, it's around 1200 MB usage... 800 MB reminaing is plenty for SuperFetch to make a difference. However, I have 8 GB total, so it's a non issue for me, but still, 2 GB is plenty unless you have an off-the-shelf computer with a bunch of crapware installed and running in the background.
*EDIT* I've also not experienced anything that indicates poor disk performance in Vista, though I haven't actually run any hard disk benchmarks.