Vista?

[adqttr]

hey,
I just got windows vista business edition. Right now i have a Dell laptop with a celeron 2.2 ghz processor with 768 gb of ram. Do you think that i will get better performance if i upgrade to vista or will i get better performance from staying with xp?

I heard that vista is faster but the gui makes it slower for inadiquite computers. Let me know if anyone knows what i should do.

thanks for your help.

 

[KeypoX]

XP will give better performance... i have business as well on a dual boot with XP and this is the first time I have used vista.

To say the least i see nothing revoltionary and you take a major hit on performance ... also after about 10 min of use i had the first crash ( explore.exe took 100% CPU usage killed it and had to log off/restart)

Bottom line is you can install dual boot and try it out but it will not run as fast and in my experince as stable as xp.

I will keep the dual boot and try to get to know it better but i am far from impressed.

BTW it takes 49% of my 1 gig of memory at boot nothing opened.

 

[KeypoX]

also read here for any thing you prob want to know


http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=34&threadid=1999401&enterthread=y

 

[pcgeek11]

WHat video card do you have? If it doesn't support Aero I wouldn't waste that version on it. I ran Vista Home Basic on an Inspiron 5100 2.66Ghz P4, 32 MB Video, 768 MB Ram and it ran fine... No Aero but there wasn't much difference in speed once the indexing was completed. I ran RC1 and RC2 for months without any problems at all.

pcgeek11

 

[adqttr]

I head Aero was supposed to be the big break in xp so if the video car doesn't support that its a waste of my time to try to put it on there? if you have a good computer that can support all that vista has to offer is it worth it to install on that? or would xp still give you better performance?

 

[Pwnbroker]

Originally posted by: KeypoX
also after about 10 min of use i had the first crash ( explore.exe took 100% CPU usage killed it and had to log off/restart)

This 100% usage was due to the new indexing scheme in Vista. Upon first boot, Vista will index everything on your computer, for the fast search feature. After this initial indexing, which is supposed to take less than an hour, it will no longer be an issue. It will index when the computer is idle.