Jul 23, 2006, 07:28 PM
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We installed the beta on one of our powerful new workstations at work last week. Vista is, in a single word, Pigware. The box was an Athlon 64 3200+, with 1gb DDR2 memory, we just built it the previous day. It felt the same way Windows XP did when I installed it on a Dell Gx1 (No better than a P3 550).
The install was 10gb out of the box, and the PF usage was about 650mb, out of the box. The little toy sidebar alone consumed about 55mb of ram. No wonder 1gb is the recommended minimum from people that have tried it. I'm not looking forward to its widespread adoption.
It's prettier, but not worth the tenfold cost on the system. And the little window previews when you hover over icons in the taskbar was nifty, but that's the only thing I really noticed that I liked.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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