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Re: [Digital BW] Vista v. XP??

2008-08-03 by Dana H. Myers

Shoshanna Moser wrote:

> The OS is so voraciously power-hungry, and its own absurdly unnecessary
> (but "cool"-- don't forget "cool"!) bells and whistles are so demanding,
> that the standard 1 or 2 gigabytes of RAM with which it's usually
> equipped cannot handle much beyond those minimal requirements placed on
> it by the average user.

I turned-off Aero and tweaked the settings so that the desktop
is basically around the same bells and whistles level as XP, and
found that performance is at least on par with XP on the same hardware.

Dana

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