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Anandtech's In Depth Review of Vista
Anandtech just posted their indepth review of the final version of Vista (not RC2, not RTM). 21 pages of pure joy or pure terror. Your choice! :D (Sure, that's maybe too dramatic, but it seems to bring out strong feelings!)
Anandtech Vista Review.
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On a laptop, at least from what I've been reading. I don't think you'll see any significant difference. In fact, it's likely that your going to run even slower. I just finished reading up on AnandTech's review of Vista, and they say that 1 Gig is the bare minimum to run Vista, with Vista easily consuming half of those resources for the system alone.
Vista only saw significant gains when running with 3 Gigs of memory, it was actually quite remarkable. The guys at AnandTech even say that small apps like Outlook, Winamp, WMP and MSN, boot up as if they were never even closed at all. Booting and shutting down multiple apps took only seconds. Bare in mind, these significant changes only came around when 3 Gigs of memory was installed.
From the review, I'm less likely to upgrade to Vista, at least until I can get 3 Gigs on a laptop, which I currently can't in my system. I'd also want to have at least 256 Megs of dedicated Graphics Memory. Gaming is another main problem on Vista, as it has yet been able to take advantage of the new technology. You'll have to wait for new Vista Drivers for your Graphics card.
I currently use a Fujitsu Lifebook N6010, with 2 Gigs of Memory running XP Pro, and I'm really itching to buy Vista and run it. But after the article, it's now higly unlikely. At least until I can get my hands on an Asus A8JS!!
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What is this, no mention of drm I see?
In the way that people are going crazy about it?
Could it be? That people who actually use Vista find that most of what people are saying isn't true?
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Personally I dont think Vista is that bad. I currently only have 2gigs of ram in my system and can tell a difference in apps opening and closing. I started to read that article and quit before the first page was completed because of the fact they state how annoying the user account security features are and how they hated that you have to answer the same question a few times to do anything. Well why didnt they just turn it off? I did and now im not annoyed by it. Either way. Other than a few minor tweaks here and there that need to take place and im sure bugs I havent seen yet Vista isnt all that bad.
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Regarding UAC, I would find it highly annoying every time I opened a program that wasn't yet "Vista ready". But they do mention that it can be turned off further into the review. It wasn't a "how to" as much as their take on the final release of Vista. Their point being that for non-power users (folks who might not figure out how to turn it off), the UAC might be self-defeating. I liked what they said here:
Here's another, slightly more provocative rundown:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37394
(Of course, this is the inq, which means it should be taken with a grain of salt)
Seems more of criticizing the Vista AD than actually criticizing Vista itself as an OS.
But MS does bank on the "Dummy factor". LOL