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Your experiences of Vista performance
OK, so Vista is now out the door and manufacturers are now trying to push their systems with Vista only and no XP option. So how fast does your system have to be to make a good job of running Vista? I'd like to share my two experiences of Vista so far and I would be interested to hear your opinions based on what you've seen.
Minimum specs for Vista Home Premium are a PIII 800MHz with 512MB RAM - recommended specs are a PIII 1GHz or higher and 1GB RAM or more. Personally, I wouldn't be keen to put it on anything less than a P4 2.0GHz but I haven't had enough experience of it to say that with any authority.
For comparison, I've had 2 experiences of Vista in the last fortnight. The first was an Acer laptop with Vista Home Premium pre-installed. It was a Core 2 Duo 1.66GHz with 1GB RAM and I was very disappointed. Of course, as with any other manufacturer, Acer had bundled it with loads of other applications, utilities and overweight drivers to slow it down! My other experience was when I did a clean install of Vista Business on a Pentium D 2.8GHz with 2GB RAM for a customer last week. I was really impressed with that .... but it was literally only running Vista, drivers and Symantec Anti-Virus.
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