Vista is not so memory hungry

[liqnit]

at some places over the net you could think that Vista will consume so much memry that it is unbelieved
but in the following article (http://thelazyadmin.com/index.php?/archives/396-Mythbusting-Windows-Vista-Memory-Management.html)
you can see that even on 512MB PC vista is using only 237MB.
Vista is using the memry depending on the size available onm th PC.

[BlindMonk]

I thought all the memory talk sloshing about concerned the OS running at maximum visual levels. Rather like the "recommended specifications" one sees on game boxes/reviews. :shrug:

[Rob Williams]

Well, the '800MB' figure is rediculous at any rate. The thing is, most postings about this memory hog have mentioned a very specific build. If anything, that build could have developed a memory leak, or else this would have been public knowledge for quite a while.

I find it strange that Vista has been in Beta 1 for months and months, and only now somebody comes out and says "Oh look, this is using 800MB of ram."

[liqnit]

it is probably was loaded with a lot of apps and got to 800MB.

[PUTALE]

here is the link that explain the 800mb ( http://thelazyadmin.com/index.php?/archives/396-Mythbusting-Windows-Vista-Memory-Management.html)

[liqnit]

here is the link that explain the 800mb ( http://thelazyadmin.com/index.php?/archives/396-Mythbusting-Windows-Vista-Memory-Management.html)
i put the link few posts above :D

[Jakal]

It's good to see that the new os is not so resource hungry, but it makes 256mb the standard ram. Which, in my opinion, isn't enough anyway. I had the Longhorn theme for xp and I did like the different buttons and transparency it added. Like others, I won't jump on it as soon as it comes out. It will take some time for drivers and software to be "vista ready". It does look good though. I hope some of the security problems associated with xp are cleared up.

[izzie]

Usually a good idea to wait about a year after Microsoft releases a new operating system. There are always the very obvious bugs that exist in the new operating system thru the first 6 months. I got a laugh when Windows XP was first released and it didn't even work with CD-writers, and games were stuck at 60 HZ refresh rate. Talking about obvious bugs that should of been caught before it was ever released.....

[liqnit]

i thnk Vista is better debugged then XP .
they did a very long time of testing almost 4 yrs

[anibalX]

yeah.. sure.. but if i wanna use this windows, think the recommended is 1 gb... and if you can buy 2gb

[Jakal]

512 maybe, but with the amount of pc's it'll be installed on I doubt 1Gb is going to be recommended. The specs XP has were quite lower than I had expected. I wouldn't expect Vista to be too much higher than a 700Mhz 256Mb machine. If that.

[liqnit]

my guess - a good vista machine will require 1.4GHZ & 512MB system

[DarkSynergy]

I am sure all of our current PCs will be able to run Vista at one quality setting or another. Hell, I loaded XP on my old 366MHz PII notebook and it ran decently well.

[CoolZone]

vista is ok...hardware developers are way behind this software now