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    How bad can it be?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by AznJohnson, Jul 30, 2007.

  1. AznJohnson

    AznJohnson Notebook Guru

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    Having 1 GB on a Vista Premium? If what they say is true, and it is like an XP with 512 MB... then I'm ok... But really - how bad can it be?
     
    AznJohnson, Jul 30, 2007
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  2. Ethyriel

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    You won't want to do much more than surfing, emailing, and simple office tasks. Yeah, it's about like XP with 512MB, or maybe 384MB. It's definitely not as bad as 256MB. Of course, if your video card uses shared memory it's going to be worse.

    Memory is cheap right now, and is most likely going up. If you can make 2GB happen, go for it now.
     
    Ethyriel, Jul 30, 2007
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    What the penguin said!
     
    baddogboxer, Jul 31, 2007
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    greatpacha1 Notebook Evangelist

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    lol, the laptop im using until my sager arrives uses 1 gig for vista premium, and it runs most things fine. But no gaming will happen on it.
     
    greatpacha1, Jul 31, 2007
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    I put Xp onto a Intel 233Mhz, and 64MB of ram. Lmao!
    Watched the bar go across 60 times!!
    Used to be a $3000 computer in 98'
     
    allan_huang, Jul 31, 2007
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    I'm running premium with 1 gig, and things are fine. Not great or as responsive as I would like, but fine. Though, I haven't really tried any serious gaming with it (Go7600), but I'm planning to upgrade to at least 2 gigs soon. Hopefully things will be much nicer :)
     
    Quix, Jul 31, 2007
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  7. zfactor

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    vista ultimate on one of my home comps (not at all used for gaming thats left to my monster system) runs nearly everything fine.. you just cant run more than one heavy program at once or run really any kind of games on it they slow it to a crawl.. that system is oc'ed from a p4 northy to over 4.1ghz.. but it runs nearly everything fine for every day use.. the procc im actually going to go back to a stock clock setting since i dont use it for gaming any longer...
     
    zfactor, Jul 31, 2007
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    sinnasmurfen Notebook Guru

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    I'd say go for 2GB: I just got my new lappy, Vista Home Premium and out of the box the "rpm" gadget in the sidebar indicated about 25% RAM use whilst doing nothing!

    Gonna slim down the processes and background tasks and sure unused RAM is wasted RAM but I thought that was pretty high for a machine straigth out of the box. That being said, it is extremely responsive.
     
    sinnasmurfen, Jul 31, 2007
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  9. David

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    Even with 1GB on Vista, loading programs take longer... even more so if you have a 5400rpm HDD. 2GB should be standard with Vista
     
    David, Jul 31, 2007
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