FYI Vista on SR laptop vs. HP Desktop

Hey everyone, just wanted to share an observation that i made today. I have the SR, my bro has a HP with an Athlon X2 2.6ghz, 2gigs of ram, and an integrated Nvidia 6150, desktop. Anyways, the system has had ZERO tweaking, or uninstalling done to it. His system has tons of symantic Norton antivirus/suite stuff, and some stupid HP advisor dock thing running.

Anyways, with a non-optimized, everything turned on vista on his computer, and itunes installing, windows update downloading/installing, and all the hp crapware running it only had 66 procceses running! I've spent a couple of hours tweaking vista on my SR and i have 66-70 procceses running at idle with sidebar turned off! How is this possible? He has no services disabled, nothing tweaked, sidebar on, aero on, and programs running and its more efficient? ***.

This is just a rant, so feel free to chime in. This isnt scientific and i havent done thorough analysis, just saw the processes running during all that on both machines.

 

Sony puts more software stuff maybe? I don't know. I have mine down to about anywhere from 58-62 once everything starts up and it idles. (before turning on things like MSN, WMP, Firefox, etc.)

I think that HP is usually pretty good about the excessive ware that they give you minus Norton. My Aunt's old 2005 HP desktop that I use mainly for Zune synching isn't too bad. It only has 512 mb Ram XP SP2 and has Norton running (It's not my computer to remove). That thing only runs about 45 processes with SP2, and I have noticed that they don't seem to load as much as some other companies. Sony's a bit infamous for loading weird stuff onto laptops, or more stuff you have to pay for. (If any comparison worth: My Dell from 2003 or whatever only has 23 processes running on XP SP1 once I exit the stupid Dell Support processes before they load. Thing is pretty efficient. It takes a while to start up though, it's a slow hard drive and it's old. I had to do a fresh install on it back in 2004 though, and it's been good since then.)

 

Sony puts hella bloatware on their laptops. Its really annoying, takes hours to clean. The $100 for the bloat-free Vista Business option is actually probably worth it.

 

This is why I say always do a clean install and do NOT install all the Sony utilities.

 

I do think that a laptop will always have more processes running by nature however, since you need them for things like the touchpad. However, Sony definitely does have more bloatware than I was expecting. yay for semi-clean installs.

 

That's actually a pretty good point, i never really thought about it, but your absolutley right! There are various types of software running to keep the webcam, trackpad, keyboard, etc running... that could def contribute, thanks for your input!

 

just uninstall the crap and you msconfig to disable the services from running on startup

also, is your computer running slow? lots of processes run but barely use any cpu power

 

Exactly--I think the "Processes" count includes services, of which there are many more for a laptop. So, as said above, laptops get a disadvantage from the start if your only criteria is the Processes count.

 

I already did all that. I disabled processes, disabled services, and used cc cleaner to disable startup items. I'm not a newb, lol. My computer is not running slow at all, i was just ranting, as i mentioned in the original post