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    Windows 7 resources

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by The_Musician, Mar 1, 2009.

  1. The_Musician

    The_Musician Notebook Consultant

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    how consuming is the OS?

    is it as consuming as vista, not as consuming, etc.?
    because as far as i know/have heard (because im not a software junkie i dunno this stuff well), vista is going to use ~2gigs of my ram constantly, of out the 4 that i have (running vista 64bit)
     
    The_Musician, Mar 1, 2009
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  2. dbam987

    dbam987 wicked-poster

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    Windows 7 consumes less resources than Vista does. It actually scales very well with machines that have limited memory of about 512 MB. There is another thread in these forums that a person tested out Windows 7 with a varying amount of memory and got excellent results.

    Edit: Found that thread here. Give it a quick read, as the results are amazing.
     
    dbam987, Mar 1, 2009
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  3. The_Musician

    The_Musician Notebook Consultant

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    thanks great thread
     
    The_Musician, Mar 2, 2009
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    TheAtreidesHawk Notebook Deity

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    I wish I was getting fast boot times. Unfortunately it seems to take minutes to load up for me.
     
    TheAtreidesHawk, Mar 2, 2009
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