is vista home basic as heavy on resources?

Hi

was wondering if home basic was as good or almost as good as windows xp in terms of using resources as opposed to the other versions of vista which apparently "hog resources"

thanks

 

Got any proof of that??? I wouldn't say they hog resources, given that anyway these days systems come with a min of 2GB mem, with an average of 3GB, no, Vista does not hog resources.. and there are many ways in which you can optimize Vista for the way you want it to be. It has more functionality and better organization.

 

@FONDUEKID: Dude, cut him some slack, he not stating vista hogs resources, that why he uses the word apparently.

Vista has gotten a lot better since the start and personally dont think it hogs resources as much as it used to. If you had the option I would definately try to get vista premium but if you only have the option of XP/basic I would probably go for basic as some vista only games are cropping up.

 

lol @ Manic Penguins... I know I know... may be the tone was misunderstood I didn't mean any offence.. I was just referring to that "apparently" word too just to ask if there was some proof from wherever the OP 'apparently' learnt that vista hogs resources.. Anyways... No worries anyone. All is well.

And yes, just to stress Penguins remarks, Vista has gotten "A Lot" better... and as I kept saying in other threads, and as many others keep saying too, Vista is really nice to work with...

To the OP, please take a look at the sticky by Les, and also search around for a few threads here in Windows forum.. and U will know more from personal user experience Good Luck.

 

sorry for any confusion, let me redo this...

what i was asking was is vista basic easier on resources than the premium versions

 

Yes because of Aero. I still prefer XP over Vista.

 

To be direct to your question, I would guess yes, in all probability.. mainly the aero thing for example.

Edit: Opps Rodknee...U beat me. Anyways

 

does it come close to xp in terms of frugalness?

i ask because i want to run it on my old laptop....its a 1.5ghz pentium 4m....

it runs XP well, i've tried vista home premium on it and its horrible. i dont mind upgrading to vista basic if it has just a slight performance hit...

fonduekid, i think you over reacted a bit. im not bashing vista. no need to get all heated up about it.

partly my fault, i know how some people are pretty passionate about the xp vs vista issue.....

 

In a word NO. As I mentioned previously i've used Vista on and off since launch and 95% of my systems use XP. For me it's the better choice just from a performance, resource and compatibility standpoint.

 

Judging by your processor, I would just stick to XP and avoid Vista altogether.

 

really?? i thought the aero interface and eye candy would be the biggest factor in terms of resource use.

from what i can tell (at least from the microsoft site) basic looks quite stripped down....

how are people running it on some UMPC's? that is what led me to think perhaps it was similar to xp....

 

No one is heated up or anything here, LOL... its a frickin' forum anyways and I was just giving u some frank opinions... And I didn't think u were bashing Vista too..

Anyway, its all personal opinion, and as Rodknee said, everyone might have their own thoughts about which is better.

I would always say I found Vista to be lot better (and to my surprise too) after having worked with windows / linux for close to 10 years now...

As another user mentioned you might wanna factor in your system configuration too, before deciding on the OS you wanna use... Good Luck.

 

I don't think, imho, the aero interface and the so-called eye candy eats up your system resources in such a major way... and in any case, u could turn off aero / turn off some visual settings as you wished.. and I work with everything on in fact, and I don't see any effect.. so, probably it comes down to system config., processors etc etc???? Probably!!

 

yea i agree, vista runs fine on modern systems. my girlfriend has a low end acer travelmate bought last year and vista runs great on it. made me wonder what all the fuss is about lol....people saying vista sucked etc.

just wondering, has anyone actually tried basic vs full versions?

 

Why don't you try Vista Home Premium and see for yourself?

 

Vista basic runs on 600-750 MB of RAM easily if tweaked normally.

extreme Tweaking then it can run on 550 MB.


Vista basic doesnt have Aero Glass + Flip 3D ..so it doesnt take much RAM for Desktop Window manager process.

It has some drawbacks also..it doesnt have snipping tool also & no MS Games like chess (who plays that anyway)

other than that Vista Basic is great if u want a light toned down OS.

For transparency u can use lot of 3rd party apps which are ten times lighter on the system & take Zero GPU resources.

 

Vista basic does have some of the MS games like hearts, mine sweeper, spider, etc. It does not have the 3D games like mahjong or chess. The snipping tool is nice on premium but you can use print screen and copy into paint on basic. Just takes a little more time and a few more clicks. Basic does not have media center. I never use it but others do. I have computers with basic and with premium. If you have a slow processor basic is an OK way to go. It will run with 512mb ram but is Happier with 1g.

 

It's fine on 1GB...
As for Vista basic vs. others.
Yes and no.
Basic doesnt have Aero, so yes, but its the same OS, so yes.