memory usage myths

[Eric Gisin]

Some posts claim Vista requires 1GB because they notice a commit charge of 800MB.

On systems with 512MB, the commit charge is comparable to WinXP.
Commit charge is pagefile allocated (not used), certainly not RAM usage.
Also, there are extra services running by default in Ultimate.

http://thelazyadmin.com/index.php?/archives/396-Mythbusting-Windows-Vista-Memory-Management.html

To all the people running in 512M, how does it compare to XP?
This affect Pentium III owners, who are limited to that.
Are the first gen P4 (Intel 845) owners limited too?

 

[Zack Whittaker \(R2 Mentor\)]

OK, wait until Beta 2 to come out (April) to find out that all these sorts
of myths really are myths, because until April, the Vista lot are doing very
little in terms of performance bashing. I think if you wait until then,
you'll realise that you can have *just* the current requirements for Vista
and it will run pretty smoothly still.

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[Travis King]

From videos of seeing people using Vista, it seems to run just about as fast
as XP - although I don't know how fast of computers they were using in the
videos. These would be videos I found using Google.

 

[Zack Whittaker \(R2 Mentor\)]

The videos were more than likely tweaked and edited to run faster p

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[Travis King]

One of the videos was a person that was actually using Vista in their home.
It was an older release, however - pre-5270.

 

[Deansweb2004|NT]

I agree on Zack with this one.. Wait intill April.. At the moment they are
changing things everywhere. I remember going to one place in the originally
builds and in the new builds its completely been moved which is annoying but
good in another ways..

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[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Actually, I would wait until RC1.
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