Actually, Win7 and Vista manage memory just about identically on high memory systems, Win7 simply switches to a different management algorithm on low-memory systems for improved performance while Vista (which predates the netbook's popularity) takes a serious hit due to its aversion to hitting swap. Vista is quite willing to give your apps memory as long as they ask for it, but it won't prefer apps over OS running at the same priority level.
All that memory that Vista 'Grabs' is really just an avoidance of swap and the performance hit you take from using it, XP hit swap much harder as it was optimized for low-memory systems. This makes for a big speed boost on high-memory systems (over 2GB) for Vista or 7 vs XP, but worse performance on 1GB or smaller systems for Vista (7 works more like XP on low-memory systems). -Adam On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:19 AM, John Mullan <k...@hotmail.com> wrote: > One big difference in Windows 7 is the better use of memory. Instead of > Vista grabbing all the memory and reluctantly letting you use a little bit > of it, Windows 7 requires far less and leaves more for your applications. > > jm -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
