--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/17992/page1/ > > "My efforts to get Media Center working highlighted two big problems > with Vista. First, it's a memory hog. The hundreds of new features > jammed into it have made it a prime example of software bloat, > perhaps the quintessence of programmer Niklaus Wirth's law that > software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster (for more on > the problems with software design that lead to bloat, see "Anything > You Can Do, I Can Do Meta," p. 36). Although my computer meets the > minimum requirements of a "Vista Premium Ready PC," with one gigabyte > of RAM, I could run only a few simple programs, such as a Web browser > and word processor, without running out of memory. I couldn't even > watch a movie: Windows Media Player could read the contents of the > DVD, but there wasn't enough memory to actually play it. In short, > you need a hell of a computer just to run this OS."
Fill your memory up to it's limit. If you can get 4 gigs of mem. into your computer, go for it. Mark >
