--- 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
>


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