Hi Thomas, That's interesting because my current laptop, which was originally going to have Vista on it, is only a 1.8ghz Celeron processor. Regards, Damien
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 8:59 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] old game companies we have not heard much about > Hi Aaron, > I don't think there is going to be any major performence changes in > Windows 7. The thing is in my own personal experience with Windows Vista > if you want it to run smoothly you need no less than a 3 GHZ processor > and 1 GB of ram. If you want it to run better get a faster processor and > double the ram to 2 GB. Vista and Windows 7 were never designed to run > on 1 GHZ and 2 GHZ systems, and for whatever the reason Microsoft > falsified and under stated Vista's system requirements to in sure sales > with people running older XP systems. What few people are realising is > instead of smaller faster, etc Vista and Windows 7 are larger, more > graphical, and need far more system resources than XP because they need > all that for the 3D desktop, 3D animated icons, and the other crap they > added to the os. There really isn't a good way to improve system > performence unless MS decides to yank out all the new 3D graphics > technology, gadgets, etc that comes with Vista. > > > Valiant8086 wrote: >> Hi. >> Do they intend, as far as you've heard, to work on resource >> intensiveness? >> The primary reason i'm running xp still, other than the audio >> limitations, >> is I find vista slow. Jaws isn't as responsive there. I can't arrow >> quickly >> around because when I hit the top or bottom edge of my screen it then >> takes >> a while to scroll the entire screen and let me read the next line, >> slowing >> me down rediculously. Everyone claims vista is one blazing fast OS, how >> wrong they are. I've tried it on three different laptops and they've all >> done the same thing. One has a 1.8ghz core2duo, the next had a 1.81ghz >> turion64x2, and this one here has a core2duo 1.66ghz. this one is much >> better than the other two because I suppose vista business has a lower >> footprint and runs fewer processes. No media center to take care of and >> what? I don't know, i'm really disapointed though, you'd think ms'd be >> trying to really make it go fast, smaller, faster, easier. Oh, and do you >> know it takes me more steps to connect to the internet on vista? I need >> less >> steps in xp. Start menu, network connections, hit enter on wireless >> network >> connection, ok a little more than two but the option to do these things >> is >> berried unvariably deeper in vista than it is in xp. It's not more user >> friendly for me, except for the windows update feature which rocks. And, >> every time I want to connect to my school's dual t1 on vista I have to >> repair my local area network connection for some reason. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
