Hi Damien, Yeah, I can definitely tell you a 1.8 GHZ processor is way too slow for Vista. It would technically run, but it would run pretty slow. Vista is a massive resource hog, and one reason it needs a really new computer to run half way decent. In 2007 whenI was evaluating Vista my first mistake was I initially did the install on a 2 GHZ Celeron machine with 512 MB of ram. It ran so slow I couldn't believe it. I upgraded the system to 1 GB of ram, and it ran a little better, but was still pretty slow. I was so disgusted with Vista's system performence I removed Vista from that box and put XP back on their. Currently my wife and I have two laptops with 3.6 GHZ processors and 1 GB of ram and Vista runs ok on them. It doesn't seam too slow. Sure Linux and Windows XP would actually run better on these laptops, but Vista needed the 3.6 GHZ processor to run like XP on a 1.2 GHZ machine. Every time I read the Vista system requirements online I have to laugh, because they are dead wrong. Acording to Microsoft Vista needs an 800 MHZ processor, 512 MB of ram, at least an 8 GB hard drive, etc. I have never tried Vista on a system with those specs, but if a computer with a 2 GHZ processor and 1 GB of ram couldn't do it effectively a system such as Microsoft describes would take 20 years to boot, to load web pages, open applications, etc. you know with system performence like that out of Vista I am almost afraid to see what Windows 7 needs. I think Windows has reached the point where it is just bloted, a huge resource hog, and half the stuff they added was unnecessary. Like did they really need to add the 3D Windows Arrow interface? Did the Windows Arrow desktop have to double system resources just to show the desktop in 3D? Did all the icons have to have 3D animation and move around slowing the system to a crawl? No, but they did it anyway.
Damien Sadler wrote: > 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 --- 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]
