Oh yeah...she's flying now :D

[Desmo]

Just upgraded the laptop from 1GB to 2GB ram. Blimey, what a difference it makes with Vista :D
What with my other upgrade to 64bit Ultimate as well, she's really flying now. Wish I'd done this a little while ago when I first thought about it.

[Feek]

Vista really is rubbish with 1Gb RAM.

[Stan_Lite]

Vista really is rubbish with 1Gb RAM.

Try it with 512Mb and a 1.6GHz Dothan :o

I put it on the old laptop I have with me on the rig for a giggle - it works but it's painfully slow and Aero doesn't work as there are no vista drivers for the 915GM chipset - which also means the graphics suck big time.

I'm going to try it with the 2Gb of RAM from the M1710 when I get home just to see what sort of difference it makes but I'll be taking it off and putting XP/Ubuntu dual boot back on though. It's crap without proper video drivers (Intel have no intention of releasing any :().

[Will]

Oh yeah 2gb does make it much much better - unfortunately my laptop only has 1Gb, but decided that because it's a fairly powerful one I'd try it, it worked well, but I'm back on Linux on it.

I can imagine that 4gb on 64 bit is pretty noticeable too.

[Haly]

Earlier in the summer we bought two cheap Dell PCs, one for me and one for my Mum. Exact same spec (core2 1.6 iirc and 1gb ram) but mine ran on Vista, hers on XP. The speed difference was quite scary :shocked:
Since then I've swapped to a different cheap Dell and my Dad's got the Vista machine which now has a copy of XP on it instead, so much smoother :D

[Garp]

I don't bother with Aero, and my machine performs noticeably quicker for it. Quite disappointing really, even compiz fusion isn't that bloated and it can handle vista style effects and then some without noticeable slowdown :-/

Lets be honest too, what does it really add? Nothing significant from a user interaction process, unlike say the OS X fancy graphics.

[Will]

I quite like aesthetically pleasing desktop/windows as it's what you spend lots of time looking at. But it's a good point.

[Feek]

It adds prettyness for zero or practically zero CPU usage, and that's important.

[Will]

When I use the flip 3d thing etc the CPU load hardly flickers which is what I'd expect really no?

[Desmo]

Is there a shortcut key for that?

[Feek]

windows-tab?

[Will]

I use a button on my mouse (it's the 100% (set zoom to normal) button - I never use it other than that now. )

[Garp]

Am I just weird then in that I know what's on each of my windows, and can switch direct to them with ease without needing some fancy 3D GUI to show me?

[Fayshun]

Am I just weird then in that I know what's on each of my windows, and can switch direct to them with ease without needing some fancy 3D GUI to show me?
Yes.

[Dymetrie]

Am I just weird then in that I know what's on each of my windows, and can switch direct to them with ease without needing some fancy 3D GUI to show me?

Alt+Tab?

Still works in Vista :p

[Mark]

I use it because I can I think.

Helps when you've got two of the same application running (as I seem to want to do, regularly).

[LeperousDust]

Yes my Vista crawls with 2*512 sticks, its VERY annoying at times....

Xmas i'm treating myself to 2 or 4gb, god do i need it!

[Joe 90]

Vista really is rubbish with 1Gb RAM.

lol i had a student @ work using it on a lappy - centrino and 512mb!

i found it hard not to laugh when she said it was slow.