Vista basic must be faster ?

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Been reading reviews all over on vista, and basic is always mentioned as being unusable yet the only difference i can see is the media centre which is crap imho and aero which is just a flash desktop , yet the min spec of basic is 512 mb and min spec of the others is 1gb ram, so surely as a gaming machine basic is the best alternative as it doesnt have background services running that you dont need
who uses aero here ? and is it worth the extra £10 and how much memory can we save not having thses things ?
am i missing something here, as personally ive always wanted an os that just does that, operates the system and doesnt bundle loads of useless crap with it, i only wish it was even more basic and binned ie7 windows mail and the burnng software etc
 
Aero is turned off when you run a game, so the impact is essentially nothing (tests done with Aero active and inactive proved this).

On a decent PC with 2GB of RAM or more, a decent CPU and graphics card, there's really not much to worry about. I personally keep background services/processes to a reasonable minimum; I'm happy to leave most things like AV software, keyboard software etc running, but I'll close MSN and I don't like those annoying system tray icons many apps install. I've also turned off a select few Windows services that aren't needed, but all in all, there's still a decent amount of stuff in the background and I still get damn good performance.
 
TheVoice said:
Aero is turned off when you run a game, so the impact is essentially nothing (tests done with Aero active and inactive proved this).

On a decent PC with 2GB of RAM or more, a decent CPU and graphics card, there's really not much to worry about. I personally keep background services/processes to a reasonable minimum; I'm happy to leave most things like AV software, keyboard software etc running, but I'll close MSN and I don't like those annoying system tray icons many apps install. I've also turned off a select few Windows services that aren't needed, but all in all, there's still a decent amount of stuff in the background and I still get damn good performance.
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so if you got basic you could have saved a tenner and not had to turn them off ;)
 
T C said:
so if you got basic you could have saved a tenner and not had to turn them off ;)
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No...because I wanted Aero (Vista without Aero is bland), and the Media Centre.

Plus I bought the Educational version of Home Premium, so it was cheap anyway.
 
personally i would pay MS an extra £10 to remove everything but the core os so i could just start the pc and play a game
 
TheVoice said:
No...because I wanted Aero (Vista without Aero is bland), and the Media Centre.

Plus I bought the Educational version of Home Premium, so it was cheap anyway.
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fair dos but i am talking theoretically just a gaming machine , aero is turned off while playing games and that is all this machine is going to be used for so its not needed ..

i was looking at the edu version as well , how do they go about proving your elligibility when activating it ? i home school my youngest child so must be elligible
 
It'd be interesting to see a benchmark between Vista Basic and Home Premium, but in all honesty I can't imagine the difference being perceivable in gaming. A decent-spec PC isn't going to be affected by a few idle processes in the background.

As for eligibility of the Educational Version of Vista, I've not had to do anything like that as yet (I am a student though, for what it's worth).
 
stickroad said:
Aero in my eyes is what makes Vista, its just so much nicer to use with the very smooth and sleek desktop.
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but not practical i had it on my laptop thought it was cool for a month then turned it off to save seconds opening my mail

stickroad said:
Windows Media Center is also very handy to have.
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have to agree with that one on my media pc with the xbox, works brilliant but on a single pc there are many apps out there that beat media centre
 
TheVoice said:
It'd be interesting to see a benchmark between Vista Basic and Home Premium, but in all honesty I can't imagine the difference being perceivable in gaming. A decent-spec PC isn't going to be affected by a few idle processes in the background.
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probably not much difference playing, but the initial booting of all the rubbish and starting of the game i reckon would be slower , i'm only asking as im rebuilding my gaming pc its a quad 6600 2gb ram and a 8600gts until i can afford a 8800, and was wondering which os to get and whether i would be missing out if i get the basic , probably going to go for 64bit as well
 
I really don't think you'd notice a performance difference at all. Vista boots quickly, runs quickly, loads apps and games quickly. Maybe if you're on a pitiful Sempron with 512MB of RAM you'd find Basic to be quicker, but on the spec in my sig, I find Home Premium to be plenty quick enough.
 
stickroad said:
Have you actually even used Vista yet or are you just going on Pictures, Videos, the Vista hate crew etc...?
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have vista on my laptop on my media pc and on my gaming pc which is getting rebuilt hence the thoughts right now
 
TheVoice said:
I really don't think you'd notice a performance difference at all. Vista boots quickly, runs quickly, loads apps and games quickly. Maybe if you're on a pitiful Sempron with 512MB of RAM you'd find Basic to be quicker, but on the spec in my sig, I find Home Premium to be plenty quick enough.
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its just not quick enough for me lol that extra second counts .............. besides that the extra tenner could get me a box of guinnes
 
T C said:
have vista on my laptop on my media pc and on my gaming pc which is getting rebuilt hence the thoughts right now
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You have Home Premium right?

Home Premium is definelty worth the pitty £10 over Basic.

T C said:
its just not quick enough for me lol that extra second counts .............. besides that the extra tenner could get me a box of guinnes
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All my applications, games etc load instantly for me, so dont know what your problem with your system is.
 
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I'm using Vista a good while now and IMO its not the add on crud that slows it down. Its bad coding thats causing a lot of the slow downs. Simple tasks sometimes take ages for no good reason. Its slowly improving with every update that gets released. Its much faster now than when I originally installed it. Since basic is pretty much the same as XP and XP is faster seems a no brainer to stick with XP unless you want the tarted up GUI of Vista.
 
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