Help with class debate please =]

[Brammo]

I am currently in the process of putting together a class debate to try and prove that Windows xp is better than vista overall. I would much appreciate views and arguements for and against vista and xp but we all know vista is just a hardware hog and its like a queer pretty version of xp. Most people will say you can only get 3Gb of memory on xp but i am pretty sre on a 64 bit of xp you can get a lot more can i have this question answered please?

Cheers brammo

 

[Sarduk]

I am currently in the process of putting together a class debate to try and prove that Windows xp is better than vista overall.

Don't debate what you don't know anything about.

to try and prove that Windows xp is better than vista overall.

You'll have already lost from the word go.

vista is just a hardware hog

No its not.

like a queer pretty version of xp

No, its absolutely not.

Most people will say you can only get 3Gb of memory on xp

No, they don't.

can get a lot more can i have this question answered please?

In any 32bit OS, the 'most it will see' (in the simplest possible words here) is around 3.5GB, because the most it can address is 4GB, and it includes all your graphics card RAM etc.

pretty sre on a 64 bit of xp

You'd have to be pretty foolish or have a very specific, particular requirement of a PC to go out and buy XP 64bit instead of Vista 64.

Don't hotlink

 

[Brammo]

I take it you are a big fan of vista but no offense vista takes up a hell of a lot of your graphics ram and cpu. People say they use vista because there is a ram restriction on xp but on the 64 bit of xp you can run up to 16Gb! FACT!

 

[Brammo]

No mate vista is a failure!

 

[Sarduk]

I take it you are a big fan of vista

No, not a big fan of anything - I'm just sensible and know this stuff.

no offense vista takes up a hell of a lot of your graphics ram

lol.. no. Do you even know what graphics RAM is for?

and cpu

No, it doesn't.

People say they use vista because there is a ram restriction on xp

They're misinformed, then.

but on the 64 bit of xp you can run up to 16Gb! FACT!

Actually, it is 128 GB (nowadays), but it can technically support up to 16TB.

Don't hotlink

 

[bledd]

are you 10?

both have their pluses
both have their minuses

i was going to do what JimpsEd did.


i use xp64 and vista64

 

[HeX]

Nothing wrong with Vista, after using it for best part of a year I could never go back to XP now.

SP1 fixed 99% of the problems early adopters were having.

Vista is ofter missdiagnosed as a memory hog, when what it is actually doing is caching stuff you use often so it can open faster. Free memory is wasted memory.

Also, if you don't like Aero etc, you can just disable all the fancy graphics...

 

[Brammo]

Yeah but no matter what you say xp still runs faster and say when running games you always need a higher req than xp

 

[bledd]

some games run faster in xp
some games run faster in vista

you've got a real childish fanboy xp attitude

programs open quicker in vista, with superfetch

 

[Brammo]

LOL

 

[bennyB]

Look if you don't believe what people here are saying why don't you buy a copy for yourself and try it first hand? I think you'll be suprised by the difference between your current perception and the reality....

 

[bledd]

way-to-get-permabanned

 

[Lysander]

So has ** mum when i ragged her las nite!

W-ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

EDIT - no point in trying to have this discussion anymore.

 

[Brammo]

kk then i will give it a go

but i know i will be dissapointed loads of people that know were running vista have swapped back because of the stupid bugs etc crashes and the fact that it uses amounts of your components that do not need to be used!!!!

you get silly messages every time you want to open something

I hate it i would just rather windows 95 than vista atleast that way my pc wouldnt ask me if i wanted to shut down

 

[Lysander]

kk then i will give it a go

but i know i will be dissapointed loads of people that know were running vista have swapped back because of the stupid bugs etc crashes and the fact that it uses amounts of your components that do not need to be used!!!!

Components are there to be used - it's better that than they sit there idle.

Vista caches RAM through a system called Superfetch. This means it preloads commonly used programs into the RAM for faster load times. That's why more of it is used up. What's the point in having 4GB of RAM if you don't use it?

 

[Sarduk]

Typical troll, I am out. Hopefully he'll get banned!

 

[metamorphpwner]

kk then i will give it a go

you get silly messages every time you want to open something

Lol, i was just like you at first, hated vista, now that i've had used it a lot with updates and turned off the annoying messages, it's actually really good

 

[Brammo]

Components are there to be used - it's better that than they sit there idle.

Vista caches RAM through a system called Superfetch. This means it preloads commonly used programs into the RAM for faster load times. That's why more of it is used up. What's the point in having 4GB of RAM if you don't use it?

For when I do use it!

 

[Brammo]

I may give it a try I think I aint sure but i might have to buy another 2 gig ram first i aint running it in just 2 gig because then i know it will suck!

 

[Lysander]

For when I do use it!

In such a situation it de-caches those commonly used programs and loads in whatever application you're using which demands more RAM. It uses RAM intelligently in a way that XP doesn't.