Vista might need 800mb of RAM

[gazza1972]

I think I will stick with my copy of windowblinds, and save myself 80 odd quid! MS really need a rival and some competion in th OS market, they are getting seriously lazy with there software innovations. Hardware manafacturers must rub there hands with glee everytime Mr gates announces a new version of win, 800 meg, you can not be serious Bill, its just XP with a few transparency effects and new wallpapers!

 

[NathanE]

I think I will stick with my copy of windowblinds, and save myself 80 odd quid! MS really need a rival and some competion in th OS market, they are getting seriously lazy with there software innovations. Hardware manafacturers must rub there hands with glee everytime Mr gates announces a new version of win, 800 meg, you can not be serious Bill, its just XP with a few transparency effects and new wallpapers!

I suggest keeping a salt shaker next to your PC in future. So that when you're reading similar anti-Vista articles published by sensationalist sources you can get your required supplement of sodium easily.

As for your comment about stability, see here.

 

[andshrew]

Their screenshot shows that its using about 400mb of RAM not 800mb?
They 800mb figure is whats currently in the page file...

Another great Inquirer article

 

[uk_viper]

not suprising considering, microsoft are saying min requirements are 512mb ram

 

[Phil99]

Their screenshot shows that its using about 400mb of RAM not 800mb?
They 800mb figure is whats currently in the page file...

Another great Inquirer article

Commit Charge is 840MB, just that it's only using 400MB of the physical RAM.

 

[janesssssy]

dont know what the problem is really, even if it needed 2Gb ram, these days thats not a lot. Anyway theres going to be more than one version of vista, a very cut version for all who cant be bothered to upgrade to the 21st century.

 

[.SJ]

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[thefranklin]

Did anyone read the article comparing versions of vista?

It was a thread here a couple of weeks ago.

It had the cheapest version of vista only supporting up to 256MB Ram. So obviously they can get the number down a bit.

 

[Otacon]

It had the cheapest version of vista only supporting up to 256MB Ram.

Try and find an article saying that. I'm willing to bet you'll struggle

 

[NathanE]

Did anyone read the article comparing versions of vista?

It was a thread here a couple of weeks ago.

It had the cheapest version of vista only supporting up to 256MB Ram. So obviously they can get the number down a bit.

Yes the Starter Edition doesn't have Aero Glass or the Desktop Compositor. Hence it has a reduced RAM requirement...

People really need to understand the concept that windows are now stored as textures in memory. If you don't understand that then you won't be able to understand why the memory usage figures are higher than on XP.

 

[ethos]

Whats with people saying 40+ processes is a lot to run? What do you guys use your pc's for?!

I'm running 50 at the moment and can't say I'm doing a great deal...

 

[Otacon]

Hence it has a reduced RAM requirement...

But not limitation, right?

 

[Craig321]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30128
Pic with the link

"A CHAP who managed to sneak a peek at the Vole's internal beta version 2 of Windows 53xx informed us that, even while idling, Vista eats as much as 800Mb of system memory.

Yeah, we were shocked too, but you have to believe the screenshot below.

Memory manufacturers couldn't be happier about that, as it will make people to go out and buy more memory. Our source reported that Vista runs ok with 1024Mb of system memory but no-doubt 2048Mb would be much better.

Vista won't install on FAT32 partitions, it only likes NTFS partitions. We also know that the system performs quite well on an Athlon 4000+ and a Geforce 7800 GTX 512 works just fine in the mix. Aero glass looks good, we liked it when we first clapped eyes on Beta 1 version.

Vista occupies roughly three times more space than Windows XP. In fact, it'll require up to a whopping seven gigabytes of drive space. "

Saw a video and they said they're going to optimize it to run smooth on a normal home PC.

Craig.

 

[NathanE]

But not limitation, right?

For the Starter Edition? Yes. 256MB. Not that it matters because that edition is only sold in the far east - and in small numbers at that.

Home Basic supports upto 8GB. Home Premium supports 16GB. The business and "Ultimate" editions don't have any license imposed limit.

Source: http://winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_editions_final.asp

 

[Otacon]

Oh sorry, for some reason the words 'starter edition' didnt seem to register when I read your post first time round

 

[NathanE]

Whats with people saying 40+ processes is a lot to run? What do you guys use your pc's for?!

I'm running 50 at the moment and can't say I'm doing a great deal...

I agree. I've got 46 running and a total of 1.2GB memory usage (thank the two instances of Visual Studio for that

) and my system is running along just fine. Considering I've only got 1 GB of RAM it's performing excellently. *Hugs the NT kernel.*

Oh sorry, for some reason the words 'starter edition' didnt seem to register when I read your post first time round

 

[thefranklin]

Thank you NathanE, that was what i remembered reading.

and yes Otacon, you were right about me not being able to find it!

 

[Eliot]

Look how many processes they're running.

I think my RAM useage would be a quite high running 47.

Me looks at my Task Manager and sees 26

im running 46 and have 340mb usage.

 

[BoomAM]

66 Processes.
501Mb

1Gb main memory.

Im quite looking forward to Vista, they're finally doing what they should have been doing for years, making the video card do something in Windows, and not just in games.