Is Vista Worth?

[Sohail]

Vista's just a RAM eater and isn't worth it. I don't really have anything else to say about it though i really don't like it. I would really prefer Mac OS X as it's never failed me and always gets the job done .

[port5900]

Vista fills up the RAM for processes that you might start up later on. Free RAM is just a waste of RAM. This technique was taken from Linux . RAM really is cache and its job is to bring up processes to be used faster.

Think of it as the Pizza guy and the Chines guy standing at the corner of your block waiting for you to call, but they already have what ever you usually order fresh and warm waiting in the car. With XP the would have to cook the food and bring it over. get it?

" And the most important rule of cache design is that empty cache memory is wasted cache memory. Empty cache isn't doing you any good. It's expensive, high-speed memory sucking down power for zero benefit. The primary mission in the life of every cache is to populate itself as quickly as possible with the data that's most likely to be needed-- and to consistently deliver a high "hit rate" of needed data retrieved from the cache. Otherwise you're going straight to the hard drive, mister, and if you have to ask how much going to the hard drive will cost you in performance, you can't afford it."

This was taken from:http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000688.html
a must read for every computer person

[theafterthought]

Very interesting article, thanks port5900. Sounds like a better way to handle RAM and will probably be something that will be improved on in future OS's, though it's advantages on paper and in actual use probably differ quite a bit. The fact remains that Vista still USES more RAM though...

[Smith6612]

Hey, if you don't like Vista using RAM, shut off the advanced searching abilities and Aero. That'll free up loads of RAM for you, and again will be wasting RAM. My gaming computer starts Vista up in 20 seconds, and if it can boot that quickly over 2GB worth of programs, then there's no need for me to shut anything off. Besides, it runs crazy fast, so there's no need for me to even bother shutting stuff off. The CPU with Vista only runs at 5% usage when I'm using Vista, and when not doing anything, sits at 0% all the time.

[Pi606]

Hmm...from what I've seen, Vista's only good if your computer can handle it. I'm still running XP, but I have a Vista Skin for it.

[HomerJ]

Vista fills up the RAM for processes that you might start up later on. Free RAM is just a waste of RAM. This technique was taken from Linux . RAM really is cache and its job is to bring up processes to be used faster.

Think of it as the Pizza guy and the Chines guy standing at the corner of your block waiting for you to call, but they already have what ever you usually order fresh and warm waiting in the car. With XP the would have to cook the food and bring it over. get it?

" And the most important rule of cache design is that empty cache memory is wasted cache memory. Empty cache isn't doing you any good. It's expensive, high-speed memory sucking down power for zero benefit. The primary mission in the life of every cache is to populate itself as quickly as possible with the data that's most likely to be needed-- and to consistently deliver a high "hit rate" of needed data retrieved from the cache. Otherwise you're going straight to the hard drive, mister, and if you have to ask how much going to the hard drive will cost you in performance, you can't afford it."

This was taken from:http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000688.html
a must read for every computer person

Yeah, I know about caching, I just assumed that whatever was reporting RAM usage wasn't counting cached libraries. After all, cached RAM can easily be swapped out, it's essentially free, just not wasted.

[knightcon]

You can't compare Vista to any other operating as it is simply a new pice of software. Every piece of software on the market when it first came out had its share of teething problems. Vista is simply Microsofts attempt to completely rewrite how their O/S frameworks operate in an attempt to make the system look better and function better, taking advantage of new graphics and processor technologies. When XP first came out it was widly viewed as a terrible piece of software as people where used to using windows 98/me/2000. Vista will eventually gain general acceptance in the wider computer users community once most of the bugs and faults have been worked out, you just need to give it them time it needs to develop

[kkenny]

I saw an offer where you could get Vista for free if you gave up your privacy to microsoft for like 3 months.

I'd highly doubt that. Unless if the Vista was like trial software loaded or something.

[cybergig]

I'd highly doubt that. Unless if the Vista was like trial software loaded or something.

I doubt Micro**** would do something like that, THEY HAVE TO BE EXPENSIVE! Everything is about the money and ****ty coders for them.

[Jords]

No not really all you get is a better looking Desktop etc. and Direct X 10 and then it eats up a lot of Ram for that so I'm sticking with Windows XP.