ComputerWorld tells us all about their memory woes
Don't get me wrong, I hold the 512mb "minimum" ram requirement for Vista in about the same regards as the 128mb "minimum" ram requirement for XP. Sure, you can run it that way. You probably don't want to though... However, my argument is with the way this story was assembled, reported and used to portray Vista in no other way than in a negative light.
Here are my two faves:
The second wonderfully humorous part, bold is mine:
Wow! I'm so glad the guy who's annual bonus is entirely driven by the profitability of his equipment sales is telling me in an unbiased and professional way that I need all this extra hardware! That totally just drove it home for me!
Edit I'm hoping this is the right forum... If not, please feel free to drop-kick it into the proper location.
Don't get me wrong, I hold the 512mb "minimum" ram requirement for Vista in about the same regards as the 128mb "minimum" ram requirement for XP. Sure, you can run it that way. You probably don't want to though... However, my argument is with the way this story was assembled, reported and used to portray Vista in no other way than in a negative light.
Here are my two faves:
Yeah, and they were running it on a Pentium 66, with an S3 Virge DX for video, an SB Live ISA for audio, a 4Gb Western Digital 4200RPM drive with 256k in cache and a Zoom 56k modem. That 4Gb of ram made it fly!A Microsoft representative recently demonstrated Vista on a system with 4GB of system memory to some of its customers, and the performance was so impressive that it drew some "ohs and ahs" from the audience
The second wonderfully humorous part, bold is mine:
Mueez Deen, director of graphics memory and consumer DRAM at Samsung Electronics, also recommends 2GB of RAM, calling that amount the "optimal density for the complete Vista experience - economically and technologically."
Wow! I'm so glad the guy who's annual bonus is entirely driven by the profitability of his equipment sales is telling me in an unbiased and professional way that I need all this extra hardware! That totally just drove it home for me!
Edit I'm hoping this is the right forum... If not, please feel free to drop-kick it into the proper location.