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Crapiness?

I was just commenting on the fact that it requires a lot of resources out of the box (compared to XP), and on general resource-wasting by software (any) because of cheap hardware. I love Vista myself. I've been using it for a little over a year with next to no problems (I'm just apparently stuck with an older Nvidia driver, since all new versions seem to crash my desktop machine - laptop is fine with newer versions.) But that's a Nvidia issue, can't blame the OS (I had the same problem with XP - had to stick with an older driver.) I had a lot more stability problems with XP (with less software installed) than I've had with Vista - it's rock solid so far. As a bonus, it doesn't look like crap (I always hate the XP interface.)

I'm not running Vista as a server, I just happen to have database, web and source control server software installed on it for development purpose. If I want to develop off an Oracle or SQL Server database, I need the software on my machine (they're both the Express editions, of course, no need for more at home.) It's not "serving" any other machine (well, the source control server can be accessed from my laptop.) If I ever want to run a full blown server, I'll get Windows Server 2008 (which is based on Vista, if I'm not mistaken.)

In fact you completely misread my comment. I was saying that despite having all that stuff running on my machine, my RAM usage was lower than the other poster's (the guy I replied to above.) When I have all server services enabled and a few other programs running all at once, I only get close to 1.3Gb RAM used, and the system is just as responsive as when I stop all server services.

Posted by: Mike (not Cox)   Posted on: 06/01/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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