Vista: uses tonnes of memory and CPU - why switch?

shaneblyth · Post by **shaneblyth** » Sun May 06, 2007 12:09 am

leedsquietman wrote:Dell and Apple computers at least here in Canada are not the same price for similar specs, expect to pay 30-40% more for an Apple computer.

When I bought my Inspiron 9100 in August 2004, I could have bought a G4 powerbook. Even though the powerbook was using the long in the tooth G4 processor, which the Dell's 3.2 Ghz P4 desktop chip slaughtered for performance, the powerbook cost nearly 400 dollars more, it had 512 MB less ram, only a 4200 rpm drive against a 7200 rpm drive, only ATI radeon 9600 64mb graphics against ATI radeon 9700 128 MB graphics, a 1024x768 screen resolution vs 1680x1050 on the dell. So ... less graphics, less memory, slower hd and 400 dollars more...guess which I bought. The powerbook was cool to look at, weighed less and had a longer battery time but they were not priorities for me.

I love Apple computers, I would readily upgrade to a Macbook Pro if they were 300-400 dollars cheaper.

I am in New Zealand and PC's are cheap as but I got a Macbook Pro 17" at a good price.. comparing all parts of the units that is... Apple should start selling notebooks without the extras like the camera, remote control and all that sort of stuff even drop ilife out of it.
dollar for dollar the extra software and bits like the remote do add up and it is hard to compare those accurately with PC as I am not too sure what units come with the remote for instance and nothing comes with a similar suite. Vista is kind of a cheap feature poor attempt at iLife but comparing it (I have XP and VIsta on my MacbookPro) I have noticed alot of features are missing.

littlepig · Post by **littlepig** » Sun May 06, 2007 5:14 pm

I just looked at vista pc in a shop. Not impresed, just looks like eye candy to me.

Still good for Billies bank balance. If only Live worked on linux!

shaneblyth · Post by **shaneblyth** » Sun May 06, 2007 9:05 pm

littlepig wrote:I just looked at vista pc in a shop. Not impresed, just looks like eye candy to me.

Still good for Billies bank balance. If only Live worked on linux!

Yes just read the last quarter reults for Microsoft you think they could start to give Vista away fro free just about not the crazy high price.
it was something like 7 bill clear profit for the quarter and the article (it was Paul Thurot and Windows weekly podcast. To compare he said Apple had a huge quarter but MS made that in 2 weeks ... It made all of starbucks profit in 4 days for the quarter ! some serious large amount of money eh.. PS I believe Dell is seriously looking at puting Linux Ubuntu as an option but yeah I wasa Linux guy but after years of trying to get audio to work I tried a mac and used that instead... maybe onday..

ewistrand · Post by **ewistrand** » Mon May 07, 2007 2:24 am

dan aktivix wrote:
"By contrast, Windows XP Professional requires only a 300-MHz processor, 128 Mbytes of RAM, and a 1.5-Gbyte disk."

Sure, you can get by on 128 MB- IF you don't mind being in your page file all day. The average XP install will chew up around 256 MB in background tasks alone. And, while you can run XP with a 300 MHz processor, you'd need lots of patience doing anything with it...

ew

alvaro · Post by **alvaro** » Mon May 07, 2007 8:46 am

By chance anyone knows when is m-audio going to release their 64-bit vista drivers?

I work with an firewire audiophile and would like to try vista.... but due to audio drivers lack i just cant even smell it

Vista: uses tonnes of memory and CPU - why switch?

Will you be switching to Vista?

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