Vaj wrote:
>
> On Jan 18, 2007, at 11:31 AM, suziezuzie wrote:
>
>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/17992/page1/
>>>
>>> "My efforts to get Media Center working highlighted two big
>> problems
>>> with Vista. First, it's a memory hog. The hundreds of new
>> features
>>> jammed into it have made it a prime example of software bloat,
>>> perhaps the quintessence of programmer Niklaus Wirth's law that
>>> software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster (for more
>> on
>>> the problems with software design that lead to bloat,
>> see "Anything
>>> You Can Do, I Can Do Meta," p. 36). Although my computer meets
>> the
>>> minimum requirements of a "Vista Premium Ready PC," with one
>> gigabyte
>>> of RAM, I could run only a few simple programs, such as a Web
>> browser
>>> and word processor, without running out of memory. I couldn't
>> even
>>> watch a movie: Windows Media Player could read the contents of
>> the
>>> DVD, but there wasn't enough memory to actually play it. In
>> short,
>>> you need a hell of a computer just to run this OS."
>>
>> Fill your memory up to it's limit. If you can get 4 gigs of mem.
>> into your computer, go for it. Mark
>
>
> I was worried this might be the case. I'll stick with XP for now.
I'll only get a Vista machine if I have to (ie a project requires it).
I've 3 machines with XP and those will remain XP. But I am doing more
and more with Linux.
