Same experience - RAM wise. Vista - One Gb at idle, XP Pro SP3 - 350Mb at idle.
The Vista sidebar isn't worth the difference. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce Markowitz To: [email protected] ; Aryeh Goretsky (home) Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 10:52 PM Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] 64 bit Vista Operating system and background programs use about 1.2GB of RAM when cold booted That's a SIN. There was a time when you could run Win98 on 64MB very nicely. Now it takes 1.2 gigs just to boot up. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
