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Originally Posted by darth sephiroth
etc on xp there is a constant MINIMUM of 80mb ram beeing used by windows, and i expect vista to be worse)
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I'm dual booting with Vista RC1 and Xp pro. Xp Pro uses about 150 megs of ram while idle(no programs running). Vista takes up about 450 megs idle!!! Yikes, I need more ram.
At a recent TS2 seminar I was told that 1 gig of ram would suffice for Vista, but 2 gigs was recommended.
My experience with RC1 is that it uses Dual Core's a lot better than Xp. Having a HD 1080p WMV video running in WMP11 and surfing the net while opening many windows was very smooth. The video didn't even flinch while I surfed/moved/opened/closed many windows. In Xp pro, it stuttered a bit, then smoothen out.
Haven't had the chance to run a lot of emulators, but I tried out Splinter Cell 3: CT and it ran fairly well. Probably as fast as on Xp pro. The only emulator I've tried is Mame32 and it ran fine.
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