[Info-vax] Some good news !

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Steven Underwood wrote:
> 
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> I have heard nothing about Vista that would make me want to upgrade.  
>> If and when I get a new PC, I may very well just install W/XP on it!
> 
> I agree there is nothing to cause me to upgrade from XP on my other 
> machines, but Apple advertisements not withstanding, I have not seen any 
> major problems with Vista on machines designed for it.  I got my laptop 
> with my new job with Vista Ultimate, and other than needing to max out 
> the memory to get better than OK performance, I have had no issues at 
> all with it. IMO, Microsoft's mistake was in setting the required memory 
> value too low. 2 GB should have been minimum with 4 GB recommended.
> 

Talk about software bloat!!  My W/XP system runs quite happily in one 
GB.   My wife's PC has less memory, I think, and it also runs W/XP 
without problems.