[Info-vax] Some good news !

[Arne Vajhøj]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> 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.

And?

2 GB cheap memory (DDR2 dual channel PC6400) costs around 20-30 dollars.
And 4 GB of the same 30-40 dollars.

HW evolves.

1 MB - 4 MB - 32 MB - 512 MB - 2 GB - 8 GB - ....

I don't see any reason why that trend should stop at 1 GB.

Arne