The Vista Experience...

[Tony Scharf]

My wife has vista with 3gb of RAM installed.  Unless you go with X64,
I believe your still limited to 2gb on XP.

Also, there are differences in how the scheduler works in vista that
optimizes it to working with multiple cores.  As I understand it, the
Vista scheduler is aware of each core independently, and can make sure
that a single thread stays on the same core each time it needs time,
where as XP sees that you have multiple cores, but allows for
situations to arise where it will move a process from one core to the
other reducing performance (I am sure the brains on the list will
correct me if I am wrong).

I find it funny how XP was evil when Win2k was being replaced, and now
XP is good and Vista is Evil.  I think people are just in the habit of
hating anything microsoft does without doing any kind of evaluation
first.  Ill admit some guilt there too..

My wife has Vista Ultimate on her new desktop she uses for her graphic
design work.  Photoshop absolutely flies on the thing, and its been
rock solid since we bought it 3 months ago (everquest II crashes it,
but everquest II has a lot of known memory leaks that sony refuses to
patch).

The only reason *I* havnt moved to vista, is I am (wishfully) waiting
for the move to 64 bit applications for music.  It could be a while.

Tony

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:32 PM, The Dong <dong at f2s.com> wrote:
> I think this is less a Vista experience thing and more a Quad core +
> fast GPU thing. I'd imagine XP would run like a Ferrero Rocher' too,
> maybe even more chocolatey ;)
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