i am using a computer that i built almost 3 years ago... it has an Intel 478 socket 2.8ghz, 512 ddr400 ram, and 128mb Radeon 9800 Pro ... i just installed Windows Vista a couple of days ago... i do occasional gaming, but 99% of the time, my computer is used for Internet, music, TV, and watching other videos... i don't really consider myself as a power user but i also don't like waiting on my computer... needless to say, with 512mb of ram, Vista was very slow... i can't even watch TV properly without the thing having to pause so often while the OS access the pagefiles...
i went out and bought an additional 1GB ram and that made everything better... everything seems instant now... after the initial loading on boot up, the OS doesn't really make me wait anymore...
my question is, i've been reading some reviews about Vista and some of them complain that the OS is still unbearably slow even with 1GB of ram and 256mb video card... i don't know if it's because most of these reviews are evaluating beta versions of the OS or if my expectations on how a PC should perform is just not as high as most of these reviewers'... because as i said, with my 1.5GB of ram and only 128mb of an older AGP ATI 9800 Pro, it seems like Vista is already fast (for what i use my computer for), and i can't imagine it being much more faster... so how come a lot of the reviewers are complaining about performance...? i read one who even said that he can't watch a video properly while he browse the Internet with 1gb of ram and 256mb video... i'm already doing those, plus more and have 3 different chat programs running and i don't experience any noticeable lag... i'm just wondering if there's really a big improvement between the beta versions and the final release...?
i went out and bought an additional 1GB ram and that made everything better... everything seems instant now... after the initial loading on boot up, the OS doesn't really make me wait anymore...
my question is, i've been reading some reviews about Vista and some of them complain that the OS is still unbearably slow even with 1GB of ram and 256mb video card... i don't know if it's because most of these reviews are evaluating beta versions of the OS or if my expectations on how a PC should perform is just not as high as most of these reviewers'... because as i said, with my 1.5GB of ram and only 128mb of an older AGP ATI 9800 Pro, it seems like Vista is already fast (for what i use my computer for), and i can't imagine it being much more faster... so how come a lot of the reviewers are complaining about performance...? i read one who even said that he can't watch a video properly while he browse the Internet with 1gb of ram and 256mb video... i'm already doing those, plus more and have 3 different chat programs running and i don't experience any noticeable lag... i'm just wondering if there's really a big improvement between the beta versions and the final release...?