Re: Deleting files in Vista... revisited

On Apr 2, 9:57 am, Steve Carroll <n...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <C235BADC.7C3A5%S...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,



Snit <S...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"John" <nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
H4WdnfDJmJOq8Y3bnZ2dnUVZ_v-tn...@xxxxxxxxxxxx on 4/1/07 7:35 PM:

This system? I doubt it. It's a 1.6 GHz Celeron M. :-)

Ok... the machine I have is a 1.73 GHz Celeron M... so *slightly* faster
chip. How much memory? I know Vista is a hog... and the machine I am
using
has only 512 MB Memory (shared!). It gets a whopping 2.0 on the "Windows
Experience Rating".

Only 512 Meg of RAM will cause Vista to stall under a variety of
conditions.

I suspect that is the primary problem with the machine... and common sense
*and* the Windows Experience Rating agree. Sad that they sell computers
with Vista on them with that little memory.

Sad? Why is it "sad" that a PC vendor will sell the minimum required
amount of RAM?

This isn't quite the same, but PC vendors used to sell XP machines
with 128MB of memory - 64MB more than the minimum, but still not
enough to have good performance and to keep XP from constantly paging
stuff. (Really. Try it. You'll be beating your head against the
wall in minutes.) New computer users wouldn't know this and would buy
128MB because it was cheap, then wonder why their brand new computer
was so slow. I don't think the problem with Vista and 512MB is to the
same degree, but it's the same idea.

Perhaps the buyer wants to put in his own 3rd party RAM
and doesn't want to pay the additional cost for more up front... only to
take it out and then load up with larger modules anyway. Having a choice
like this isn't "sad", and I'm glad that Apple has always done basically
the same thing.

Eh... I'm hard-pressed to think of a reason for doing that. Besides,
the type of people who want THAT much control are more likely to be
building their machine instead of buying a pre-built one.

.

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