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|  | Vista: Smoke and mirrors
For several months now, I have had Vista on a test bed PC, to test new drivers and to just slowly get to know it. To be honest, I found my knowledge about the new OS was limited and the brief amount of time I have spent on that test PC really wasn't increasing my knowledge. So last week I decided to set myself up with a Vista based PC for personal use and gaming. What I have discovered over the last couple of days is that it's a fairly stable operating system, but everything is re-arranged compared to XP. It's almost like Fiona came into my office and re-arranged everything on me and now I can't find things where I think they are supposed to be! The funny thing is that when I am not looking for things, I stumble across them in the weirdest places. The deeper I go into Vista, the more familiar it becomes. It is different, it is more system intensive, but all of the little things I am used to are still there - like having default icons on your desktop (like My Computer and My Documents).One of the most interesting things I have discovered concerns RAM quantity. In all of the documentation I have read, and written, Windows Vista officially supports 4GB RAM. So for this system, i thought I'd do some RAM testing with 4GB. To my horror, when I first installed the RAM, it only showed up as 3GB. Testing applications like CPU-Z however show 4GB. I have since discovered, although I do need to clarify this, that Windows Vista only supports a total of 4GB. This includes video card RAM. So it does support 4GB, but not in the way you might first think. Microsoft may have used creative marketing and some smoke and mirrors to market Vista to extreme enthusiasts. Now I have to do some testing to see if Windows really does have access to it and what difference it makes in performance to have 4GB over 2GB in Vista. |
Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2007.
Posted by fiona.
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