Vista OS

Is bloated!

Vista set to swallow 800MB of RAM

Memory, disk space hungry

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30128

By Fuad Abazovic in Wien: Wednesday 08 March 2006, 12:08
A CHAP who managed to sneak a peek at the Vole's internal beta version 2
of Windows 53xx informed us that, even while idling, Vista eats as much
as 800Mb of system memory.

Yeah, we were shocked too, but you have to believe the screenshot below.

Memory manufacturers couldn't be happier about that, as it will make
people to go out and buy more memory. Our source reported that Vista
runs ok with 1024Mb of system memory but no-doubt 2048Mb would be much
better.

Vista won't install on FAT32 partitions, it only likes NTFS partitions.
We also know that the system performs quite well on an Athlon 4000+ and
a Geforce 7800 GTX 512 works just fine in the mix. Aero glass looks
good, we liked it when we first clapped eyes on Beta 1 version.

Vista occupies roughly three times more space than Windows XP. In fact,
it'll require up to a whopping seven gigabytes of drive space.

All credibility went out the window with the source of the report. The
Inquirer has been many times too wrong, they also contradict themselves, its
an internal build, not suppose to be in the public or even used by private
testers. That issue is probably fixed already.
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"nubian" <nubian@#.not> wrote in message news:dv1rdj$ii5$...
> Is bloated!
>
> Vista set to swallow 800MB of RAM
>
> Memory, disk space hungry
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30128
>
> By Fuad Abazovic in Wien: Wednesday 08 March 2006, 12:08
> A CHAP who managed to sneak a peek at the Vole's internal beta version 2
> of Windows 53xx informed us that, even while idling, Vista eats as much as
> 800Mb of system memory.
>
> Yeah, we were shocked too, but you have to believe the screenshot below.
>
> Memory manufacturers couldn't be happier about that, as it will make
> people to go out and buy more memory. Our source reported that Vista runs
> ok with 1024Mb of system memory but no-doubt 2048Mb would be much better.
>
> Vista won't install on FAT32 partitions, it only likes NTFS partitions. We
> also know that the system performs quite well on an Athlon 4000+ and a
> Geforce 7800 GTX 512 works just fine in the mix. Aero glass looks good, we
> liked it when we first clapped eyes on Beta 1 version.
>
> Vista occupies roughly three times more space than Windows XP. In fact,
> it'll require up to a whopping seven gigabytes of drive space.

Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote:
> All credibility went out the window with the source of the report. The
> Inquirer has been many times too wrong, they also contradict themselves, its
> an internal build, not suppose to be in the public or even used by private
> testers. That issue is probably fixed already.

Did you actually go to the link? Did you look at the screenshot? It
does not appear to have been doctored at all.

>
> "nubian" <nubian@#.not> wrote in message
> news:dv1rdj$ii5$...
> > Is bloated!
> >
> > Vista set to swallow 800MB of RAM
> >
> > Memory, disk space hungry
> >
> > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30128

nubian wrote:
| Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote:
|| All credibility went out the window with the source of the report. The
|| Inquirer has been many times too wrong, they also contradict themselves,
|| its an internal build, not suppose to be in the public or even used by
|| private testers. That issue is probably fixed already.
|
| Did you actually go to the link? Did you look at the screenshot? It
| does not appear to have been doctored at all.
|
||
|| "nubian" <nubian@#.not> wrote in message
|| news:dv1rdj$ii5$...
||| Is bloated!
|||
||| Vista set to swallow 800MB of RAM
|||
||| Memory, disk space hungry
|||
||| http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30128

I don't think nubian meant that The Inquirer actually doctored anything.
He's just mentioned that they've been known to be incorrect. As a matter of
fact the article is actually INCORRECT because the 800MB they are reporting
is PAGE FILE not RAM. The physical RAM usage looks to be about 404MB -
that's with 47 processes going.

And on top of that, what build etc. etc. did they install ?? I couldn't tell
from the theinquirer.net website. So then, their report is neither accurate
... nor likely really relevant to what probably will be known as the RTM
builds of Windows Vista. In other words, it's a little premature to go
screaming criticism about Vista performance, especially over some errant
theinquirer.net report.

---
Grok

What part of BETA don't they understand, BETA "under development, not
finished, not optimized, tons of internal tracking and verification code,
compiled for DEBUG, etc."



When it becomes late beta or RC then I guess you can look on memory
consumption :-)



But anyway, CPT Feb on my virtual machine, eats 300 MB ram, but I am ok with
the memory, I am a developer myself, and I have many situations when I can
write the code to run as fast as possible and use a bit more of memory, or
write the code to run a bit slower, and use almost no memory, not an easy
decision.



"nubian" <nubian@#.not> wrote in message news:dv1rdj$ii5$...
> Is bloated!
>
> Vista set to swallow 800MB of RAM
>
> Memory, disk space hungry
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30128
>
> By Fuad Abazovic in Wien: Wednesday 08 March 2006, 12:08
> A CHAP who managed to sneak a peek at the Vole's internal beta version 2
> of Windows 53xx informed us that, even while idling, Vista eats as much as
> 800Mb of system memory.
>
> Yeah, we were shocked too, but you have to believe the screenshot below.
>
> Memory manufacturers couldn't be happier about that, as it will make
> people to go out and buy more memory. Our source reported that Vista runs
> ok with 1024Mb of system memory but no-doubt 2048Mb would be much better.
>
> Vista won't install on FAT32 partitions, it only likes NTFS partitions. We
> also know that the system performs quite well on an Athlon 4000+ and a
> Geforce 7800 GTX 512 works just fine in the mix. Aero glass looks good, we
> liked it when we first clapped eyes on Beta 1 version.
>
> Vista occupies roughly three times more space than Windows XP. In fact,
> it'll require up to a whopping seven gigabytes of drive space.

Yes I know, look authentic, and so do super man, spider man, and the lord of
the rings :-)



"nubian" <nubian@#.not> wrote in message news:dv1upd$nud$...
> Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote:
>> All credibility went out the window with the source of the report. The
>> Inquirer has been many times too wrong, they also contradict themselves,
>> its an internal build, not suppose to be in the public or even used by
>> private testers. That issue is probably fixed already.
>
> Did you actually go to the link? Did you look at the screenshot? It does
> not appear to have been doctored at all.
>
> >
> > "nubian" <nubian@#.not> wrote in message
> > news:dv1rdj$ii5$...
> > > Is bloated!
> > >
> > > Vista set to swallow 800MB of RAM
> > >
> > > Memory, disk space hungry
> > >
> > > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30128

It's a waste of time looking at memory consumption and general
performance of pre-beta builds of Windows. The authors of the article
probably know that, but it's just general tabloid scare-mongering.

Pity on you.
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"nubian" <nubian@#.not> wrote in message news:dv1upd$nud$...
> Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote:
>> All credibility went out the window with the source of the report. The
>> Inquirer has been many times too wrong, they also contradict themselves,
>> its an internal build, not suppose to be in the public or even used by
>> private testers. That issue is probably fixed already.
>
> Did you actually go to the link? Did you look at the screenshot? It does
> not appear to have been doctored at all.
>
> >
> > "nubian" <nubian@#.not> wrote in message
> > news:dv1rdj$ii5$...
> > > Is bloated!
> > >
> > > Vista set to swallow 800MB of RAM
> > >
> > > Memory, disk space hungry
> > >
> > > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30128

"T" <T@T> wrote in message news:u%...
> Yes I know, look authentic, and so do super man, spider man, and the lord
> of the rings :-)

You mean they're NOT real? OMG! 8^)

Tom Lake

It runs ok in 512 MB. I'm running it now and answering dear user that
believes everything he reads.

Slbert

"nubian" <nubian@#.not> wrote in message news:dv1upd$nud$...
> Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote:
>> All credibility went out the window with the source of the report. The
>> Inquirer has been many times too wrong, they also contradict themselves,
>> its an internal build, not suppose to be in the public or even used by
>> private testers. That issue is probably fixed already.
>
> Did you actually go to the link? Did you look at the screenshot? It does
> not appear to have been doctored at all.
>
> >
> > "nubian" <nubian@#.not> wrote in message
> > news:dv1rdj$ii5$...
> > > Is bloated!
> > >
> > > Vista set to swallow 800MB of RAM
> > >
> > > Memory, disk space hungry
> > >
> > > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30128