Windows Vista Home Basic Performing Just Fine on 512 MB of RAM
October 7, 2007 by Milo Riano
Filed under Computers
It’s really good to read about people thinking of ways how to maximize Windows Vista and make them work.
PR-GB reports about installing Windows Vista Home Basic on a 2003 PC with 512 MB of RAM and says the end result is satisfying.
His results are:
* The system booted two seconds faster than it had with all that extra RAM. On average, Vista’s boot time was less than 30 seconds.
* Menus popped up instantly, with no lag or delay.
* My favorite DVD, Blade Runner, played flawlessly at full resolution, in surround sound. (I had to install a DVD decoder first – Vista Home Basic doesn’t include DVD playback capabilities out of the box.)
* I was able to rip a CD, check my Google Mail account on Mozilla Thunderbird, and play a full-screen slide show, all at the same time, without a single skip or hiccup.
* Even installing Norton Antivirus 2007 couldn’t slow things down. The Norton software added 7 seconds to my startup time, but after it loaded, everything worked exactly as expected.
This is the kind of mindset you would expect from IT managers working in an innovative, driven, and creative environment; not the kind of managers who bash nonstop.
Article found here.
Of course the big question is, so what? If you could run a FULL version of XP or a stripped down model of Vista, why would you run the stripped down version of the OS?
All the best security features of Vista (I said the best, not the most annoying, a la UAC), are not included with Home Basic, nor is the Media Center, so why bother?
Windows Vista is going to be the best OS ever one of these days.