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Post by GhostLiger on Oct 22, 2009 13:26:35 GMT -5
Well, I gotta admit, for all the crap I've heard about Vista, I'm not actually finding it too bad! Yeah you're not going to have such a bad deal with Vista if you don't use huge programs or huge file sizes. Vista's flaw is that it doesn't distribute RAM good at all. Having 2 video cards and at least 4G of RAM makes Vista fine though for the bigger programs. It depends what you define as a huge program. I use CS2 without much trouble so I'm happy. The problem I'm having though, is with this latest version of firefox. Even though it still has tabbed browsing, it apparently counts each tab as a seperate window, so having 2 or 3 tabs open is like having 2 or 3 windows open. Although, there's something to be said for using CCleaner and Auslogic Disk Defrag regularly. |
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Post by Blaze on Oct 22, 2009 14:45:01 GMT -5
Any of the CS4 programs kill XD; Then having msn instant messenger, a CS4 program, and a media player open at the same time kills... froze the vista computer at home plenty of times.
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Post by Comrade itman496 on Oct 23, 2009 5:54:43 GMT -5
my computer rarely freezes, and when it does, it DOES! XD
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Post by Comrade Tilly on Oct 23, 2009 7:46:08 GMT -5
...four gigs? Whut. I have two and that seems plenty...then again, no Vista. I usually have open...uh. 30+ tabs worth of Firefox, a media player or two (sometimes playing 720p video, at that), 10+ text files in three gedit windows, OpenOffice Writer, 3+ Nautilus windows (it's like file explorer thingy in Windows), Tomboy Notes, a least one Terminal window (sometimes downloading/uploading), Pidgin...
I can open and use GIMP without running out of memory. I can't speak for the pig that is CS$number Photoshop, but Elements opens okay too. So do video editors, large images. The only real fail/lag comes from my slow hard drive. Please get cheaper faster, SSDs ;_;.
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Post by Comrade itman496 on Oct 23, 2009 15:28:08 GMT -5
I disagree with that 4 gig and two vid card rule... before I upgraded a few months ago, I was happily running vista on a single vid card, duel screens, and 2 gigs of ram, as well as a 2.2 duel core. Vista takes up a lot of system resources, but not THAT much XD
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Post by Blaze on Oct 24, 2009 11:45:48 GMT -5
I disagree with that 4 gig and two vid card rule... before I upgraded a few months ago, I was happily running vista on a single vid card, duel screens, and 2 gigs of ram, as well as a 2.2 duel core. Vista takes up a lot of system resources, but not THAT much XD "Having 2 video cards and at least 4G of RAM makes Vista fine though for the bigger programs and files." "BIGGER PROGRAMS AND FILES" not as a general rule for everyone who has Vista. READ CAREFULLY! XD I'm saying you only need more depending on your programs. You're not running 2 100+ MB files on photoshop at the same time like I do that makes compys crash and lag like crazy. Even the macs at school sometimes lag with those files. |
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Post by Comrade itman496 on Oct 24, 2009 12:08:32 GMT -5
oh XD well I dun think vista is the problem with that, I don't think XP would like that either XD I'm sure linux would, though
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Post by Blaze on Oct 24, 2009 12:23:14 GMT -5
There isn't a problem. Saying you just generally need more of whatever depending on what you do.
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Post by Comrade itman496 on Oct 24, 2009 13:05:49 GMT -5
^^; vista manages ram better when it has a freaking lot of it. 1 gig of ram would be better for XP, but having 4 gigs is better for vista, since it caches and shuffles stuff around, which doesn't really work well for small amounts of ram ^^; you do have a point.
However the 2 graphics card thing is way off, the only reason I have 2 is because my main one does not have enough ports for 3 screens ^^;
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Post by Comrade starlithalo on Oct 24, 2009 13:56:28 GMT -5
However the 2 graphics card thing is way off, the only reason I have 2 is because my main one does not have enough ports for 3 screens ^^; I have never figured out why anyone would use more than one screen. But as far as my computer goes.. I have an Acer Aspire (dual core processor, 358MB video card, and 250GB HDD) that runs off of Vista and the only time that it lags is whenever I'm torrenting something and playing my Xbox at the same time (I have to connect my Xbox Live up to the internet by plugging an Ethernet cord into my laptop) other than that I've never really had problems. Hm |
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Post by Comrade itman496 on Oct 24, 2009 14:04:04 GMT -5
multi-screens is great when you can't afford one big, high res screen. and it makes everything so organized. Like, for example, I can have instant messengers on the right, photoshop or a game on the center, and internet on the left. Its very VERY useful for multitasking, and as long as you don't do anything too extreme, most small laptops can even do it well
EDIT: Dont take what I said before like I am being self centered, I was using a 35 dollar crap video card, and it ran vista fine... ^^;
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Post by GhostLiger on Oct 24, 2009 15:04:32 GMT -5
multi-screens is great when you can't afford one big, high res screen. and it makes everything so organized. Like, for example, I can have instant messengers on the right, photoshop or a game on the center, and internet on the left. Its very VERY useful for multitasking, and as long as you don't do anything too extreme, most small laptops can even do it well EDIT: Dont take what I said before like I am being self centered, I was using a 35 dollar crap video card, and it ran vista fine... ^^; I can see where multi monitors would come in handy, but I'm happy with one... multi monitors take up too much space. |
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Post by Comrade itman496 on Oct 24, 2009 15:53:03 GMT -5
I was happy with one until I got 2, and then I could never turn back XD
and I'll admit, they do take up lots o' room. 2 LCD's and a CRT take up my entire 'main desk' (6 feet by 3 feet) ^^; so I had to get a second desk and use that for everything else ^^; L shape desk ftw
but for people with single monitors, DO NOT GO MULTI! its like a drug, and it only gets worse and more expensive/space using/computer stressing XD
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Post by Comrade Tilly on Oct 24, 2009 17:18:43 GMT -5
Though I will admit to wanting dual screens next time I get a desktop, virtual desktops don't require any extra space or graphics card-fu.
Mmm, virtual desktops.
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Post by Comrade itman496 on Oct 24, 2009 18:13:45 GMT -5
oh yeah, I love virtual desktops ^^
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