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Originally Posted by droopydrew19
vista just seems to be a resource hog. My older laptopwith 1 gig of ram zooms running xp compared to my new (faster processor) with 1.5 gigs of ram and vista.
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Yeah, and I bet your previous machines "zoomed" with Windows 98 compared to Windows 2000 when it came out. XP was famously "a hog" when it came out, too, compared to Win98 and Windows 2000.
Fact of the matter is that Vista is doing a lot more under the hood than any of the previous OSs did, the same as it's been with each generation.
BTW, it's the same for Macs, Leopard is undeniably fatter than Tiger, all you have to do is look at how much more it uses the swapfile, which is significantly more. The only real difference is that most Mac users already had a gig or more of RAM before they upgraded.
-Scott