Windows Vista with 1Gb Memory -- A Satisfactory Experience?

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A question for those now testing Windows Vista -- is 1 Gb of memory
enough to give a satisfactory experience? Should I upgrade to 2 Gb?
Thanks for your thoughts.
Yasser
 
Yasser said:
A question for those now testing Windows Vista -- is 1 Gb of memory
enough to give a satisfactory experience? Should I upgrade to 2 Gb?
Thanks for your thoughts.
Yasser
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It is urrently satisfactory for a beta OS. It is not satisfactory for a
production OS. If it will be satifactory for a production OS only time will
tell. It is getting better as the RTM gets closer.
 
Yasser Dotsmah Beh-Beh said:
A question for those now testing Windows Vista -- is 1 Gb of memory
enough to give a satisfactory experience? Should I upgrade to 2 Gb?
Thanks for your thoughts.
Yasser
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1GB is enough. But 2GB would make the "experience" better. :-)

If you can afford it, then do it.


-Michael
 
Yasser Dotsmah Beh-Beh said:
A question for those now testing Windows Vista -- is 1 Gb of memory
enough to give a satisfactory experience? Should I upgrade to 2 Gb?
Thanks for your thoughts.
Yasser
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Because the beta is the Ultimate edition of Vista, 1GB of Ram is around the
minimum needed, so I agree with Michael, spend the $50.00 on some RAM. The
worst thing that happens is, no mater what O/S you are running, it will un a
little faster.
 
I take the Mark Minasi approach to ram: If you turn on the machine and the
lights don't dim, add memory.
 
Yasser said:
A question for those now testing Windows Vista -- is 1 Gb of memory
enough to give a satisfactory experience? Should I upgrade to 2 Gb?
Thanks for your thoughts.
Yasser
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1GB is fine for me, but YMMV according to the applications and hardware
drivers you use.
 
Yasser Dotsmah Beh-Beh said:
A question for those now testing Windows Vista -- is 1 Gb of memory
enough to give a satisfactory experience? Should I upgrade to 2 Gb?
Thanks for your thoughts.
Yasser
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Yes, but more is better.
 
First, what you mean by turn on PC, lights don't dim etc...???

Second, I believe 1GB is fine for Vista, but Vista is currently only beta,
so I think 512mb would be just as fine once it becomes more stable and less
ram hogging
 
It means if you haven't maxed out the house current, throw more ram in the
box. In other words, there is no downside to adding memory.
 
I agree.

I've installed it on systems with anywhere from 512meg to 2.5gig ram.

It'll all depend on your usage of your system.

As others have pointed out, more is better.

One thing to consider though is, how many slots does your MB have for
memory.?? 2? 4? 6?

Whatever it happens to be, I would reccomend going with 1gig for now, but
make sure to leave empty slots for expanding to more memory somewhere down
the line.

In otherwords, if for example your MB has 4 slots for ram, don't buy 4
pieces of 256 because that would leave no room for expansion. Buy 2 pieces
of 512, leaving the other two slots open for future upgrades. Otherwise if
you had bought 4 pieces of 256, and you decide you want more, then you'd
have to throw out all 4 pieces of the 256 sticks and replace them with
something bigger.
 
A question for those now testing Windows Vista -- is 1 Gb of memory
enough to give a satisfactory experience? Should I upgrade to 2 Gb?
Thanks for your thoughts.
Yasser
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Yes, 1 GB is enough to run the Vista Beta 2 and have a good experience.
You could then plan on adding the second gig when you install the retail
release. Of course there is absolutely nothing wrong with just starting
with 2 GB now. Especially if you want to test some of your games under
Vista Beta 2.
 
Yes and yes.

Yes, it is enough. Yes to upgrading to two gigs as more RAM is better
[people say that about RAM].
 
I agree, if you don't dim your house lights and those of your neighbors, add
more RAM. Personally, I'm running 3Gb of DDR2 in dual channel mode.
 
One thing to consider though is, how many slots does your MB have for
memory.?? 2? 4? 6?
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That's exactly the problem. I have an AMD64 socket 754 system
(single channel memory) with only 2 memory slots and one slot has a
512 meg stick of ram in it. If I upgrade to 1 gig then I only have to
add another 512. If I go to 2 gig, then I have to replace the whole
bunch and 2 gigs is kind of pricey right now.
Of necessity, my computing is on a budget. Right now, this computer
is screaming along running W98SE (Why upgrade the OS if it: 1. runs
all your programs and 2. you can still get the security patches?).
But now, the security patches have stopped for W98 and I'm forced to
upgrade -- I guess I'll wait for Vista rather than get a copy of XP.
I just don't want to go back to a sluggish, slothful, torpid or
hebetudinous computing experience.
Right now, it looks like it's gonna be 1 gig for me.

Thanks to all who replied,

Yasser
 
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