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**hwm54112** · 05-31-2007, 11:47 PM

MS reccomends 1g, 512 is a stated minimum (at least on the home premium box). I upgraded to dual boot xp/vista over xp and upgraded to 2gig. Had to exchange the memory and ran Vista on 512 for two weeks. It was a bit sluggish but it ran with aero enabled and with all services and features running that Vista starts by default. Nothing in Home premium was disabled by default because memory was low. Boot up was not significantly slower than XP. Therefore, my guess would be that Pamela can run Vista basic with 512. Look at the box. Vista basic is very basic. As such, I don't think you can honestly compare Vista Basic's performance to Home Premium performance nor their respective hunger for resources. While it may not be comparing apples to oranges, comparing Basic to Premium is most assuredly comparing lemons to limes.

While I was dealing with my memory issues, I had occassion to run on 1g for a few days and as such i too did not find it slow. I wouldn't go back to less than 2 gigs now, but 1 gig is more than adeqaute.

To run a new computer for thirty minutes and decide to reformat is unrealistic. It takes several hours just to delete all the "bonus" offers and discover that UAC is a big performance hit. Not to mention the time it takes for the prefetch files to kick in. There's a bit more to this issue than just ram.

05-31-2007, 11:47 PM	#13 (permalink)
hwm54112 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2,233 OS: WINXP	Re: vista made my laptop slow. MS reccomends 1g, 512 is a stated minimum (at least on the home premium box). I upgraded to dual boot xp/vista over xp and upgraded to 2gig. Had to exchange the memory and ran Vista on 512 for two weeks. It was a bit sluggish but it ran with aero enabled and with all services and features running that Vista starts by default. Nothing in Home premium was disabled by default because memory was low. Boot up was not significantly slower than XP. Therefore, my guess would be that Pamela can run Vista basic with 512. Look at the box. Vista basic is very basic. As such, I don't think you can honestly compare Vista Basic's performance to Home Premium performance nor their respective hunger for resources. While it may not be comparing apples to oranges, comparing Basic to Premium is most assuredly comparing lemons to limes. While I was dealing with my memory issues, I had occassion to run on 1g for a few days and as such i too did not find it slow. I wouldn't go back to less than 2 gigs now, but 1 gig is more than adeqaute. To run a new computer for thirty minutes and decide to reformat is unrealistic. It takes several hours just to delete all the "bonus" offers and discover that UAC is a big performance hit. Not to mention the time it takes for the prefetch files to kick in. There's a bit more to this issue than just ram.