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Windows Vista: A pre-beta 2 status report - TechAmok
Windows Vista: A pre-beta 2 status report - [briefly] 03:03 AM EDT - May,19 2006 - post a comment Windows
Vista is very impressive but it also has some serious problems that
Microsoft needs to address prior to release. How serious are the problems, read
the whole thing and decide for yourself:
- The bad news is that most motherboards stop at 4 gigabytes and each process
can only use up to 2 gigabytes of memory (3 with tweaking) unless they use AWE
(Address Windowing Extensions) which is not something most developers want to
get into. So why should you care? Because Windows Vista uses a lot more
memory than previous versions of Windows right now. 720 Megabytes are used on
a fresh boot (on my test box) vs. around 250 Megabytes on Windows XP. And
that's before third parties get their hands on it and put on their stuff. To be
fair, I could probably get this down to 500 megabytes with some power user
trimming (just as power users can get XP down to under 100 megabytes). But
you're talking about a lot of memory. For most people, tossing on 8 gigabytes of
memory onto their machine isn't an option. Going to 64-bit is the next step but
that may prove harder than most people think because many applications require
64-bit specific versions.
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