Windows Vista
 

Just downloaded the beta of Windows Vista, and am in the process of getting a seperate box up to run it. Anyone else out there play with it yet? Just thought I would get a little discussion going...

Re: Windows Vista
 

Played with prior releases to the Public one....

Re: Windows Vista
 

I've been messing with it on a couple of boxes here. So far, it's performing as advertised. No major issues to speak of...it hasn't even BSOD'd on me once yet.

The Nvidia Vista drivers are junk though....they've hobbled all the advanced/hardware features. (and now the fan runs at 100% all the time)

Re: Windows Vista
 

Is it as resource hungy as MS is making it out to be? The minimum specs are pretty crazy for an OS...

Re: Windows Vista
 

On the current test rig it's using about 700mb of ram. That's full eye-candy on, sidebar, aero, every pretty-but-useless option turned all the way up. Dropping it down to "Windows Classic" and killing all the extras only saves you about 50mb of ram load. It's advertised memory management imporovements do seem to be working...it does seems to get out of the way pretty smoothly when loading up a ram intensive app. And oddly, losing the eye-candy actually makes it "feel" slower on this machine. Haven't benchmarked anything to see if that's really true or not. This is a pretty middle of the road system: Celly D 2.66, only a gig of ram, and a 6600gt.

Disk-space wise the default Windows install fills about 7 gigs.