I'd upgrade that ram ASAP. Vista works a lot better with 2 gigs of ram.
Really? It doesn't seem to be running slow at all, certainly better than XP did on my old computer. I'm sure that's because this one outclasses it by a lot but Vista's running great and I have no plans to install XP just to see how it runs. I do plan on upgrading the RAM as soon as I have the money, it'll be cool to see this run even better.
*loves his XP Home; will never relinquish it*
I really wasn't expecting to like Vista as much as I do, pretty much the same way I felt about XP when I bought my old computer, I had heard so many negative complaints about it but when I finally tried it I realized I couldn't ever go back to the unstable and crash-prone 98. I'm not saying I can't go back to XP though, I just like some aspects of this a lot more. Speaking of crash-prone, a certain poorly coded emulator crashes much more gracefully in Vista, it doesn't allow it to lock up my entire system like XP did half the time.
quoted for emphasis. anybody who switches from XP to (Hasta la) Vista (, Efficiency) is spending money on both the OS and the necessary hardware. such masochism.
Funny thing, buying this without an OS would have probably cost about the same price, I did some searching online. A Vista license alone is about half the cost of this computer, the only thing I can think of to explain that is they make up the cost in all the bloatware that comes preinstalled. I turned it on to make sure it worked, set up an account, and was getting bombarded with advertisements for programs as soon as it finished, my desktop wasn't even displayed yet. I just switched it off at that point and did a clean install of Vista, got rid of all that crap, I bet the majority of people would never do that and would probably sign up for half the garbage.
