XP and Vista

Rik · Aug 25, 2008, 11:33:32

Sensible girl.

Inactive · Aug 25, 2008, 11:36:05

Sebby · Aug 25, 2008, 11:37:16

Quote from: Rik on Aug 25, 2008, 11:33:32
Sensible girl.

Now who's living dangerously?

Rik · Aug 25, 2008, 11:43:07

At my age, I can afford to.

Noreen · Aug 25, 2008, 12:49:24

dlorde · Aug 25, 2008, 15:56:51

I have a desktop PC running XP and a recently bought laptop running Vista. I upped the memory on the laptop to 2 GB as I'd heard that Vista can be unacceptably slow with less.

However, given the choice, I'd ditch Vista and put XP on the laptop, because the Vista performance is so poor. I've turned off all the fancy Vista display features (Aero, sidebar, etc.) and anything else that seemed unnecessary and CPU-hungry, but it still runs like a sloth in treacle. Vista has a few features that are friendlier or more usable than XP, and a few that are worse, but the sluggish performance overshadows everything.

Apart from that, I've not had any significant software compatibility problems with Vista.

Sebby · Aug 25, 2008, 15:59:11

That's my experience of it, and the reason I wouldn't ever touch it again. Does your desktop have an AMD processor by any chance?

MoHux · Aug 26, 2008, 18:55:02

Quote from: Sebby on Aug 25, 2008, 15:59:11
That's my experience of it, and the reason I wouldn't ever touch it again. Does your desktop have an AMD processor by any chance?

Dunno 'bout the processor, but I bet it's running Norton!!

I have an AMD 2600+ ...... Vista and XP ...... and they are all fast!

Mo