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AF wrote:No modern PC should have 512MB or a single core processor. Vista was not optimized for single core cpus. All modern cpus have at last 2 cores or more, and if they don't then they're just ripping you off.

That machine should not have had Vista on it.

On top of that it had Vista basic which is rubbish. Do not get the basic edition.

And yes 2GB ram > 2Gb flash, I said that in a previous post.

It's a dirt-cheap laptop, it's fine with a single core.

How is Vista optimized for multiple cores? O_o

No it should not have had vista.

Vista basic may be rubbish, but it's not going to take any more ram is it?

So why did it run so much worse than XP on a far lesser computer?

Yes you said that ram was better than flash, but you also implied it was close. "Its not as good as DDR2 but it does the job a lot better than that page file." As far as how much you can actually run at once, 200MB ram is probably better than 2GB flash.

It's not as bad as you make out caydr. The PC gaming market is in large part refusing to shift towards vista... Sure, it's killing PC gaming in a way since huge sections of the market are shifting to console development, but on the bright side you probably won't be forced to upgrade to vista for PC gaming for the next 3 years.

Caydr wrote: I remember someone saying that crappy GF8 performance/compatibility was entirely Nvidia's fault recently.

According to NVIDIA's VISTA Hotfix Page two Updates were released by Microsoft:
Hotfix for GeForce customers:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938194 and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938979
These hotfixes improves the compatibility and reliability of Windows Vista.

After that there was a sentence which has vanished, and a new paragraph immediately above the quote.

However using that logic I can then say Windows 2000 and Windows XP were failed aborted children of ME.

ME was bad not because it served no purpose but because it was broken fundamentally. I dont mean compatability, but programs written for ME were incompatible with ME. the OS was just extremely buggy, nothing worked with it and it never liked to stay stable for any length of time and crashed more often than 95 and 98 combined x10.

Comparing vista to ME is like comparing a pebble to a vampire child of satan. How dare anybody try to make out that ME was so good?

i have a "rubbish single core" computer >:(

You're wrong, I'm tall.

I think you have Vista basic which is rubbish (Take a super expensive home cinema system and take out all the expensive flashy bits so the bare minimum features remain intact then sell it for $50,000 and you get Vista basic)

Dont stop embarrassing yourself AF. Really, some of this crap your saying is quoteably funny.

Wow! AF, watch this! http://www.icetruck.tv/index.php?id=1fd ... 106d6ca157

it is in autumn i buy a64 processor the that year they release duo core lol))))))))