Saturday, 3 October 2009

Windows 7 Feature #3 – Small Memory Footprint

Windows Vista was a dog, but it never so obvious until it was compared side by side to Windows 7. Vista was slow and a memory hog. Microsoft has done lot of work on getting Windows 7 right and it was obvious right from the beta.

imageMy scenario is a common case. My main laptop, a ThinkPad T60, Core 2 Duo, 2gb, is fairly a fairly new computer in the Vista lifecycle.

On this computer, a fresh install of Windows Vista would use approx 1.5gb of RAM after booting up.

A fresh install of Windows 7 (beta) would only take 640mb. Huge Improvement, that can be seen in almost all aspects of computer use.

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