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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anusha" data-source="post: 96899" data-attributes="member: 828">Well, that's old news. What's new is that I already downloaded it and installed it.It's beautiful of course, but not as fast as XP. However, it will have a feature called superfetch which will monitor what we do and tune up Vista after a week to suit the users' usage patterns. Say we use Windows Media Player 11 a lot. After the tune up, it will startup super fast because all the files that it needs will be automatically loaded into RAM even before we load it. People might think it will waste a lot of RAM by this method, but you will be amazed to see that even a PC that has 4GB RAM will not have a single MB of physical RAM left after few minutes. Vista will free up them when a new program needs it. It doesn't page them because there are not related to work that is done right now. It will simply flush those data and make room for new ones. But for best experience, 2GB is highly recommended. However, gaming performance sucks. I'm hope it's a problem with ATI and nVIDIA drivers which are still farther from being final ones. They had to rewrite the drivers from the scratch because Vista's way of treating video cards have changed from good old days. Vista is almost like a game now. It runs on DirectX. But it doesn't mean you need the fastest video card out there. If I recall correctly, you need a DirectX 9 supported graphics card get all the nice GUI effects in Vista. No need for DirectX 10 hardware. Not only gaming performance is not as good as XP, but sometimes Vista GUI becomes unresponsible while the operating system is still working. I hope this is also a driver issue.Even in this final build, it takes a lot longer than XP to shutdown. I can shutdown XP and boot back into XP, while Vista is still shutting down.Still there are incompatibilities. Maybe when Vista launches itself to the public, the software companies will have fully compatible software. This is the only reason I see why Microsoft is holding off the release to the public until January 30th.</blockquote>

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