Windows Vista - Good, Bad or Downright Ugly?

SUBMAN1 · 02-15-08, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Tchocky

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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

I challenge someone to show me 'one' good thing that Vista does that XP doesn't do better. I have yet to find that one thing.

ReadyBoost?

Slow, unweildy, and possibly much much slower than virtual memory since my RAID at home can sustain 109 MB/sec (tested with Sandra) and the fastest flash drives (I have a Sandisk Cruiser titanium) sustain about 15 MB/sec. The only thing missing would be the clickity clack of the hard drive if you used Readyboost.

Maybe in the future this will be a good idea when flash memory and its USB interface goes faster than mechanical drives, but for the short term - its a major major major (did I emphasize that enough?) downgrade to using your hard drive instead.

-S

PS. A single normal generic 300 GB or so hard drive by the way can still sustain 40 to 50 MB/sec no problem.