[lug] Linux for Dad

[Zan Lynx]

Nate Duehr wrote:

> Vista/New Office has very little "traction" in the corporate environment
> right now.   Maybe later it'll be "forced" by Microsoft, and they won't
> have a choice... but the 20-30% performance decrease of Vista on the
> same hardware running the same applications (well documented now) isn't
> exactly endearing it to IT managers with real-world budgets... new
> hardware every few years isn't as likely as it was a few years ago...
> especially as they start to get some real data on ROI.
20-30% performance hit?  Running what?

That *has* to be in cases where the extra memory usage of Vista pushes a
marginal program over into virtual memory or where the extra GPU virtual
memory usage in 32-bit Vista causes virtual memory alloc problems.
There is nothing else that would cause a hit of that magnitude.

One is fixed by adding more RAM (or disabling Aero and some services)
and the other by running 64-bit Vista, the way it was intended to be run.

Just pointing this out so everyone doesn't go away believing Vista is
*that* much of a dog.  It's quite nice.  Really.