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There's about a gb more disk space usage in my case.
Haven't double checked shadow copies to see if that would make a diff - still, it won't be huge in my case.
Well whatever makes your boat float as they say. Personally, given the low cost of 4GB of DDR2, I would upgrade to 4GB even for XP much less Vista or W7 x64.
You know when I worked on cars a 289 had about the same performance as a 454 big block when they were both equipped with the same 2 barrel carburetor. Just my 2 cents.
Boot time, assuming it is not snail slow, is not a concern to me. Boot time is often more restricted by disk I/O performance than processor speed or OS overhead. Its pagefile usage and hard disk faults that kills real world efficiency.
I am running 8GB and after a few hours work W7 will easily have 3-4 GB of memory in standby. If I'm doing audio/video work it will be maxed out. Since I can't afford SSDs, yet, giving the superfetch plenty of room seems to be a good option for achieving quick response when switching between apps.
Also doing 8gb, but i have set pagefile off. But then again i tend to close/reopen app's a lot old habit from the times that running several apps at once gave a load of BSOD's.
My rig runs in principe 24/24/7 because i only go to sleep mode. So memory is always same state.
At best i get 70% memory usage.
Boot times on both systems (i gave them each a dedicated WDC500) is equally slow.
Returning from sleep is equally fast, < 1 sec.
Vista SP2 x64 is pretty damn solid. Not sure why you guys are having such problems.
I dont know about Vista SP2 personally but it was a dog without SPs last time I used it on a top of the line Dell XPS gaming laptop.
when it first came out it was pretty awful, only after SP1 came out i switched from XP x64.
SP2 made it as rocksolid as a general use OS can be.
7 is very decidely SP3, no matter the 'moisterizing cream with nanotechnology' like stories about a totally rebuild microkernel there may be.
But trying to pull a camper with a Smart is generally not a good idea, so you need good hardware to run either.