Vista With 2 Gigs Of RAM

Windows new Operating System Vista set for release in January 2007 may need double the RAM that Microsoft recommends, a Dell executive said earlier this morning.

In a speech at Shanghai’s Jiaotong University, Dell chief executive Kevin Rollins told Bloomberg News:

I think they tell you maybe 1 gig [gigabyte] of memory is okay. No. Two gigs of memory would be great.

According to Microsoft’s Vista Web site, they recommend 1 GB of RAM for running the operating system’s touted Aero interface. The minimum system requirements, however, claim that 512 MB of memory will be sufficient.

We’ve heard things like this before with Windows XP. They claimed it could run on 256 MB of RAM, which technically it does but it’s so slow and choppy. I tell everyone who wants to run Windows XP to have at least 512 MB but 1 GB would be much better.

Personally I run 2 GB of RAM on my laptop and 1 GB on my desktop. Feel free to check out my detailed system specifications for more information.

According to a September 2006 report by Citigroup Inc., the average amount of memory installed on new computers is 750 MB which is a nice amount of RAM for most applications. If you do a lot of Photoshop work like I do, the more RAM you have the better.

Microsoft has said as recently as this week that Windows Vista remains on track for delivery to volume license customers next month and to the retail channel and end-users in January 2007. We shall see.

I’m sticking with Windows XP Professional for a while until all the bugs get worked out with Vista.

October 27, 2006 · Filed Under News Room, Technology

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3 Responses to “Vista With 2 Gigs Of RAM”

  1. Thilak on October 28th, 2006 3:47 am

    I have 1 GB of RAM, looks like I need 1 more GB :(

    Anyway, I’ll stick on to XP or OSX

  2. Sean on October 28th, 2006 9:00 am

    Hello Thilak.

    1 GB of RAM is pretty good and I agree sticking with XP or OSX.

  3. Jeremy Wright on October 30th, 2006 3:56 pm

    I’ve run Vista on Laptops from 256MB to 2GB. 2GB’s better, sure, but it runs alright with differing versions.

    The reality is that since Win95, each version of Windows has run better than the last with less-than-ideal RAM.

    And Vista’s a *lot* better, as it turns off a whole slew of things automagically, which means it’s not a linear graph from 256MB-2GB in terms of performance increases (or vice versa, from 2GB down to 256MB).

    Still, I’d really only run Vista with 2GB, so the Dell guy’s right. But anyone who’s run Vista on a machine with a 2.0GHz processor and 512MB of RAM will tell you it runs fine :)

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