Re: Intel rejects Vista, will stay with XP and wait for windows7

On Jun 26, 6:32 am, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bru...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Eeyore wrote:

Jan Panteltje wrote:

Intel rejects Vista, will stay with XP and wait for windows7

Why change from XP ever ?

More than 3GB RAM

If you have 4G Vista consumes an extra 1G of overhead, if you have 10G
it uses up 7G. It carefully makes sure you never come out ahead.



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Dirk

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