Well, you haven't told us much about the System like Specs, installed
software. Insufficient memory, Norton Antivirus are factors that can affect
your experience on Windows Vista. Vista is not the largest OS in the world.
Mac OS X Leopard which will be released on October 26th 2007 uses 12 GBs of
disk space.
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Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"irobot1959" <irobot1959@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F81B47D0-2BDD-4271-8988-832839446E60@microsoft.com...
>I was considering buying a new compaq laptop but before I did I went to a
> rent 2 own place to check one out with the new O.S. Vista. I rented it
> for
> one week and right off the bat I thought for a brand new computer with
> more
> than enough ram and more than enough on the hard drive was running slow,
> slower than my desktop pc with XP and a couple years older. I asked the
> dealer about this and after calling someone in their service dept. I was
> told
> that it is because Vista is larger than any other O.S. before and there
> was
> nothing to do about it and microsoft actually confirmed this before Vista
> even came out. Is this place blowing smoke up my arse which I believe
> they
> are or what. The laptop I checked out was brand new out of the box. I
> was
> the first user on it so what say you??