irobot1959 wrote:
> 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??


No smoke, he is correct, it HAS to be slower than XP on the same
hardware because of the extra "Layers" of abstraction and the fact that
Vista was programmed in a language that generates a higher processing
overhead.

Also, 1GB of RAM for Vista is roughly equivalent to 256MB in XP, so if
that's what's in it you might see some improvement with 2GB, but still
not as fast as XP.

And yes MS have said that.

And you're now thinking WTF and so are some of us :)

In some ways it will turn out to be a better OS I think but not yet and
not on 32 bit hardware.