Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]
What? It needs 2GB? Surely not - it's pretty much built from the Vista code. Maybe if Microsoft went about getting rid of old legacy crap that 98% of the population bothers with anymore and introducing newer features we might have a faster operating system on our hands.
Vista is a system hog, but if you're clever you can minimise that hogging of resources: turn sidebar off, turn off a few unnecessary system services and generally stopping crap starting up when Vista boots, is the best way to optimise it.
I currently run a 3GHz Intel Celeron (!), 1GB RAM and 7300GT video card and it runs nicely enough on most stuff.
No, I mean the MSR for RAM is up from 512 MB to 1GB.