[geeks] Vista on a test PC

[Lionel Peterson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: "The Geeks List" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Vista on a test PC


> On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 03:33:43PM -0400, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> Intel Pentium 930 (dual 3.0 GHz CPU cores, each with 2 MB cache)
>> Supermicro PDSGE motherboard
>> ATI Radeon (ASUS clone) X300 128 Meg RAM PCI-Express video
>
> I'd put at 256M-or-greater card in there, myself.

No long-term plans, I'm gonna go with this for now...

>> Bill, was your problem *massive* slowness (in an SS/5-110 kind of way), 
>> or
>> in a "nat as snappy as I'd expect, but workable for some" kind of way???
>
> "Workable, but you can tell the OS eyecandy is taking up way too much CPU,
> and for someone used to XP, you can REALLY tell that this is a beta"

That's about what I'm seeing.

Thanks,

Lionel