 Windows Long Horn?, dunno...its wut i hear |
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 Dec 12 2004, 12:44 PM
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Premium Member  Group: Members Posts: 158 Joined: 5-December 04 From: Canada Member No.: 2,567  |
QUOTE(OpaQue @ Dec 7 2004, 03:23 PM) I hope you are in your senses, I install windows and check my ram indicator! daMN.. I was wondering where did my 160 mb go. So windows XP does take a *BLEEP* load of resources. And it is a general rule that as operating system progress, they do take increased amount of resources. But they also give that much of stability, reliability, performance etc. in return. Don't believe me, Start off with DOS to Windows XP and see for yourself.  Cant compare that, DOS has no gui or anything, so of course it wont be any such thing as a memory hog. Also, if you know how to tweak xp then you wont be losing much memory at all, my system gennerally uses ~60mb ram, but now that I am using IIS for web development and testing my scripts well i us about 70-80 on average. Just disable all services you dont need and eliminate crap out of the task bar... very simple. For anyone wishing to tweak xp, i HIGHLY reccomend www.blackviper.com he has a sweet list telling you what you can disable and explaining what it does and why you wouldnt need it 
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Dec 12 2004, 03:58 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 240 Joined: 11-October 04 From: California Member No.: 1,683 |
I wouln't be surprized if the retail version of longhorn does take at least 128mb RAM to run properly, even without all those new fancy menu bars and eye candy.
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Dec 12 2004, 04:43 PM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 773 Joined: 4-November 04 Member No.: 2,118 |
XP already runs like *BLEEP* on 128mb of memory. On XP you need atleast 196mb to run without always swapping to the hard drive. I suspect long horn will be the same if not more. Has anyone actually tried long horn yet? I was going to donwload it but didn't want to put it on my computer because it is probably more buggy than XP.
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Dec 12 2004, 08:45 PM
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Member [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 65 Joined: 9-December 04 From: 65201, USA Member No.: 2,634 |
I have used Longhorn build 4074. I wasn't too impressed, but it is still in beta... WinFS should be a nice improvement.
For your Longhorn Needs: Windows SuperSite |
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Dec 13 2004, 06:20 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 158 Joined: 2-December 04 Member No.: 2,512 |
Until 2006 we can't say if is good or not
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Dec 14 2004, 04:22 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 204 Joined: 6-October 04 From: London, uk Member No.: 1,444 |
has anybody got a screenshot of it?
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Dec 15 2004, 12:51 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 140 Joined: 7-December 04 From: San Fran Member No.: 2,593 |
QUOTE(joshua132 @ Dec 12 2004, 12:45 PM) I have used Longhorn build 4074. I wasn't too impressed, but it is still in beta... WinFS should be a nice improvement. For your Longhorn Needs: Windows SuperSite krap.................... read god dammit QUOTE(krap @ Dec 14 2004, 08:22 AM) has anybody got a screenshot of it? scroll donw until u see gallery or w/e its a bunch of links |
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Dec 15 2004, 05:27 PM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 18 Joined: 15-December 04 Member No.: 2,737 |
Firstly - Longhorn comes with new PCs due to its anti piracy interogration, you cant do anything illegal on it, allthough im sure there will be holes and people who will crack it all.
Secondly - Of course its going to hog more ram, if it didn't you wouldnt need to go buy ram 
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Jan 26 2005, 04:52 AM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 183 Joined: 14-July 04 From: United States/Illinois Member No.: 95 |
I have tried all the longhorns. But it has way to many bigs to try now so i dont suggest just any old person to just go and mess with it unless you just want to look on how it looks like. Most programs are not able to be installed yet either. So just get a transformation pack and style xp to transform the looks into it.
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