DaveGoTech
Programmer
Hi
My friend ordered and received a new Dell with Vista. As I recall it was a core 2 duo, 2GHz I think. I told him to make sure he got plenty of RAM - 4GB and he did. When it came in, he asked me to come over and set it up (something he has asked me to do for all his PC's over the past 15 years).
I set everything up, installed and configured his software and restored the data. Everything went well and I left. But I was extremely disappointed in the poor performance of Vista. The machine was very sluggish and anemic compared to my old Win XP machine. I know Vista is vastly larger and more complicated than XP, so what is needed to improve performance in case I decide to purchase a new PC? I was thinking a 4 way processor. This might help, but is the Windows Vista license only for 2 PC's? Or maybe I should just stick with XP on my next computer.
My friend ordered and received a new Dell with Vista. As I recall it was a core 2 duo, 2GHz I think. I told him to make sure he got plenty of RAM - 4GB and he did. When it came in, he asked me to come over and set it up (something he has asked me to do for all his PC's over the past 15 years).
I set everything up, installed and configured his software and restored the data. Everything went well and I left. But I was extremely disappointed in the poor performance of Vista. The machine was very sluggish and anemic compared to my old Win XP machine. I know Vista is vastly larger and more complicated than XP, so what is needed to improve performance in case I decide to purchase a new PC? I was thinking a 4 way processor. This might help, but is the Windows Vista license only for 2 PC's? Or maybe I should just stick with XP on my next computer.