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Old October 3rd, 2006, 07:29 PM   #1
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The following images show how Vista and XP Pro compare as to memory use: The first image shows XP Pro and the second image is from Vista.
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Old October 3rd, 2006, 07:44 PM   #2
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someone from The Inquirer posted a picture of memory usage with 2gig of mem installed on the system
the free mem got to ~300Mb
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Old October 3rd, 2006, 07:58 PM   #3
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Old October 4th, 2006, 01:18 PM   #5
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here's an interesting short article that compares performance between Vista RC1/572 and XP Pro
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2850

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When I tested Vista RC1 with Areo Glass I was using about 400mb and that was with default settings.
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