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Dumping vista for XP. Can I expect problems?
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The reason battery life is worse on Vista is Vista uses more resources that being cpu cycles, more cpu cycles = more strain on the laptop and battery. Vista takes about 8% of my cpu, XP takes less than 2%Angelina-M wrote: »robt is it because I'm an old fashioned crazy fool?
Poppycat I never even considered battery life. Yet another reason to change over to XP. I have to say its not as good as I expected it would be. I've got the nine cell. As long as I can get XP has drivers for my network card i'll be up and running.0 -
You'll find it's faster if you uninstall all the pre-installed rubbish Dell insist on putting on a computer.
On laptops, Vista gives better battery life than XP.0 -
Peel back your baby's eyelid to find no nationality or religious identity mark there. Peer at your baby's eyes for them to reflect back just people-throw away your flags and religious symbols...0
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Vista does a lot of pre-fetching for improved performance, but this obviously eats up memory and uses cpu. It's actually quite aggressive. I turn it off on any virtual machines I have of it.
I've found it to be fine though. Actually really enjoyed using it. Slick, interacts well, very polished. I only really boot it up to play games though. Had it work, but we're developing using W2k3 now. Vista is not as responsive as XP, but is around Ubuntu's sort of responsiveness which is fine.
I know some people have problems with it though. On a C2D you should be fine to be honest."Boonowa tweepi, ha, ha."0 -
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