- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Gemini
And for the other guy, $160 isn't too bad for an operating system. It's only 60 dollars more than the wholesale price of OSX Tiger and around the same price as XP Professional wholesale. I unfortunately will be getting Vista Ultimate so I will have to save up a little longer. I'm hoping 2GB ram will be able to hold me over for a while, although I bet I will end of having to buy two more 1GB sticks to make Vista run as flawlessly as my copy of XP does.
2 Gigs should be able to hold you for awhile. I have the beta and I usualy run below 1 gig. Although I have had vista running for 3 and a half days, have Tool *part of the Halo Editing Kit* running a full quality radiosity to 0.1 *which i started radiosity right after i started the computer, that 3 1/2 days ago* and its down to 0.103682 *tool has to load the full level plus keep the lightmap that it is building in memory*, and the total ammount of used memory is up to just under 2 gigs *out of 6 gigs, 3 of which are virtual ram* so your 2 gigs should be very much fine, as long as you arent doing a large arsed map.
BTW, i hope you were jsut kidding when you said upgrade 3.1, if you got 3.1 running on one of todays computers, kudos to you and install a fresh copy of vista over the thing. there is a 99.9999999999999999999999999999999//9999999999999999999999999 999 chance that it wont work upgrading 3.1 to vista **the // is ment to cut out an infinate ammount of 9s**
[Edited on 9/4/2006]