Posted by misterj

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sure its size is about 16 gb, but having 112ish gb available sort of makes it seem unsignificant. 5000 mp3s is probably around 5 gb. big games are between 1 and 2 gb. 26 episodes of some random anime is around 3 gb... hd space is no problem for me.
ram isn't much of an issue for me either. i'm running a winamp playlist with about 2000 songs, AIM, skype, mIRC on 5 servers and 18 channels, FIREFOX using 2 tabs, daemon tools with one mounted iso, as well as 2x explorer and one folder open... and i have 500/1024 mb/ram free.

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Vista "only" takes about 7GB on a clean install actually, still 5-10x bigger than XP ... with the usual bloat and crap, of course (like 143MB for "Recorded TV" samples, and support for typing Japanese/Chinese/Korean that almost no one outside of those countries will need)

For RAM, it's not that bad if you have 2GB, but 1GB is barely enough for anything with Aero on and all ... even the slimmed down copy I've messed around with lately (many services disabled, etc.) uses around 170MB minimum, while XP easily goes below 100MB


I've had it at work since about a month now, though, and it's not that bad (I didn't even get tired of the Aero theme and sidebar yet, only changed some settings like getting the menu bar back) ... but I'd still rather keep Windows XP for now on my computer, although I do remember keeping Windows 2000 for a while after XP came out as well

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