MP & Vista (1 Viewer)

[Marcusb]

I guess if you turn off all the "flash" then it may not need as much memory.

I haven't used Vista, but from everything I've read (including from MS itself) it would seem that the only outcome of using Vista with MP as a dedicated HTPC is that you need a serious upgrade to your system and your hibernate may be a bit faster.

Can you confirm that Vista uses less resources? any statistics?

 

[Hemulen]

Hemulen: Have you actually tried Vista? Or is the extra need for ressources just something you heard on an internet forum?

My experience tells me that Vista runs better than XP on my machines..

Congratulations! My experience after running Vista RTM on 5 laptops (3 Dell and 2 HP) and various desktops is that 1GB of RAM is minimum while XP runs quite OK with only 512MB of RAM. CPU scaling on laptops and desktops doesn't work yet, it always full speed.