SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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 Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:29 am Post subject: Vista and Rivals Review (BBC) |
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Vista and Rivals Review (BBC)
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Microsoft launches its new operating system, Windows Vista, on Tuesday, promising "the wow starts now".
We have selected two readers to explain what they like and don't like about the new operating system and two readers who are extolling the virtues of rival systems - the open source platform Linux and Apple's Mac OS X. |
I enjoyed this article, though I was slightly annoyed by the linux and mac users bringing up the lack of viruses phallacy, but hey when you're in the Cult you do cult things.
The most interesting thing to me was:
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| The most unique new feature is called Readyboost. When you're having performance issues due to insufficient memory, you can use a USB flash drive as an additional cache of memory to boost performance. |
Will this act like extra RAM? if so, that is really interesting. Will have to do more research on this later.
Anyhow I'm still planning on waiting until after SP1 comes out. |
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