<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>However, I now have 7 on a 64bit with 2GB ram, and it does just fine --- (I think.(I do mean to take it to 4GB at the right time, but it surely does not seem necessary for Ubuntu, but who knows). Periodically, the cursor freezes with the touchpad, but I think that is just the operating system, not the ram. But I do a large library of books, a GUI web designer, and DTP just fine. Overall, I don't like 7 at all. XP is still the best (definition of "best" relative). However, why on earth would anyone compare 7 to Linux? I think 7 is primitive comparatively. However, I still need Windows for certain programs (but my day will come). And 7 does not have any of my printer drivers!!!!! So I still have an old laptop with XP, and it runs Xubuntu really nice.</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family:
verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Dan Kulinski <daniel@kulinski.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> CLUE's mailing list <clue@cluedenver.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, May 7, 2012 10:27 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [clue] Windows 7 memory usage - anyone got true facts?<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv590745125">Windows will pre-emptively page applications to disk. It has done this for a long time. As for memory, 2GB should run just fine, but 64bit windows 7 will take advantage of more than 3.5GB of RAM. In fact we have laptops running around with 8GB where this wasn't really possible with 64bit Windows XP (poor driver/application support). <br>
<br>One thing that I have noticed is that Windows 7 seems to be much better with more than one CPU core. <br><br>Dan<br><br><div class="yiv590745125gmail_quote">On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Bruce Ediger <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:bediger@stratigery.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:bediger@stratigery.com">bediger@stratigery.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="yiv590745125gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">At work, there's a pilot project to upgrade to Windows 7 (and IE 9,<br>
we're currently stuck on IE7). My group's pilot project designee<br>
had to upgrade her laptop to 4 *Gigabytes* RAM to be able to run<br>
Windows 7 and some applications.<br>
<br>
Since it's impossible to get true answers at work, what exactly does<br>
Windows 7 do with 4 *Gigabytes* RAM? My current laptop, an elderly<br>
HP/Compaq N8000, has 2 Gig, and it just doesn't ever swap, as near as I<br>
can tell, unless I deliberately write a program to allocate all memory.<br>
What does Windows 7 do that's so special? Is there any other answer<br>
than "We upgrade because Microsoft tells up to"?<br>
<br>
On a software engineering note, how does Microsoft (the development<br>
staff) deal with the code base that uses that much memory? That size<br>
code base has to be exhausting to maintain - how do they counteract<br>
the human tendency towards shortcuts and quick fixes?<br>
<br>
Signed,<br>
Befuddled in Denver<br>
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