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Re:“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsof... by walrus01 on Friday July 23, 2021 @04:43PM (#27935404)
OEMs also shipped Vista on laptops with as little as 256MB of RAM, where the silly thing was immediately deep into swap space (on a slow 4200 or 5400 rpm 2.5" spinning hard drive) immediately after booting. It was the most excruciating experience.
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Re:“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsof... by mustacheemperor on Friday July 23, 2021 @09:58PM (#27937789)
And on the other hand 4GB or more of ram would require Vista 64bit, which today remains the most crash-prone and unstable leaky bucket of an operating system I’ve ever been subjected to, at least in the first year of release.
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Re:“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsof... by anthk on Saturday July 24, 2021 @07:44AM (#27940065)
No it doesn't. Both Windows and Linux have PAE.
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Re:“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsof... by mustacheemperor on Monday July 26, 2021 @04:33PM (#27965078)
Aha, thanks for the correction! This was based on some distant, traumatic memories with an HP Touchsmart prebuilt.
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