Creating the Windows 8 user experience

Re:Creating the Windows 8 user experience by rbanffy on Friday May 18, 2012 @05:55PM (#3994231)

> The reason it isn't high on the list is because they already tackled that for Win7

It's not tweaking memory management that solved the problem - it's that our computers started coming with 4 gigabytes of RAM.

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Re:Creating the Windows 8 user experience by sliverstorm on Friday May 18, 2012 @06:02PM (#3994256)

I dunno, Win7 runs just fine on 1GB, and while XP can be installed on 128MB I'm not sure it will run that well.

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Re:Creating the Windows 8 user experience by rbanffy on Friday May 18, 2012 @08:37PM (#3994732)

> I dunno, Win7 runs just fine on 1GB

That's not what I experience with VMs. Unless you restrict yourself to the desktop and Windows Explorer, it doesn't feel good.

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Re:Creating the Windows 8 user experience by sliverstorm on Saturday May 19, 2012 @06:50PM (#3997318)

Dunno if VMs are the ideal reference case.

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