When I read this article today about “Vista won’t be any faster, it got me thinking. You now, I have a dual-core processor laptop with 2GB of ram. It really got me thinking, 2GB of ram is more than I’ve ever had on any computer I’ve ever owned. I work on PC’s day and night, but previous to the laptop I never had a need to have more than 512MB of ram. I mean, of course I had a need, I just never spent the $$. So the laptop has 4 times the amount of ram that my previous system had - and the only difference is that the old laptop (and my old PC) was running Windows XP Professional. Well, that and the fact that the laptop has a “dual-core” processing, a significant improvement over a single core. Windows Vista was supposed to be so much more “responsive”, and make my life so much easier. I’ve realized today that it’s just as slow as both XP systems.

What happenned? 2GB of RAM? That should be like the difference between a 4 and 8 cylinder engine! The difference between a moped and a motorcycle. And yet sometimes I find myself “waiting” for it to delete files, access a folder, login, reload a browser window. Sometimes it gets real laggy - so I just know it’s time to reboot. That sounds like what previous versions of Windows were like, and what they told us would be fixed in Vista. Now that I’ve had this Vista Premium Toshiba laptop for a year, sometimes I’m so busy working I forget how badly we were screwed over by the promises of what Vista would bring. It brough squat! It’s like having a shiny new jackhammer and only being able to use it like a staplegun. Do you feel the same way? Comment now!

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