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<blockquote data-quote="Village Idiot" data-source="post: 366498" data-attributes="member: 29446">It's not. Does she have a decent video card, or is she trying to run something crappy with aero turned on?I installed vista on a dell laptop with 2gb of memory and a 256mb nvidia go 7900gs, which is a really good gpu, and it's running at about 2-3% more core memory use than with xp. In fact, it rarely goes over 50% unless I start running games and stuff. I do all my editing in Photoshop CS2, and have had 10-15 photos open at once with no slow down.Most of the people that complain about Vista being slow are trying to run the Aero engine with a crappy card.Which is why I would suggest to the OP to not try and run Vista on a Macbook unless he's atleast tech savvy enough to turn of the Aero engine and adjust any other settings needed to get it to run smoothly. Also, you can run into a fair amount of software problems in Vista if you don't run them as admin and/or setup the compatibility options to run as XP SP2.I personally wouldn't try and run Vista unless I was using a MBP or something with a GPU that has it's own dedicated memory.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Village Idiot, post: 366498, member: 29446"] It's not. Does she have a decent video card, or is she trying to run something crappy with aero turned on? I installed vista on a dell laptop with 2gb of memory and a 256mb nvidia go 7900gs, which is a really good gpu, and it's running at about 2-3% more core memory use than with xp. In fact, it rarely goes over 50% unless I start running games and stuff. I do all my editing in Photoshop CS2, and have had 10-15 photos open at once with no slow down. Most of the people that complain about Vista being slow are trying to run the Aero engine with a crappy card. Which is why I would suggest to the OP to not try and run Vista on a Macbook unless he's atleast tech savvy enough to turn of the Aero engine and adjust any other settings needed to get it to run smoothly. Also, you can run into a fair amount of software problems in Vista if you don't run them as admin and/or setup the compatibility options to run as XP SP2. I personally wouldn't try and run Vista unless I was using a MBP or something with a GPU that has it's own dedicated memory. [/QUOTE]

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