Windows Vista is really a power hog?

Well my laptop is running Windows XP service pack 3, but I'm looking at upgrading to a newer Windows operating system. I am interested in Vista because it's a cheaper option then 7 but many people said that it is a resource hog and has many problems to be worth buying. Is it really true or is it all lies?

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-AU/Windows-Vista/products/system-requirements

Read the above MS recommended configuration.

The RAM should be at least 2GBs for reasonable access the speed of your system.

1 GB is too little.

But, you can also try Readyboost, if you have only about 1 GB of RAM.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial136.html

Windows ReadyBoost allows Vista to use the compatible USB flash drives as a cache instead of the hard drive. It is faster because it has been shown that the small random reads and writes on flash RAM may be 8 to 10 times faster than the caching to one of your hard drives. To really take advantage of this new feature, Microsoft suggests that you provide enough space on aflash player for ReadyBoost so that you are in at least a physical 1:1 with your RAM installed report.

Read the above info.

And in the configuration required in 1 link at the top of the answer to thie, notice the increased graphics that are required in Vista compared to XP

Hope the above helps.

See you soon.

Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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