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Originally Posted by spunker88
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Well xp was made in like 01-02. An os being made in 05-06 is going to be more bloated and more of a resource hog than the older xp os.
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Define bloat for me.
I value things that help me get my work done faster. For example, the indexing service in Vista takes quite a bit of RAM. However, it speeds up searches many times over. The a real productivity increase. Virtual folders help speed up finding my files, but they increase the file system complexity a little.
"Bloat" as you describe it look like features to me.
One could also add that unused cpu cycles are wasted cycles and unused RAM is wasted RAM. The longer I use computers the more I agree with this statement. Right now I have a video card capable of processing millions of operations per second and it is just sitting there pretty much doing nothing. Vista will make that video card render and accelerate the GUI and several other tricks that I can't talk about here.