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"Acquired" a copy of Windows Vista

I posted over in the laptop thread that I saw Vista running on a Dell Inspirion 1705 with a GB of ram and I was unimpressed. I found it to be sluggish and I was surprised that it used 60-70% of the RAM when nothing was running.

I haven't kept up with the new CPU's. The Dell I tried has the Centrino Duo Core. On my next laptop, should I spec a better, faster processor? Any suggestions?

I appreciate any nuggets of wisdom from those in the know.
 
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^this is 100% true. I am running vista ultimate 64bit on an e1705 with 2gb of 667mhz ram with a 2.0 core 2 duo processor, and right now I am using 45% of ram and about 17% of each core.

Oh yea, the core 2 duo processors are the best out right now, well excluding the quad cores. But right now intel is winning processor war with much better chips for a cheaper price.
 
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Deport;807871; said:
^this is 100% true. I am running vista ultimate 64bit on an e1705 with 2gb of 667mhz ram with a 2.0 core 2 duo processor, and right now I am using 45% of ram and about 17% of each core.

Oh yea, the core 2 duo processors are the best out right now, well excluding the quad cores. But right now intel is winning processor war with much better chips for a cheaper price.

I'm running an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ wth 2 GB of RAM on Home Premium.

Sitting idle, I'm using about 11% RAM and 15% of CPU.

What are you guys doing to your PC's?
 
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Like I said it doesn't have all of the glossy stuff as evidenced by not having ultimate extras, this being said, I don't mind it eating my resources. This is why when I bought this laptop I maxed out the ram and made sure I got the 667mhz ram also.
 
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