My Vista RTM installation is using 9.1GB after a roughly fresh Ultimate Version install. About 1.5GB of that is the swap file, and another 100 - 200MB is stuff I've downloaded to the desktop.
Im pretty happy with how its been running, Startup is way way quicker than a fresh XP installation. Vista seems slow at first boot but thats because its optimizing itsself. Moving programs around so that the most accessed are on faster parts of you HDD and whatnot. Something like that anyway. I dont really like how the new start menu's Programs menu works. Expanding in the same space instead of spanning out onto the desktop is a bid lame and makes it kind of hard to navigate. The whole O.S. in general seems alot smoother than XP, I still notice areas where its no so streamlined, if you're used to XP and the Properties menu where you can change wallpaper and such then your going to have a new learning curve coming your way. For users new to Windows it would probably be easier than the previous XP way.
Havn't played with gaming, Only using nVidia drivers for RC2. Hopefully they release some RTM ones. Fresh boot memory usage amazes me, 448MB. I have 104MB out of 1500MB free, about 1100MB is used for caching? Hopefully thats freed up when I load a game.
So far it hasnt crashed once, XP didnt either, but for a RTM O.S. with RC2 drivers I'm pretty happy with how its running.
Im pretty happy with how its been running, Startup is way way quicker than a fresh XP installation. Vista seems slow at first boot but thats because its optimizing itsself. Moving programs around so that the most accessed are on faster parts of you HDD and whatnot. Something like that anyway. I dont really like how the new start menu's Programs menu works. Expanding in the same space instead of spanning out onto the desktop is a bid lame and makes it kind of hard to navigate. The whole O.S. in general seems alot smoother than XP, I still notice areas where its no so streamlined, if you're used to XP and the Properties menu where you can change wallpaper and such then your going to have a new learning curve coming your way. For users new to Windows it would probably be easier than the previous XP way.
Havn't played with gaming, Only using nVidia drivers for RC2. Hopefully they release some RTM ones. Fresh boot memory usage amazes me, 448MB. I have 104MB out of 1500MB free, about 1100MB is used for caching? Hopefully thats freed up when I load a game.
So far it hasnt crashed once, XP didnt either, but for a RTM O.S. with RC2 drivers I'm pretty happy with how its running.