Everyone knows Windows Vista is a resource hog. Everyone says it doesnt even get out of first gear without a gigabyte of RAM, and it takes 2 GB before it stops stuttering and stammering with each mouse click.
Everyone says Vista Home Basic is the black sheep of the family, deserving only of a sideways glance and a dismissive harrumph. Thats what I keep reading on the Internet, so it must be true.
Which is why I had steeled myself for pitiful performance when I yanked all but 512MB out of my test system last week and downgraded to Vista Home Basic. With a 2002vintage CPU and Microsofts minimum recommended RAM, running the most basic of Vista retail editions on a 30GB partition, surely this would be a painful experience.
Or not.
You shouldnt believe everything you read. I was expecting to need Valium and vodka and an on-call therapist to handle Vista Home Basic on this low-end system. Instead, I found a snappy, responsive OS that did everything I asked of it.
My primary goal was to measure startup times, answering skeptics who thought my test results from a few weeks ago were skewed by the expansive 1.5GB of RAM on this ancient P4 test...
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