TweakGuides is the antithesis of a blog. It's an extremely informative web site that depends and cares very little for advertising revenue. They've been putting together high-quality guides for tweaking anything and everything for years, and if you read the entire thing when you get the chance, including the introductory paragraphs, you'll understand where it's coming from.Blizzard said:I'm aware my M.S. means nothing, I just got it, and I feel douche-y mentioning it. =P My point is just that I'm not TOTALLY unfamiliar, and I thought it was a little insulting for you to claim everything I'd seen was wrong, especially since a lot of that was from the early days of Vista. I think you admit that with the "incompatibilities are a thing of the past", though...since that implies there were incompatibilities. I expect to comment in this thread if I -do- find any, though.
I'll have to read the rest of the article later (past bedtime), and I'm especially interested in their and your take on the details of the high-memory caching. You even apparently know how I think it works (psychic?) since you know I misunderstand it, so please feel free to enlighten me how it actually works. I tend to be a little wary of trusting blog articles when they throw phrases like "the FUDsters" around, however. I think that's a reasonable approach.
In the meantime - caching. In short, Vista uses the majority of your unused memory to pre-cache your most frequently used programs. It allows programs to load nearly instantly, especially those you use very often. At the same time, the second that you need that memory for something else - a game, a major Photoshop work, or anything else - that cache is instantly dumped to make room.
The article explains it in more detail, with specific examples to back up everything he says.
Just do yourself a favor, make time to read it, and read it. Like I said, it addresses every single fear you brought up and more.
Blizzard said:
Wireless networking used to be a problem but that was fixed even long before SP1 came out. My notebook running Vista has had no problem at all switching between my home network, apartment network, multiple school networks, coffee shop networks, airport networks, and more. It's all very streamlined, fast, and automatic with no need to manually set up security profiles or other settings, and no use for third party applications either.
