So I think I may have mentioned the laptop that I have at home, installed with Vista Home Professional. I'm running an IBM (or should I say Lenovo) X60 with 2GB of RAM. It's got a dual core 2.14 gHz processor.
Well, I've now set that up as the primary machine in the house. And to my interest, I decided to see the memory in use when I booted up. And it was at 1.02GB of RAM. Now after turning off several startup processes (iTunes helper, digital line detect, other services I don't want running until I wanted them to run) I dropped it to 940MB of RAM used. Turning off Aero turned it down to 910MB of RAM.
While the following question is what is running, everything that starts up with the machine is a normal process from Windows natively, other than running Trend Micro's PC-Cillin (which is far less processory/memory intensive than its Symantec counterpart) and the Lenovo Fingerprint software I have. Even if at most we're taking 50MB of RAM for those 2 products, which is overstating how much they use, we're talking approximately 850MB for base RAM useage. By an OS. And no other applications running.
That's just simply awful. No wonder they're promoting more computing power after SP1. Utterly pathetic how many resources this OS takes to run.
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