{"id":8741,"date":"2007-01-23T17:36:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8741"},"modified":"2007-01-23T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"vista-ram-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8741","title":{"rendered":"Vista RAM Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bink posted a link to a very useful <a href=\"http:\/\/bink.nu\/Article9342.bink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">article<\/a> today on a question that needed to be asked and answered: &quot;How much RAM will I need to run Vista?&quot;.\u00a0 Bink&#8217;s conclusion was in agreement with the original MSDN article.\u00a0 To get a full blown experience from Vista you will need 1.5GB of RAM.<\/p>\n<p>My conclusions?\u00a0 I&#8217;m running a home built Intel Duo Core PC with 4GB of RAM with Vista Business x64.\u00a0 When Vista and the usual bit&#8217;n&#8217;bobs (AV, etc) are running, 1.5Gb is consumed.\u00a0 One thing we&#8217;ve all seen from Windows before is the &quot;Field of Dreams&quot; principle: &quot;If you build it, they will come&quot;.\u00a0 In Windows, if you insert RAM, it will use it.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying your Vista PC needs 2GB of RAM, but I think a basic business machine should have a minimum of 1GB.\u00a0 How this will work in the future, I cannot predict.\u00a0 Most decent vendors will release new verions of products in the coming months to take advantage of the new Vista market.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll likely increase their own footprints and therefore memory requirements will increase.<\/p>\n<p>My advice is to start looking at Vista now if being up to date is important to you.\u00a0 Large business are likely going to have application rollouts that rely on Vista features.\u00a0 The security benefits will surely be worthy of consideration.\u00a0 Have a a look at the product, learn it, identify and prepare your deployment mechanism and figure out your hardware requirements.\u00a0 This way, when the CIO says &quot;we need to get this thing rolling&quot; you&#8217;ll be able to turn around and say &quot;we&#8217;re ready&quot;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bink posted a link to a very useful article today on a question that needed to be asked and answered: &quot;How much RAM will I need to run Vista?&quot;.\u00a0 Bink&#8217;s conclusion was in agreement with the original MSDN article.\u00a0 To get a full blown experience from Vista you will need 1.5GB of RAM. My conclusions?\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8741\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vista RAM Requirements&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}