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Aero Was Efficiently Written

by Milo on December 31st, 2006

Principled Technologies conducted tests for Microsoft that proved Windows Aero had little effect on slowing down the performance of the computer. Information week reports that: Principled Technologies measured performance with Aero on and off using a Dell XPS M170 notebook equipped with 1 Gbyte of RAM, a 2.0-GHz Intel Pentium M 750 single-core processor, and a graphics card with 256 Mbytes of memory. The laptop’s configuration met or exceeded Microsoft’s own minimum system requirements for what it calls a “Vista Premium Ready PC,” which is a system with sufficient horsepower to run Aero. Those requirements, for example, specify a graphics card with at least 128 Mbytes of memory.

Aero in itself was probably written in a way that it doesn’t consume unnecessary resources that slow down the pc; but Aero in itself is resource thirsty enough to make your PC slow. Anyways, disabling Aero is possible for low powered PCs, but why would you do that? Don’t get a Vista if you are going to disable the interface anyway.

Source here.

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