1) If taxing the CPU and HDD 24/7 is somehow superior to the rewritten superfetch on Win7, then please do explain how it is superior. Win7 performs a hell of a lot better on my laptop than did Vista.
And you ASSume that all that CPU and hard drive activity was due to superfetch? You mean none of it was your antivirus? None of it was trying desperately to defrag a partition that was too small? (remember XP would not even allow you to defrag once the drive was that full, at least Vista tried!) None of it was indexing?
2) Don't tell me about reading the min specs, I installed Win7 Ultimate on a 10GB partition and it worked perfectly and ran faster than Vista did on a 20GB partition. That's besides the point. There's absolutely no reason what-so-ever that an operating system needs 10GBs much less 20GBs of space. None. Zip. Zilch. And all your fanboism isn't going to change that.
Just because 7 worked when you did something you were clearly told not to do does not mean it was right. Just because Vista did something wrong when you clearly did something you were not supposed to do does not make Vista bad.
Fanboism? LOL! First, what is a fanbo? Lets see:
I follow the directions from the manufacturer and exceed not only the minimums but the recommended as well, and it works fine. I say it works fine.
You ignore not only the recommended, but the minimums as well, and it does not work well. You blame your failure on Vista.
So exactly who is the fan boY here?
And lastly, no, and operating system does not need 10GB, but everyone keep wanting features so it keeps getting bigger and bigger. We could cut most of that out by removing the Aero interface (and you would gripe), the GUI (and you would gripe), Media Center (and you would gripe), backwards program compatibility (and you would gripe), built in driver support for thousands of devices (and you would gripe), built in BD/DVD/CD buring (and you would gripe), built in networking (and you would gripe), and the list goes on and on and on.
Keep in mind, even Ubuntu suggests a minimum of 8GB.
Allan