Vista aero glass, hot or not?
Whether or not you run Vista Aero Glass on your system depends on if you hardware is actually capable of running it smoothly and on personal preference. It mostly comes down to personal preference.
This article compares Vista Aero Glass to Jessica Simpson, pretty to look at, good for a few other things but dumb as dirt. I find it difficult to call a GUI “dumb†the GUI itself is not dumb; however, the core of Vista can be quite irritating with all its confirmation dialogs and security warnings which have nothing to do with the GUI, Aero Glass. Turning off User Account Controls can solve a number of those problems but some programs will not function correctly if you do so.
Granted, if you don’t have the hardware or hardware that is fast enough to run Aero Glass smoothly, you will have a less than stellar experience. One of the complaints in the article was that the Aero process manager (dwm.exe) uses up a lot of CPU cycles. Maybe on an ancient Duron but on my Dual Core Opteron 180 processor, it uses 3% of the processor when I’m moving windows around, 0.1% idle, wow, I sure can’t spare that.
Of course, it may come down to the graphics and memory. Vista likes 2GB to 3GB of memory and at the very least, a DirectX 9 capable graphics card with 128MB of memory. If you don’t have that, don’t plan on running Aero Glass, it is that simple.
PC gamers know they already meet the requirements for Vista because of all the high end stuff that’s needed to run today’s games. Everyone else should check.
As for Aero Glass being slow or taking up too many system resources, it doesn’t, on a fast enough system. Besides, I refuse to stare at Windows Classic all day, who wants to look at bland gray boxes, even if it is just the GUI to the operating system. Watching Windows fade in and out and buttons glow on Aero glass windows brings some change to the mediocre gray GUI that used to be present in Windows 3.1 to Windows 2000, change is good. Long live Aero Glass!
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July 15th, 2007
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