Well, in general there is less difference between a OS X release that you pay for and a Windows release. That said, having very limited hardware options does allows for a much easier transition. It's probably the only upside of not having options, the downsides being if it were the case normally, that things would cost significantly ore and advances would occur at a slower pace.
Well thank god Windows 8 isn't a Vista brother in terms of performance. Anyway could someone do a fresh Win8 boot and download GPU-Z and post their VRAM usage? Curious to see how it differs from 7, it's around about 50 - 70 MB on 7.
I thought the same but it is not, I went back to a clean windows 7 for 1 week, and it was already slower than my installed win 8 1 month old
Wow! That's a HUGE memory consumption! Especially these days when RAM is cheap as socks. Better memory management? It's JUST a fuss...the memory management IS THE SAME as Win7, but IT SEEMS better due to the s**tty GUI. Put Aero back in Win8 and I bet that the memory management will be worse in the same conditions. 5 seconds on power-up? 10 on shutdown? I turn off my computer only when Windows requires it after major update install. Other than that I don't care about that "improvement"...