When are VBOs faster than “simple” OpenGL primitives (glBegin())?

Question

After many years of hearing about Vertex Buffer Objects (VBOs), I finally decided to experiment with them (my stuff isn\'t normally performance critical, obviously...)

Answer 1

Assuming I remember this right my OpenGL teacher, who is well known in the OpenGL community, said they are faster on static geometry which is going to be render a lot of time's on a typical game this will be tables chair and small static entities.