05-18-2006, 06:33 PM | #1 | |
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Vista Hardware Requirements
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05-18-2006, 07:22 PM | #2 |
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holy hell.......should be fun
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Ugh, 15GB.
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05-18-2006, 10:00 PM | #5 |
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what's vista? the new xp thingy?
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05-18-2006, 10:28 PM | #6 |
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M$'s next OS.
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05-18-2006, 10:50 PM | #7 |
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Running XP pro is HELL at 800MHz and 512 Ram...
How the HELL would Vista run on that? It MIGHT boot after 72 years of loading. M$ doesn't understand that OSs NEED to be compatible with older hardware. The average user it NOT running with 1GB ram. There are still people running with 256 MB of Ram... HELL, Dell still sells computers with 256 MB starting Ram! |
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"Nigel Page is a strategist with Microsoft Australia. He told APC today that Vista would work best on a video card with more than 256MB RAM, 2GB of DDR3 memory and a S-ATA 2 hard drive."
He then goes on to say: quote: ""One of the things you'll notice about Vista beta 1 is that it runs dramatically quicker than Windows XP. The reason is the GPU is now doing a lot of work that the CPU used to have to do. There are a couple of gotchas though. The GPU needs a very high speed bi-directional bus to communicate with main memory. That has not been the case in the past, and what it means is that AGP will not be optimal. "The reason is that one of the things the LDDM can do is allow a video card to back stuff off into the PC's main memory if it has a particularly intensive task and needs the video RAM to work in. That's an intensely bi-directional type of communication. "The GPU will need a plenty of room to operate in Vista. The more memory you put on a video card the better really. We want the least dumping back to main memory because that's slower than graphics. If you have 128MB that's good, if you have 256MB that's better, but I expect that video card memory will go up a lot when Longhorn is released. " Lin'Q http://www.apcstart.com/teched/pivot/entry.php?id=6 |
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05-19-2006, 12:55 AM | #11 |
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I'm suprised at the utilisation they are talking about, specifically that GPU's will now be taking some of the pressure off CPU's. I want to see it in action to be honest and not with a killer pc but the average joe public as time of release.
It's a bold step by MS anyway, I can only imagine how severely changed Taskmanager will now be lol. |
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05-19-2006, 02:38 AM | #12 |
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Just an observation:
You know what's NOT witty/original/cool anymore? "M$" or "Micro$oft." Guess what? EVERY company is out to make money, isn't it SHOCKING? It's not like you EVER see "Pep$i", "Be$t Buy", or "Walgreen$", for some reason Microsoft is the only company on EARTH that is looking for a profit. |
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05-19-2006, 04:55 AM | #13 |
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But Microsoft goes at getting that profit in very underhanded and nasty ways.
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And 15GB? Lol. DSL is 50MB. One OS that can be full-size or scale down to that? That's good engineering. |
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MS will continue to support XP for 2 years after the release of Vista. I think that is more than adaquet for a transition period.
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That's really not very long. That logic only works if you disagree with the previous comment about how people who don't want to be forced to upgrade can stick with XP.
I wouldn't want to buy a copy of XP if I knew that in 2 years time it'll be essentially useless. |
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05-19-2006, 03:29 PM | #20 |
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When I saw the Hard Drive requirements for Vista...regardless of what the actual used size ends up being...anyone remember Bill Gates saying at one point in time that 640K was all anyone would ever need?
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