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| Thread ID: 96244 | 2009-01-03 23:06:00 | Windows Vista or Windows XP? | mathsgood (13356) | Press F1 |
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| 734838 | 2009-01-08 02:30:00 | Windows 7 is built from the vista kernel so it seems - from what I was reading, MS have stated that if a program works in Vista it will work on W7, so going by that, if a program wont work in Vista it wont work in W7. W7 is what Vista "should" have been. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 734839 | 2009-01-09 11:28:00 | That said, you can expect it to still require 1Ghz w/1GB Ram www.pcworld.com vs XP's 300Mhz & 128MB Ram requirements www.microsoft.com vs Ubuntus 100-300MHz & 128MB Ram requirements help.ubuntu.com To be fair, they've pretty much just fixed the IO speed issues, fixed the horrible mess that is UAC that they so badly copied from Mac / Linux, and havent really done much else from what I can see thus far? Those are the big things at least. The Beta is apparently "feature complete" too, so dont expect to see any new innovating features before RTM. There are some additional minor features, but not much. It feels to me like it will be to Vista what the SP2 Upgrade was to XP! Also, according to Wikipedia the Beta will be completely publicly available, but only to 2.5 million users. I just checked for the official download and cant find it, perhaps 2.5 million have downloaded it from MS already? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 734840 | 2009-01-09 17:45:00 | It hasn't been released yet. ;) Check at 9am. :) |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 734841 | 2009-01-09 20:54:00 | That said, you can expect it to still require 1Ghz w/1GB Ram www.pcworld.com vs XP's 300Mhz & 128MB Ram requirements www.microsoft.com vs Ubuntus 100-300MHz & 128MB Ram requirements help.ubuntu.com I think that they decided to put a more accurate minimum RAM requirement for win7 (probably the first ever reasonable minimum requirements from Microsoft). It is still a lot more demanding than XP and Ubuntu (Wouldn't like to run it on a netbook) but not quite as bad as you make it seem. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 734842 | 2009-01-10 01:00:00 | It still requires a lot though, no matter which way you look at it ... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 734843 | 2009-01-11 13:53:00 | you will have less problems with XP which may be important if you lack experience. But if it's reliability thats all important get a MAC. Remaining on Xp leaves you short changed on features and looks and the upgrade to win7 will be easier from vista. would suggest OEM of Vista. your machine will cope EASY. have a friend with Vista home premium on an original AMD Athlon 3800 (non AM2 socket). Would suggest you load/merge the 'takeownership' registry entry straight away as most people i know who have bought Vista machines (preinstalled, branded and home installed) have had the problem of being locked out of functionalities because they don't have ownership of folders. You're not supposed to have to own the folders but it's the easiest solution. | jtester (9712) | ||
| 734844 | 2009-01-11 19:10:00 | Vista by default will sort out ownership when that problem arises - at least, mine does. :) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
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