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| Thread ID: 61437 | 2005-09-04 23:47:00 | Latest On MS Vista Hardware Requirements | vinref (6194) | PC World Chat |
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| 386116 | 2005-09-04 23:47:00 | A Microsoft spokesperson has said that Vista will run best with a video card with 256MB+ ram, a SATA2 drive, and around 2GB DDR rams worth of memory (www.apcstart.com). Of course it will run on lesser hardware, but the benchmark for the best environment makes one wonder how much lesser can you get? How much do 256MB vid cards, SATA2 drives and 2GB DDR ram go for nowadays? |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 386117 | 2005-09-04 23:57:00 | Who wants to heavily invest money and resources for an OS,especially when all those resources are going towards nothing but bells and whistles. What the frig is this software up to that it needs hardware twice the specs of Doom3? No doubt as some time in the future I will have a rig of the design as specified by MS, aint no way in hell I will have the girl chugging away under load just to run an OS. Be a hardcase if XP proves to be MS's last big title..... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 386118 | 2005-09-05 00:00:00 | How much do 256MB vid cards, SATA2 drives and 2GB DDR ram go for nowadays? Presuming that harddrive prices will remain static (as they have over the last couple of years) then your only looking at about $600 worth of gear. 256mb cards can be picked up for pocket change,ram has never been cheaper, Harddrives can be less then $1 per GB..... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 386119 | 2005-09-05 01:21:00 | Hmmm ... it will all be standard on new machines in teh near future anyway. I just brought a middle range machine with a 128 meg video card which is good according to the article, and 64 bit athlon chip. Prior I have a machine that wouldn't run winXP, so there really is nothing new about the new system that we havn't seen in prior new versions of windows in terms of hardware requirements. By the time its released new machines will have the equipment as default for about the same cost as machines now. |
netchicken (4843) | ||
| 386120 | 2005-09-05 01:26:00 | A Microsoft spokesperson has said that Vista will run best with a video card with 256MB+ ram, a SATA2 drive, and around 2GB DDR rams worth of memory (www.apcstart.com). Who was that said "you will only ever need 640 k of RAM" |
beama (111) | ||
| 386121 | 2005-09-05 01:29:00 | The vast majority of the worlds computers use intergrated graphics,minimal ram and the slowest harddrives the manufacturers can lay their hands on.... So no, the hardware won't become common place in new machines, Instead we will have the current trend, Under-specced bottleknecked crap sold in huge numbers....***INTEREST FREE*** Quick everybody,rush down to harvey normans or the warehouse... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 386122 | 2005-09-05 01:59:00 | Since in my opinion, Vista is just gonna wind up being SP-99 for Windows XP anyway, I say wait for Google to present it's OPSYS. I bet it is even free for a while too...especially in the Beta version which will probably work better than any full release of M$ anyway. Won't THAT frost ol' Bill's bonnet? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 386123 | 2005-09-05 02:01:00 | man is this a cycle or what... it's happening again... stupid f***ing windows! happy to be off that lardass bandwagon... that hardware is recommended huh? how much of it will actually be utilizable by the user, windows alone will probly use 95% of resources :P gah..... cant even be bothered.... |
hamstar (4) | ||
| 386124 | 2005-09-05 03:19:00 | You can't help thinking what Metla is asking: What is running in Vista that needs so much processing power and other resources? That encrypting and decrypting thing discussed in the article - that must be responsible for Vista's voracious appetite for resources. It is for copyright protection for MS' media partners. So it sounds like the whole thing will be foisted on users - hardware requirements, copyright enforcement and surveillance, MS "standards" etc, whether they need/like it or not. Aren't we lucky we have alternatives? |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 386125 | 2005-09-05 03:47:00 | Aren't we lucky we have alternatives? Here's my alternative to the latest (and not necessarily greatest): I'm still running Windows ME. Sure, it sometimes hangs on startup & shutdown, but hey - it doesn't seem to take up as much disk space as WinXP, nor demand so many resources (though it would be pointless putting in 1GB RAM), nor become the target for the latest viruses. In other words, it ain't really broke, so I don't need to 'fix' it. And if it does break, I'd want to fix it with something that isn't any more broken (e.g. in new 'features'). |
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