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Windows Vista hardware requirements/performance
Wayne Stuart m...@privacy.net uk media tv misc Liam Gretton <n...@binliner.demon.nl> wrote: On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Wayne Stuart wrote: Rich Mackin <rich.mackin@ntlworld. SPAMTRAP.com> wrote: "Wayne Stuart" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message news:1hmyoxv.84g8bt1sfkpekN%me4@privacy.net... Take away another 6k or so for

Low hardware requirements for Vista
Johan Lindquist s...@smilfinken.net comp os linux advocacy So anyway, it was like, 14:25 CET Feb 01 2007, you know? Oh, and, yeah, Tim Fairchild was all like, "Dude, [..] Without aero, it's really just like XP. So why pay the extra money? The official blessing to say "wow" every time you boot up, of course.

Windows Vista Hardware Requirements
John Doe j...@usenet.love.invalid alt comp hardware pc-homebuilt David Maynard <nospam private.net> wrote: John Doe wrote: . From: David Maynard <nospam private.net> Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Subject: Re: Windows Vista Hardware Requirements Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 22:40:28 -0500 Organization:

Hefty hardware requirements for Windows Vista
Tom's Hardware has posted an article that purports that Vista may require 2 GB of DDR3 RAM in order to run. And that's just for starters. Read here: http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050908_100000.html And its bollocks considering the BETA runs fine on current hardware. Vista is no more than XP with a few

Microsoft Internal Emails Show Dismay With Vista
... average business PCs in North America are unable to meet the minimum requirements for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, while 94 percent do not meet the system requirements for Vista Premium". http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2068351,00.asp "Williams attributes the poor state of hardware readiness

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Conor conor.tur...@gmail.com alt comp hardware pc-homebuilt In article <6ph1i1tt9o6oehblv0vi1ninq1gj39h...@4ax.com>, Praxiteles Democritus says... On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 23:13:41 +0100, Conor <conor.tur...@gmail.com> wrote: And its bollocks considering the BETA runs fine on current hardware. Vista is no more than XP

Finally, Microsoft Releases Windows Vista Hardware Requirements
LR fsd...@afdafsd.ds comp os linux advocacy Hello, I've read an endless amount of posts in various Linux-forums claiming that Vista has huge hardware requirements. However: I've been running the latest Vista on my laptop since build 53xx. These early builds were horrible slow - I used the file search function on

Vista's hardware requirements...
I personally think that Vista is incrementally better that XP, but not really worth the upgrade if you have to pay for it. If you get it for free, such as via a site license agreement, I would upgrade. Do you upgrade your Linux when a new version is released? Vista is Windows 6.0 whereas XP was 5.1.

Vista's hardware requirements...
PerfectReign theperfectre...@yahoo.com soc culture singapore alt os linux suse alt os linux mandrake soc culture hongkong On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:49:35 -0800, Philip got out the hammer and chisel and etched in the wall: Windows NT 6.0 Basic is listed at $199 (£106), while the home/office version, NT 6.0 Ultimate,

Windows Vista minimum hardware requirements.
I just looked up the Microsoft Windows Vista page here : http://www.microsoft. com/windowsvista/features/default.aspx#wvC6 and found out that Microsoft will once again boost performance of windows by introducing performance enhancements in the newest version. This time they will boost performance without necessity

Low hardware requirements for Vista
Steve de Mena ste...@stevedemena.com comp sys mac advocacy John wrote: Steve Carroll wrote: From the article: "About half of the average business PCs in North America are unable to meet the minimum requirements for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, while 94 percent do not meet the system requirements for

Hefty hardware requirements for Windows Vista
Wayne Stuart m...@privacy.net uk media tv misc Alex Buell <alex.bu...@munted.org.uk> wrote: On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:38:37 GMT, I waved a wand and this message magically appears in front of Wayne Stuart: Ah, ye olde £1.99 budget BBC/Electron tapes. :) And you had 64k? Lucky sod, my old BBC only had 32k, and anything

Low hardware requirements for Vista
Blue flash...@yahoo.com soc culture singapore alt os linux suse alt os linux mandrake soc culture hongkong On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:49:35 -0800, Philip wrote: The dreaded unreliable Wikipedia but hey What can you do? I was reading about a boxer who died of a "heart attack" that's Wikipedia for you.

Low hardware requirements for Vista
If your bad experience is based on these early builds, please try the final version. Are you going to pay for the copy of Vista, plus the hardware required to run it? If not, kindly take your marketing and shove it (or take it to the *appropriate* forum, your choice). Makes note:- "Peter Kai Jensen does not suffer

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Dave - Dave.net.nz davene...@gmail.com nz comp Nathan Mercer wrote: Dave - Dave.net.nz wrote: XPD wrote: " Hefty hardware requirements for Windows Vista - Hardware vendors are going to love the news that Windows Vista is going to need very beefy hardware to run well. Nigel Page is a strategist with Microsoft

Windows Vista Hardware Requirements
shannon m...@privacy.net nz comp Mercury wrote: Push your head deeper into the sand then. Users will always have out of date s/w, and with JFS's being new on Linux / Unix it will take years before they get flushed out of existance - they probably won't tho cos there will be people who insist on using ext2 because in

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neil h neil_hopk...@hotmail.com uk media tv misc Ed Chilada wrote: On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 14:44:03 +0100, "michael adams" <mjadam...@onetel.net.uk> wrote: "Ed Chilada" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote in message news:srgki2p1t82aics1q6ftakped04hvlajuo@4ax.com... If you're saying that no new killer apps have come out at all in

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ray r...@zianet.com comp os linux advocacy On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:11:13 +0100, LR wrote: Hello, I've read an endless amount of posts in various Linux-forums claiming that Vista has huge hardware requirements. However: I've been running the latest Vista on my laptop since build 53xx. These early builds were horrible

Vista Hardware Requirements
BSchnur BSch...@cox.net microsoft public windows vista general You might describe the rest of your hardware configuration. I'm guessing since you have an old generation AGP card (TNT2) that your AGP slot is AGP 2x and not AGP 4x/8x. That would suggest the rest of the hardware configuration might be marginal for

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... Vista operating system, while 94 percent do not meet the system requirements for Vista Premium". http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2068351,00.asp "Williams attributes the poor state of hardware readiness among North American companies to the sharp increase in the hardware resources required to run Vista;