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Windows Vista Will Have Tiered Hardware Requirements
Walter Bushell pr...@panix.com comp sys mac advocacy In article <noone-6E1343. 08442906122...@newsgroups.comcast.net>, Steve Carroll <no...@nowhere.net> 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

Please avoid Vista like the plague
Obviously vista is an upgrade, but there doesn't seem much to go Wow about aside from aero. Most of the features they list are standard on other OS's. Dont tell Bill, he gets pissy when you tell him the truth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoZgFSwvU_c He has a beautiful singing voice though:

Windows Vista Will Have Tiered Hardware Requirements
Nathan Mercer nmer...@gmail.com nz comp XPD wrote: From GGMania.com " 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 Australia. He told APC that Vista would

OT - Windows Vista hardware requirements
Ooooh, here's an exciting one: Sound Recorder has been rewritten and now supports recording clips of any length and saving them as WMA. So you can finally, again, save long clips. Haven't been able to do that since Win NT 4 SP what? 2? 3? Is there anything really /compelling/ about Vista? -- Don't flip the Bozo Bit

Even top officials struggled to make vista work!!!
Dave - Dave.net.nz davene...@gmail.com nz comp Nathan Mercer wrote: He told APC that Vista would work best on a video card with more than 256MB RAM, a S-ATA 2 hard drive " If you want to official requirements for Windows Vista, please visit http://microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/evaluate/hardware close...

Low hardware requirements for Vista
Steve Carroll no...@nowhere.net comp sys mac advocacy 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 Vista Premium".

Low hardware requirements for Vista
The Microsoft listed hardware requirements for 'Premium Vista' are the minimum requirements for that level. I posted: "If you can wait a few months, hold off on purchasing a new laptop. Prices of laptops that don't support all the Vista bells and whistles will drop, and you can then choose to go with either lower

Good deal
So, I'm suspecting that the hardware may not be up to the task of running either Vista, NAV or both. What do you guys think? If I bought the laptop (salary sacrifice through work) would dumping NAV improve things? Yep. Or would I be better off reformatting the disc and installing XP Pro? You can do that too.

Low hardware requirements for Vista
For me, there's no one single feature I gotta have, but taken together its new apps So MS have got round to including applications in with Vista then have they? Would you like to tell us what applications it contains above what was available in XP? (Oh yes, there's a CALENDAR, isn't there? Anything else?)

Hefty hardware requirements for Dimdows Vista
Ericew eri...@gmail.com comp os linux advocacy Windows media centre Internet Information services 7. Windows Fax and Scan Windows Meeting Space Sound Recorder Windows Photo Gallery Windows Movie Maker Windows DVD Maker speech recognition/synthesis Desktop search gadgets BitLocker Drive Encryption updates to the

Vista's hardware requirements...
shannon m...@privacy.net nz comp Waylon Kenning wrote: I know of a computer company in Raglan that supports Windows 95, and more importantly, I'd say it'd be quite hard to find a small computer company that didn't support Windows 95, or hardware from that era. Heck, if you had a Windows 95 problem, I could come help

[189.15.180.88 BR AS16735 189.15.176.0/20] Combines all the ...
The emails reflect a lot of frustration among senior Microsoft personnel about Vista's performance problems and hardware incompatibilities. They also appear to indicate that Microsoft lowered the hardware requirements for 'Vista Capable' in order to include certain lower-end Intel chipsets, apparently as a favor to

Vista Hardware Requirements
Hardware will catch up to the "Holiday 2006" release date. Besides, Microsoft has bigger software problems right now. Their OpenGL implementation is a dog. From: David Maynard <nospam private.net> Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Subject: Re: Windows Vista Hardware Requirements Date: Thu,

Hefty hardware requirements for Windows Vista
Though it does admit this may not give you X at a "usable speed". dyne:bolic <http://www.dynebolic.org/> is a multimedia-oriented Linux distro with minimum hardware requirements being "a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console - and if you have more than one, you can easily do

Vista's hardware requirements...
steve st...@killfilesarefun.org.nz nz comp XPD wrote: From GGMania.com " 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 Australia. He told APC that Vista would

Low hardware requirements for Vista
AKA a very expensive sunken cost in hardware that you don't just throw away overnight on a free email service to prove a point to newsgroup posters. Who cares except for newsgroup posters what the backend servers are running on? with whatever they were already running? I'm interested to know.

Low hardware requirements for Vista
Like is 256MB video RAM really enough for a Vista system, or enough to get by for a start with a plan to upgrade it later, or is it better to get a 512MB card and try to cut some expense on another part? I think 256M would be fine -- that's an onboard 256M, what you don't want is a card that supports 256M but only

Low hardware requirements for Vista
Couldn't find the euro currency US search engines anything non US is a threat therefore ignored. http://www.google.co.uk/ http://uk.ask.com/ http://fr.yahoo.com/ http://www.pcloisirs.eu/aide_windows_vista.htm VISTA HARDWARE CHECKLIST Minimum Recommended Processor 800MHz 1GHz 32 or 64 bit System Memory 512MB 1GB

Low hardware requirements for Vista
And the truth is that XP is 30-40% faster than Vista RTM and 30-20% faster than SP1 Vista SP1 is faster than RTM... but XP leaves vista behind in the DUST. only basic hardware requirements, all of which related to the cheapest hardware at the time, and in no way representative of what most used.

Even top officials struggled to make vista work!!!
Mutlley mutley2...@hotmail.com nz comp HOG <s...@spam.com> wrote: On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 07:50:15 +1200, "XPD" <spams...@xpdxpd.coco.nz> spoke these fine words: From GGMania.com " Hefty hardware requirements for Windows Vista - Hardware vendors are going to love the news that Windows Vista is going to need very beefy