james_666
Mar 17 2006, 10:45 PM
| | well at the rate computers are increasing in power and decreasing in price vista will be no problem, i've seen 2ghz+, 180gig hdds, 1gb ram, 256mb ram on graphics, duel core for less than £500. |
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tt3
Mar 21 2006, 08:23 PM
The two problems I think Microsoft will have, in terms of Vista's sales when it is first released is that the previous gaps of Windows had a very short gap between hte next release. There's been a huge gap between the release of XP and Vista, so during that period, most people have gone up to XP and are quite happy with it. They'll be thinking, "why should I upgrade when the OS I have now does everything I need?" The other problem, is that there are few programs which are really memory/cpu intensive. Not many pieces of software (im specifically excluding pc games here btw) fully take advantage of your "brand new Dell XPS" I reckon that with a 1.5ghz 512mb ram pc, you could run just about every program the standard home user needs to run, without any problems, so the home user might be thinking "Why upgrade to Vista or buy a new pc when my current one does everything I need?" Vista will have a slow takeup but most computers will be probably running it by 2009. Fortunately, Vienna isn't scheduled for release untill 2011, giving Vista plenty of time to gain popularity.
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odomike
Mar 23 2007, 07:44 PM
Yea man, I test drove Windows Vista Beta myself and I have about the same thing to say About the OS. Right now, I am running Windows Vista Ultimate and guess what man? The OS is dealing with my hardwares. It aint like I have a weak computer though (Intel ® Pentium ™ 4 630 HT 3.40GHz w/2MB OnDie Cache, 1GB DDR2 5300, 400GB HDD space, nVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE w/256MB video memory), but still that aint enough for the OS. I know that I never had any problems with Win XP performance wise but Windows Vista Ultimate is something else altogether. Ok, I would say the Microsoft really tried where the Windows Aero Graphics effect was concerned but they oughta have thought about the kinda machines that would run the OS. I read a review the other day which stated that up to 50% of US business machines cant run Windows Vista. Well, if you aint got a high (rugged) performance computer and graphics card, dont think about Win Vista.
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matak
Mar 23 2007, 10:08 PM
Strange about that. I installed ultimate, with p4 2.4ghz 512ram and gforce 6600gs (256ram) and it works nice. even faster then xp..
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bhavesh
Mar 23 2007, 11:01 PM
QUOTE(whyme @ Jul 31 2005, 04:23 AM)  Not that I'm not trusting you, but Windows Vista is currently only available to MSDN developers. I would think a MSDN developer would have better spelling skills and wouldn't exactly have free hosting here. I'm just skeptical, don't mind me. Anyways, Vista stands for: Viruses. Instability. Spyware. Trojans. Adware. Get Mac OS X Tiger.  P.S. Moved your topic. That a great definition Viruses. Instability. Spyware. Trojans. Adware. I am totally agree with this definition....hahaha 
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KuBi
Mar 24 2007, 03:04 AM
I dislike it when people bash windows, but don't provide any backup to there statement. It seems like blind thrashing to me. If you've tryed the final release it's awsome. It's not as "buggy" as people say it is. But seeing as how beta is done and over with, and the final is out, I'm closing this thread. Please feel free to make a new topic in regards to the final release. My computer is 8 years old. I've had a grand total of less then 10 viruses. The most common cause of viruses is porn, so unless you plan on looking up porn 24/7 you really don't have much to worry about. It all depends on what you do. And if you need to look at it, bad enough, don't bash windows, just get a Mac.
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