Windows vista - what's your oppinion before release?
Here are the system requirements for windows xp and windows vista side by side:
processor: 233 mhz minimum (300 mhz recomd) for xp, 800 mhz 32-bit or 64-bit minimum (1ghz recomd) for vista.
ram: 64 mb minimum (128 mb recomd) for xp, 512 mb minimum (1 gb recomd) for vista.
hdd sp : 1.5 gb for xp, 15 gb (20 recomd) for vista.
video card: svga (800*1024) for xp, the aero interface of vista requires a
modern and expencive graphics adaptor (128 mb min)
my query
s are:
1. do you find making the processor requirements 3.5 times higher, ram requirements 8 times and hdd requirements 10 times higher a bit unreasonable, and
steep to cope with?
2. will you upgrade
soon or wait for a service pack or two?
3. does your pc meet the requirements?
4. if your pc meets the system requirements is it a recent one?
5. if it does not are you planning to upgrade/buy a new one?
6. any other comments on vista's
high (my personal oppinion) system reqs.
not attempting to buy (noo way!!!).
just curious.
Answer
The answers to your questions are as follows
1.the processor requirements are reasonable i reckon
,800mhz is
on the slow side,i have
a athlon processor running at 1.8ghz and this runs vista fine but i have
used vista on a comapq deskpro pentium 3(866mhz) and it was
sluggish,i reckon the min c.p.u speed should be 1.2ghz,as for the hdd,i reckon
its about right,as most computers made in the last 4 years have at least 40gb
2. i have
the beta version(build 5600) but i shall wait at least 12 months before buying the home premium version ,as this is the cheapest and best which has aero included
3. i have
2 p.c,s and both meet the requirements
4. my main p.c is 3 years old and my second p.c is just 18 months old
5.n/a
6. as one of microsofts employee,s quoted,"vista is dead in the water before it's
started",this was said as like you have stated,vista requires hardware that most(around 60%) of home p.c,s havent got
for example the graphic requirements,pixel and shader model 2.0,the average user dosent even know what a pixel and shader is,and most dont even know what graphic card they have,never mind specs
and even on my main machine which has 1.5gb of ram,vista beta still struggles,so a memory of 2gb is required to run smooothly,and as the average p.c runs around 512mb,vista will be a drag on this
in my opinion vista will be a failure,but will sell a few million units,but i reckon microsoft will bring out a new version of xp,a bells and whistle version with much improved g.u.i(graphic user interface) and direct x 10 compatibilty,as well as more options
i hope this feedback has helped you decide on purchasing vista
nice
luck
