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what specs are need for using windows vista on the final release
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Posted: 2006-11-17 18:58:57
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Haha, i am going to have Window Vista Ultimate as soon as it gets out, and from where you say? Getting it free from my university, how is that for an upgrade??
Thank god for computer science courses!
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Posted: 2006-11-17 19:04:18
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On 2006-11-17 18:58:57, spikeyjac wrote:
what specs are need for using windows vista on the final release
According to M$ you need at least:
A "modern" processor (at least 800MHz)
512 MB of system memory
A graphics processor that is DirectX 9 capable
They recommend:
1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 GB of system memory
Support for DirectX 9 graphics with a WDDM driver, 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum), Pixel Shader 2.0 and 32 bits per pixel (in English, a cheap AGP, PCI or PCI Express graphics card)
40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
DVD-ROM Drive
From my experience of running the beta versions on various machines, I'd advise at least a 1.6 Ghz Pentium 4, Centrino, Athlon XP, Turion or better processor (not celeron or sempron), definately 1 Gb of RAM and DEFINATELY not on-board graphics!
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Posted: 2006-11-17 19:36:31
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On 2006-11-17 19:36:31, Cycovision wrote:
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On 2006-11-17 18:58:57, spikeyjac wrote:
what specs are need for using windows vista on the final release
According to M$ you need at least:
A "modern" processor (at least 800MHz)
512 MB of system memory
A graphics processor that is DirectX 9 capable
They recommend:
1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 GB of system memory
Support for DirectX 9 graphics with a WDDM driver, 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum), Pixel Shader 2.0 and 32 bits per pixel (in English, a cheap AGP, PCI or PCI Express graphics card)
40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
DVD-ROM Drive
From my experience of running the beta versions on various machines, I'd advise at least a 1.6 Ghz Pentium 4, Centrino, Athlon XP, Turion or better processor (not celeron or sempron), definately 1 Gb of RAM and DEFINATELY not on-board graphics!
these above are for the Vista Basic edition? I thought that there was two sets of minimum specs. for Vista --- one for the really Basic version (looking like windows xp?) and one for the ultimate / higher up / more expensive edition (requiring more ram / cpu clock speed etc.)
my advise, would be: stick with windows xp. it's getting to be quite stable (not quite yet imo though...) and as soon as a new version comes out microsoft basically does there final beta testing, testing it out and fixing it at the expense of their first customer's data and time.
This is why when I buy a laptop, I am going to make sure that it will work totally with linux. There are only a couple of things I have come to not like about ubuntu linux (such as the fact that it: doesn't have too much support for videos when browsing / flash player / macromedia player and also the fact that i dont like having to really eject my flash drive (usb) every time i want to take it out, as it writes the data then and there when you eject --- the result being that when yu copy and paste it is faster.) but other than that it totally rocks
- oh...and for the microsoft office fanatics, you can either use the brilliant openoffice.org or pay $30 out for a crossover licence.
-|- awave
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Posted: 2006-11-17 19:47:20
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You're absolutely right, it's Aero that needs the graphics horsepower so if you're happy with the basic windows interface in Vista, you won't need an additional graphics card.
But I still maintain that for decent performance, you need a reasonably fast processor and 1 gig of memory. This is because even without Aero running, there's still tons of background tasks chugging away. Celeron processors just don't cut the mustard, the L2 cache being the main problem. Semprons fare a little better, particularly the 64bit Semprons with the 64bit edition of Vista but again their not ideal. I came to this conclusion by real life tinkering by the way, not PC enthusiast websites and magazines!
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Posted: 2006-11-17 20:02:50
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what about this one then?
does this:
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/mart[....]=null&sku=186712&category_oid=
or this :
http://www.shopacer.co.uk/ses[....]8LX%3D252EA5105%3D252E671%3D29
meet the specs?
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Posted: 2006-11-17 20:04:35
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Yes, they both meet the specs
Maybe I should make it clear that my suggested specs are for a computer to run Vista Premium with the fancy Aero graphical interface and all of the other bells and whistles at a decent speed.
M$'s specs are fine if you don't expect a blindingly fast PC
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Posted: 2006-11-17 20:12:28
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so with both of those pc's vista shoul run fine?
would it be really slow or ok?
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Posted: 2006-11-17 20:13:51
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@awave: dude, try xgl on umbutu or on gentoo linux, with compiz or Beryl.
Here is a screen of Compiz:
And here is Beryl:
It is like running osx on the pc with linux as the environment, but you can do all the fancy window flips that you can do in osx.
. When you drag the window, it even wobbles
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Posted: 2006-11-17 20:17:04
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It'd be OK on both of them. Definately not slow, but not lightning fast either if you know what I mean
It'd probably run better on the PC World one with 1024Mb (1 gig) of RAM rather than the acer with 512Mb of RAM despite the fact that the acer has a better processor. I'd go for the acer and upgrade the memory to 1 gig if I had enough money left
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Posted: 2006-11-17 20:18:08
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