Vista Requirments: wtf?

[adiment]

Hefty hardware requirements for Windows Vista[/b]

 Hardware vendors are going to love the news that Windows Vista is going to need very beefy hardware to run well. At Microsoft's TechEd conference, Dan Warne finally managed to squeeze blood from a stone

[mobrien_12]

It runs faster than XP... but only a rig thats ten times more powerful than XP's requirements.... and it has to run encryption/decryption routines on its main peripheral bus to do it...ok does anyone see the logic here?

If you don't comply with PVP, we're going to downscale the quality upon playback

[Refalm]

You know, I had a choice when I bought parts for my computer.

I choose IDE instead of SATA. So now I can't use Windows Vista (not that I wanted to anyway) because I have IDE? Fuck that!

Also, Microsoft is going to upset quite some gamers by making the desktop OpenGL'ed and requirering 256 MB of video memory to run properly!
Microsoft is fucking nuts!

[Aloone_Jonez]

I know MS has a history of having unreasonable system requirements, but this really takes the piss which is why I don't believe this, it must be bullshit. There's no way they'll be able to sell Vista if t requires hardware as powerfull as this to run, perhapps this is only with all the eye candy and 3D special effects turned on.

[Jenda]

This is just insane. Fortunately it doesn't concern me at all.

[Commander]

man! when vista comes out, those machines running vista will cost like 4-5 grand.  I'm not upgrading from xp sp1.  fuck.. even sp2 slows down my machine.  and also by the time vista comes out, suse will be taking over all of my windows xp needs. *fingers crossed*

[Lead Head]

thats a huge jump from from the minimum 233MHz cpu for XP. i need windows for gamin, i use linux for everything else, if they make me upgrade to vista....................

[piratePenguin]

if they make me upgrade to vista....................

Who's gonna make ya?

Microsoft doesn't control which software you choose to put on your computer. You do.

[WMD]

"If you move from 32 to 64 bit, you basically need to at least double your memory. 2 gigs in 64 bit is the equivalent of a gig of RAM on a 32bit machine. That's because you're dealing with chunks that are twice the size...

What the fuck?

[Jack2000]

Muhahahhahahahha "}

Told you .. :Pp

But you would not listen now would you!!!!!
But noooooo instead you come and say ooh the big bad M$ is gona take our cash

You should have listen to the guy with internal sources(hell every bulgarian is going to tell you everything (as long as you are bulgarian too))

Now suck on M$ big rocket or revert to 98 \ Unix

[Aloone_Jonez]

WMD, this proves to me that this whole article is complete and utter bullcrap. I'd stoped reading before I got to this point, now it's totally lost the smallest bit of credibility it had.

[piratePenguin]

Muhahahhahahahha "}

Told you .. :Pp

But you would not listen now would you!!!!!
But noooooo instead you come and say ooh the big bad M$ is gona take our cash

You should have listen to the guy with internal sources(hell every bulgarian is going to tell you everything (as long as you are bulgarian too))

Now suck on M$ big rocket or revert to 98 \ Unix

Wha?

[Jack2000]

I said that i informed all of you about vista but back then you just ignored me

[piratePenguin]

I said that i informed all of you about vista but back then you just ignored me

Oh.
I saw "Pp" and thought you were referring to me (after a few reads, even).
I still don't know what posts/threads you're talking about though.

[adiment]

You know, I had a choice when I bought parts for my computer.

I choose IDE instead of SATA. So now I can't use Windows Vista (not that I wanted to anyway) because I have IDE? Fuck that!

Also, Microsoft is going to upset quite some gamers by making the desktop OpenGL'ed and requirering 256 MB of video memory to run properly!
Microsoft is fucking nuts!

It'll still work [like crap] on systems that don't meet MS's requirments. My friend tried the beta and it took 700mbs of ram just to idle on desktop. :scared:

SATA isn't even worth it for for the extra 17mbps of transfer. PATA 133 is not far from SATA, PATA HDD's with 16mb cache are almost as good as the best SATA drive (10,000rpm Raptor, 74gb, 8mb cache), not to mention much cheaper.