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toadlife

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Re: Vista public BETA released
« Reply #30 on: 17 June 2006, 09:55 »
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But isn't that stupid?

Surly they should make it so it runs on hardware at least two years old? Personally I'd like them set the minimum requirements for a typical five year old machine.

I don't see any reason why it wouldn't run on a five year old computer. I just threw out an Athlon 750 machine that would have run Vista just fine. It was six years old.  The computers I tested on ran it with all of the fancy effects activated and it ran very fast - just as fast as XP. ON older machines you would have to turn down the graphical effects (it can revert all the way back to the "Windows Classic" look), but the security features, which I think are the best part of Vista would still be there.
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Re: Vista public BETA released
« Reply #31 on: 17 June 2006, 11:46 »
Don't believe you, my machine is less than five years old and it won't run Vista, unless you've upgraded your five year old machine which is of course cheating.
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Re: Vista public BETA released
« Reply #32 on: 17 June 2006, 18:11 »
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I don't see any reason why it wouldn't run on a five year old computer. I just threw out an Athlon 750 machine that would have run Vista just fine. It was six years old.  The computers I tested on ran it with all of the fancy effects activated and it ran very fast - just as fast as XP. ON older machines you would have to turn down the graphical effects (it can revert all the way back to the "Windows Classic" look), but the security features, which I think are the best part of Vista would still be there.

What are the specs on this "typical" 5 year old machine may I ask ?

Oh, and yes I have to agree XP is faster than an old granny in a tar pit.
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Re: Vista public BETA released
« Reply #33 on: 17 June 2006, 22:59 »
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but the security features, which I think are the best part of Vista would still be there.
Oh yes, the wonderful security features ;)
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Re: Vista public BETA released
« Reply #34 on: 18 June 2006, 01:36 »
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What are the specs on this "typical" 5 year old machine may I ask ?

Oh, and yes I have to agree XP is faster than an old granny in a tar pit.

Here's the "average" pre built PC specs of Dells in 2001:
866 Mhz P III CPU
SoundBlaster Live!
Nvidia Riva TNT2
200W Power Supply
128 MB PC-133 RAM
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Aloone_Jonez

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Re: Vista public BETA released
« Reply #35 on: 18 June 2006, 04:09 »
And bullshit will Vista run on that, infact XP would struggle to run on a machine that slow which says something as it's the year it was released.
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Re: Vista public BETA released
« Reply #36 on: 18 June 2006, 04:19 »
My point exactly ... I would really like to see toadlife actually support his arguments for M$ will a little more evidence and details ... and less bullshit ...
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Re: Vista public BETA released
« Reply #37 on: 18 June 2006, 04:54 »
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Don't believe you, my machine is less than five years old and it won't run Vista, unless you've upgraded your five year old machine which is of course cheating.

A typical five year old PC would need a RAM upgrade to run Vista. 512MB of ram.
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Re: Vista public BETA released
« Reply #38 on: 18 June 2006, 05:48 »
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I don't see any reason why it wouldn't run on a five year old computer.


Quote from: Toadlife
A typical five year old PC would need a RAM upgrade to run Vista. 512MB of ram.


Okay, by that logic, I could put $5,000 worth of hardware into my 450 MHz P3's box and say that I'm running Vista Ultimate Edition flawlessly on an eight-year-old system.  I'm sorry, but I call bullshit.
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Re: Vista public BETA released
« Reply #39 on: 18 June 2006, 06:23 »
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A typical five year old PC would need a RAM upgrade to run Vista. 512MB of ram.

Let's say its a 1GHz PC with 512MB RAM. It'll run Vista ok, but something makes me think it's not gonna cooperate well with Aero
 
 
I for one don't plan on trading in XP for Vista. Infact, once they start to make everything want Vista, I plan on single-booting my x86 as Linux only :-D
 
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Re: Vista public BETA released
« Reply #40 on: 18 June 2006, 06:26 »
YOU'RE ALL THE FUCKING SAME!!! GET OFF MY FUCKING PORCH!!!

W1NDOWS 5UX0RS!!!!!...

Fuck I'm on Windows right now... only because I bought Macromedia Flash Pro 8. FUCK THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY! I need an outlet for my creative energy...

Yeah yeah yeah Vista blah blah blah
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Re: Vista public BETA released
« Reply #41 on: 18 June 2006, 06:58 »
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Okay, by that logic, I could put $5,000 worth of hardware into my 450 MHz P3's box and say that I'm running Vista Ultimate Edition flawlessly on an eight-year-old system.  I'm sorry, but I call bullshit.

First of all, I never said "ultimate edition". Ultimate edtion comes with all kinds of medi features, which you wouldn't want to even think about using on a five year old box, regardless of the OS.

Second of all, all that would be needed on that example Dell box posted earlier would be a RAM upgrade, which would cost around $60. Not $5000.

With a proper amount of RAM vista sans the aero eye-candy would run fine.
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Re: Vista public BETA released
« Reply #42 on: 18 June 2006, 07:00 »
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Let's say its a 1GHz PC with 512MB RAM. It'll run Vista ok, but something makes me think it's not gonna cooperate well with Aero
 

Uhhh. Yeah. I didn't mention it because I though it would be obvious, but I guess the obvious isn't so obvious to folks around here. :nothappy:
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Re: Vista public BETA released
« Reply #43 on: 18 June 2006, 07:05 »
Well Aero must be one bloated piece of shit considering Xgl runs dreamy (by that I mean: no obvious performance difference) on my Athlon XP 2600+, 256 MB RAM, radeon 9600
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Re: Vista public BETA released
« Reply #44 on: 18 June 2006, 07:36 »
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Uhhh. Yeah. I didn't mention it because I though it would be obvious, but I guess the obvious isn't so obvious to folks around here. :nothappy:

Yeah anybody who dislikes the actions of Microsoft must be a total idiot... :thumbup:
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