Half of PC's not ready for Vista
Friday, April 7, 2006 by Island Dog | Discussion: Personal Computing
How surprising this is. 2gig of RAM for "added" performance.
"While nearly every current PC will be able to run Windows Vista, only half will be able to take full advantage of all of it's features, a recent study by research firm Gartner suggests. In turn, the firm is urging IT managers to take caution when ordering new PCs.
Today's average processor and hard drive should be sufficient to install and use Vista, Gartner says. However, a newer graphics card is likely required if the user wishes to take advantage of the Aero user interface, and the computer should have at least 1GB of memory installed for the operating system to run smoothly."
http://www.betanews.com/article/Report_Half_of_PCs_Not_VistaReady/1144422884
Reply #2 Friday, April 7, 2006 1:06 PM
I believe there is a "Optimization" step in the building of a Microsoft (or any good software) product, which focuses on providing the best support base for consumers and company alike.
It is still quite early to make any concrete statements on what current mainstream machines will and will not run Vista with full functionality. 
Reply #3 Friday, April 7, 2006 1:10 PM
Reply #4 Friday, April 7, 2006 1:38 PM
So what is the problem with needing a more powerful system to run Vista? More money for new parts? Hell, everything drops price so fast now a days that by the time Vista is out, chances are you would pay as much for a new system then than you would for it now.
Regardless if they're PC geeks or amatures, they all want more power and better performance. Microsoft is just taking advantage of it.
Right now, there are PC's out there that are more powerful that what XP needs to run smoothly. If they can afford that then I don't see the problem.
Reply #5 Friday, April 7, 2006 2:13 PM
I use a 266 laptop/32 megs of ram and it doesn't seem slow to me for just email, surfing, etc., and it streams music from the net without a hiccup. I admit that for gaming people are beginning to need more advanced rigs, but for the tasks mentioned in #4 you can go back a long way and still be comfortable. The problems with slow computers are malware and idiotic programs runnning in the background 99% of the time.
The real annoyance will be the people that buy machines in the months running up to the Vista release who find that their machines aren't even upgradable to the Vista standards.
Reply #6 Friday, April 7, 2006 2:35 PM
| 2gig of RAM for "added" performance |
and i thought that when i added to my pc 1 Gb more it was goin to get even more faster, now i have to buy an other one?!?
NO WAY! i'll keep my Xp system
......thankx for the info, Island Dog!
oh! i forget to mention that i get the news that Halo 2 for pc would come out just for Windows Vista!!! imagine that! now, if whant to buy that game, i also have to get another Gb., to prevent that my pc freeze.., gg, Bill Gates is an evildoer man
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Reply #9 Friday, April 7, 2006 4:16 PM
| How surprising this is. 2gig of RAM for "added" performance. |
People ask why we need 64bit computers. There is your answer. The physical limitation of 32bit is 4gb. The OS and features are going to push us to 64bit. AMD has a head start. Intel better catch up now.
Reply #10 Friday, April 7, 2006 8:11 PM
Intel is currently working on the "Conroe" chip family and they have successfully put "quad-core" on the die.
There will be a desktop chip, notebook chip, and a server chip. These are due out 2nd or 3rd quarter of 2007, and all have some level of advanced power management incorporated into the chip (similar to the Pentium "M" technology).
We should see more documentation on this family (probably around Vista release, or so).
I believe AMD is working on multiple core chips, but I have only seen a passing article on the Intel "Conroe" family. Intel is hoping to prompt hardware manufacturers to build better power management capable hardware devices that can interact with the new direction for power concerns.
Not sure if this will be 64 bit, 32 bit, or both though. 
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Reply #14 Friday, April 7, 2006 9:03 PM
Well, the articles are a bit confusing with all the naming of technologies, but here is a bite on some Intel 64-bit plans http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/17/intel_plots_4mb_l2_64bit/
A bit dated (March 2006).
Reply #15 Friday, April 7, 2006 9:22 PM
Well, as I know MS, it will take another year or two after release until Vista can be considred ready for PCs.
/Anoher happy Ubuntu user - XP for gaming puposes only
Reply #16 Friday, April 7, 2006 9:46 PM
Also most people don't know that, the glass effect & graphical UI will like be able to run off a DirectX 8 card. I've hearing alot of information that the real GUI elements will be held for DirectX9 cards, so in theory most laptops & desktops with a decent video card will have the effects seen in the CTPs so far.
Can't say in too sure though
Reply #17 Friday, April 7, 2006 10:23 PM
My main concern would be my 64 meg nVidia Geforce TurboCache [TM] graphics card, though it can draw from RAM up to 256mb and supports WB5, per pixel and quite a few graphic intensive games admirably....if it needs upgrading, then so be it.
Reply #18 Saturday, April 8, 2006 11:13 AM
| I don't remember how long the last switch took, but I don't think it took that long once 95 came out, did it? I |
This one will be a lot faster, if for no other reason than it is way overdue. We got 32bit computing long before we needed the memory addresses. We need the memory addresses NOW, not tomorrow.
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Reply #1 Friday, April 7, 2006 12:46 PM