Vista System Requirements anyone?

[RoxStar]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060518-6863.html

 

512mb of ram for basic 1 gig for full

 

Not as bad as some were predicting....

[Nalukai]

15 gigs of free space for the "premium users?" I think I will stick to XP Pro until all the bugs are sorted out at least 8 months after release. I hope it's not a repeat of Win ME...looks good... but not that good, yet, at least.

[TiE23]

Woah, the requirements look real heavy. I have the stuff to run it, but unless I start hearing about games running faster and more stable than XP I won't touch it until it's time to upgrade.

[toms]

If you have a PC with a 1 GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, and a 128MB DirectX 9.0-compliant video card... you'd be insane to install Windows Vista (in our not-so-humble opinions.)

 

Until the OS is shipping, it is difficult to make recommendations that we can stick by, but our own experience with the recent beta release and other builds leads us to suggest the following emendation to Microsoft's specs: you should have a 2.5 GHz Intel-compatible "P4 generation" processor or better (which includes the newer, lower-clocked Core Solos and Duos) to even think about upgrading. 1GB of RAM will see you through tough times, but Jean Claude Van Dam would mostly certainly want 2GB of RAM in his system before fighting for the free world. We think you should plan on it, too.

 

Well, i didn't upgrade to XP until Doom3.. so i'll certainly wait a year or so and see how it all pans out.. not that it would be worth installing on my system at the moment anyway. But at the moment i've gotta say i'm severley tempted to go for a macbook pro and use OSX as my main environment and dual boot to XP for games.

[Lorden Darkblade]

Looks like Vista is going to be heavy...

I'm going to wait at least a year to think about installing it, took me that long to just THINK about XP

I do hope that it's more stable then XP and runs game faster or anything >_>

[El Sitherino]

15 gigs for an OS?

 

**** that, I don't need that in my life.

[RoxStar]

15 gigs for swap space for all of the multimedia features i believe...

[jon_hill987]

Considering the OS is supposed to be "faster" and "more efficient" it sure wants a lot of juice...

 

So the question for me is do i replace my 2 and a half year old (I know it is old) laptop now or wait for them to come with vista?

[MrWally]

My compy isn't even a full year old and I'm probably going to want to upgrade it before running vista...

 

...grrrr microsoft...

[Boba Rhett]

XP Pro is only costing me ten bucks a copy. I think I'll stick with it for a while and let bugs get ironed out of Vista.

 

 

plus I could barely run vista.

[Alegis]

I think I will stick to XP Pro until all the bugs are sorted out at least 8 months after release.

I can assure you Quality Assurance is working adequately right now. Microsoft also hands out nice monetary awards for employees that submit bug report right now. I believe you're exaggerating if you think the product will be that faulty at retail.

[Boba Rhett]

Everything is faulty at retail.

[Kylilin]

I'm not going to get vista any time soon. I'll stick with XP.

[TiE23]

I'm not going to get vista any time soon. I'll stick with XP.

You don't come here very often, do ya?

 

I remember you anyway, long time ago, though.

[Alegis]

YAY FINALLY

 

Dear Longhorn / Windows Vista Beta Tester,

 

If you wish to receive physical media for Beta 2, please ensure you complete the following survey.

 

As I have sucky sucky bandwidth limits (10gb/month) can't afford to download 3.5gb builds so got left out of the boat quite early. Anyways, I'm looking forward to the build for playin around a bit. The first one I got (~september) wasn't really great on resources.

[Samnmax221]

I need a new computer anyway, I'm sick of XP, I'm gonna take the plunge

[toms]

So basically you can run vista in

XP mode: 800Ghz, 512Mb, 20gb...

....or you can enable a pretty mac lone shell and double the requirements to

OSX Mode: 1ghz+, 1Gb, 40Gb plus 128MB graphics card??

 

WTF?? How can microsoft have "borrowed" the mac styling, made it look worse, and then managed to make it SO resource heavy that it nearly doubles the requirements of the PC needed to run the operating system??

You can already get plugins for XP that make it look like a mac, add a sidebar and desktop widgets, add saved search folders (only decent in vista thing imho) and add transparent windows... and you could run an XP machine, with all those extra components, and still have requirements way under vista.

 

Surreal...

[TiE23]

I wonder if they even know what they are doing. :\

 

Because it would suck to get lag on the desktop.

[RoxStar]

Keep in mind, vista isn't all about pretty things on the desktop. Lots of multimedia things (think Win XP Media Center Edition) dicrectx10 and improved networking as well as a plethera of other features are promised.

 

Although XP Pro and Win2k are the os's that I will use/ continue to use unless they really draw me in.

[Sabretooth]

Yeah, well once Vista goes out there will be plenty of software that'll make your XP look like Vista. There will be IE7, DX10, Vista themes and god knows what else.

 

Personally, I won't be getting Vista for like two years, till I get a major upgrade.

[toms]

You can already get vista themes for xp. And run them on a less powerful PC.

 

- the MCE thing is interesting.. but then you could always just get something like Yahoo Go Tv... and to use it decently you'd still need a TV card etc.. or you might as well just use an xbox/360.

 

- the improved networking - i can only say about damn time.

 

- the DX10 thing is such a con that it just bugs me. they are obviously doing it purely to force people to upgrade to Vista cos they know otherwise no-one would want to. Hopefully someone will hack DX10 to work on XP.

 

- none of that seems worth opening myself up to the joys of "trusted computing".

[Good Sir Knight]

It's a complete rewrite correct? I'm thinking its a system hog still...probably more so... *sigh*

 

I'll wait a while and then borrow a copy from my twin bro... hey it's not pirating, we share everything!

[Prime]

I can assure you Quality Assurance is working adequately right now. Microsoft also hands out nice monetary awards for employees that submit bug report right now. I believe you're exaggerating if you think the product will be that faulty at retail.

Can we store this post somewhere? It may be nice to have down the line.

 

And why exactly do I need to upgrade to this?

[RoxStar]

The only incentive I see is for "extra" security or games *shrug*

[Alegis]

You don't Prime. It's an option available to you, but no one forces you.

 

And I do wish Microsoft wouldn't try so hard to get "Exclusive for Vista" stamps on so many products that can run on XP otherwise.