lonebyrd

Apr 2 2006, 10:57 AM

After reading that, I'm a little confused. I thought M$ was coming out with Vista, where did this Aero thing come from? And from the looks of it, who would actually buy that with the requirements you have to meet. I may just have to learn what all this Linux stuff is all about after all

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Transcendum

Apr 2 2006, 12:36 PM

QUOTE(marretas @ Mar 30 2006, 10:27 AM)

Microsoft announced in a site what are the minium requests to be able to run without problems o WindowsVista. According to Microsoft any modern CPU from Intel AMD and Via will do, 512 Mb Minium memories, a graphics card with DirectX 9 are more than enough to run the new operative System.[/url]

Actually, marretas, it's not more than enough. It's not even close to enough .

Remember when Microsoft declared that Windows 2000 required a minimum of 32MB RAM? Well, basically, that meant that unless you have 128MB RAM, you're screwed. I suppose they use a different dialect of English at Microsoft.

So I agree with wutske on his estimations. A minimum of 700MB RAM will be required to run Vista with acceptable performance.

QUOTE(lonebyrd @ Mar 30 2006, 10:27 AM)

After reading that, I'm a little confused. I thought M$ was coming out with Vista, where did this Aero thing come from?

Vista is the name of the new operating system. Aero is the visual styling (or perhaps, more properly named, the rendering engine) of Vista. It refers to the mechanism and style according to which Vista will look. If you've ever seen the glass-look of Mac, you know what that is . But anyway, you can simply take the quick tour available at Microsoft's Website to have a look at what Vista with Aero looks like.

 

 

 

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Apr 3 2006, 05:47 AM

QUOTE(Logan Deathbringer @ Apr 2 2006, 11:46 PM)

The one question I have, and have yet to get a straight answer to is, Is windows Vista a 64 bit system or is it 32 bit, or does it support both?

Windows Vista is going to support 64-Bit system by default. So if your hardware is 64-Bit, you'll be able to get the most out of your processor and hardware. But if your hardware is 32-Bit, then Vista will adapt itself accordingly and work as a normal 32-Bit operating system .

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Logan Deathbringer

Apr 3 2006, 10:47 PM

QUOTE(Transcendum @ Apr 2 2006, 10:47 PM)

Windows Vista is going to support 64-Bit system by default. So if your hardware is 64-Bit, you'll be able to get the most out of your processor and hardware. But if your hardware is 32-Bit, then Vista will adapt itself accordingly and work as a normal 32-Bit operating system .

Thanks for that, I'd heard that it was going to be native 64 bit but I was afraid that it was going to leave the 32 bit world behind. Thanks for the info, up till now I'd only seen 32 bit versions of Vista and was thinking that they were going to have a 32 bit version and a 64 bit version, kinda like they do with XP.

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xboxrulz

Apr 4 2006, 12:24 AM

so it's like Linux (about 64/32-bit). M$ is having a hard time catching up to Linux on power. Linux is having trouble catching up with Windows on the desktop. It's like Yingyang. Darkness is M$ and the whiteness is Linux

xboxrulz

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blacksadness

Apr 26 2006, 04:27 AM

QUOTE(xboxrulz @ Apr 4 2006, 02:24 AM)

so it's like Linux (about 64/32-bit). M$ is having a hard time catching up to Linux on power. Linux is having trouble catching up with Windows on the desktop. It's like Yingyang. Darkness is M$ and the whiteness is Linux

xboxrulz

i don't think Linux has trouble catching up on the desktop that much i find GNOME more user friendly and easier to use then the windows interface, now the problem is mostly that users got used to the windows interface they refuse to try another one.
now about vista I'm really not that interested in what it has to offer, i think an sp3 to XP would be better until most of the people have enough requirements but i don't really mind let them burn in hell
and the new "looks" in windows vista are already available with project looking glass (although it's CPU hungry) and with XGL (still needs lots of resources too) but not as much as vista i guess.

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