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jturnbull

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#10562 28-Nov-2006 22:32

What are the hardware requirements for Microsoft Windows Vista?

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#54068 28-Nov-2006 22:35

get the CD tie it to a brick and throw it out the window

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#54070 28-Nov-2006 22:38

Hope this helps...

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#54071 28-Nov-2006 22:41

bradstewart:
Vista Capable Vista Premium Ready
Processor 800 MHz 1 GHz
Memory 512 MB RAM 1 GB RAM
Graphics Card DirectX 9 capable DirectX 9 capable GPU with Hardware Pixel Shader v2.0 and WDDM Driver support
Graphics Memory N/A 128 MB RAM supports up to 2,756,000 total pixels (e.g. 1920 × 1200) or 512 MB+ for greater resolutions such as 2560x1600
HDD capacity 20 GB 40 GB
HDD free space 15 GB 15 GB
HDD type Normal Normal, but hybrid flash memory/hard disk drive recommended
Other drives N/A DVD-ROM

Hope this helps....

Vista Capable	Vista Premium Ready
Processor	800 MHz	1 GHz
Memory	512 MB RAM	1 GB RAM
Graphics Card	DirectX 9 capable	DirectX 9 capable GPU with Hardware Pixel Shader v2.0 and WDDM Driver support
Graphics Memory	N/A	128 MB RAM supports up to 2,756,000 total pixels (e.g. 1920 × 1200) or 512 MB+ for greater resolutions such as 2560x1600
HDD capacity	20 GB	40 GB
HDD free space	15 GB	15 GB
HDD type	Normal	Normal, but hybrid flash memory/hard disk drive recommended
Other drives	N/A	DVD-ROM

what size brick Brad

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#54072 28-Nov-2006 22:43

Roughly the same size as a PC i believe... So a very large one

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#54074 28-Nov-2006 22:47

where would one get a brick that large?

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#54077 28-Nov-2006 23:10

satellitesam: where would one get a brick that large?

A few concrete blocks with a rope running through the holes in the middle should do the trick

jturnbull

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#54103 29-Nov-2006 03:18

re the brick comments... "just say 'NO' to drugs", boys!!

The 2nd part of my original question was deleted by the moderator, but I am not sure why? It was the more interesting part!

So can I repeat it?!

I was told, but found it hard to believe, that modern Dual Core processors are still only 32-bit, not 64-bit, so cannot take proper advantage of Vista. Is this true?!

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#54132 29-Nov-2006 10:52

Actually your original post was blank for some reason. The moderator just put you qyuestion there.

Vista comes in both x86 and x64 editions of all Vista flavours. x64 does have its advantages, it is much more stable and faster, though I've found the x86 RTM to be rock solid. But the driver support for x64 is lacking.

I have a 64bit processor (Athlon 64) but run the x86 version because of the driver support issue.

All the Conroe Core 2 chips are EMT64 and the Memron Core Mobile chips from July 2006 onwards are EMT64. Even some earlier P4, P4HT and Pentium Extreme CPUs are EMT64

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#54256 30-Nov-2006 02:57

Thanks Brad!!

That exactly answered my question!!

I checked my new Dell laptop (Lattitude D620) and bummer - Dual Core proc is x86.

My home pc is also an Athlon64 - but I take your point that it is wiser to run the x86 version until all the drivers are available.

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#56266 24-Dec-2006 01:23

Thats absolutely colossal. My PDA here is only 400mhz, 64mb of ram and it has wireless stuff and internet and applications and all sorts. Why on earth would somebody want a PC in a box the size of umm...well a big ATX box with hundreds and hundreds of megs of ram just to support the operating system?

Dude I think Im just gonna buy a 500mhz PC for $50 from super shed and load on linux.

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#56269 24-Dec-2006 08:26

You can buy a 500MHz PC and run Linux on it, but you won't be able to play some games, or run some office applications. Like it or not, people want more on their PCs. Store pictures, family video, transfer the videos from a PC to a DVD, download and play high graphics games.

You can't do these things on a 400MHz PDA. The CPUs are different, and a 400MHz dsktop CPU processes things in a way much different than a low power 400MHz PDA CPU. The video processing on a PDA does not have capability to process full screen video at higher rates, and let alone encode this to put on a DVD.

PDAs a re limited mainly by the battery life, and adding phone, wireless LAN and Bluetooth only reduces expected battery. Use a VGA screen on a PDA and the batterywill last even less.

Those are different classes of devices and I don't think it's fair comparing that.