** Ted Harding Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk [2006-05-19 20:11]:
Hi Folks,
"Microsoft has released 'minimum' and 'recommended' specifications for Vista.
The minimum means that the operating system will run but some new features will be disabled. Recommended means that this is what is needed to get the most basic configuration of the whole package working.
VISTA HARDWARE CHECKLIST Minimum Recommended Processor 800MHz 1GHz 32 or 64 bit System Memory 512MB 1GB Graphics card DirectX 9 capable Runs Windows Aero Graphics Memory - - 128MB Free space on Hard Drive 15GB 15GB
Source: Microsoft"
Well, that's good news! If Vista catches on, there should be a good bit of decent kit coming cheap onto the secondhand market that would run Linux very nicely. Looking forward to that!
** end quote [Ted Harding]
I think they're being more than a little optimistic there aren't they (actually aren't they always?). I have Windows XP running on a 1.2GHz processor with 512MB memory and it runs like a dog - even though it is a very recent installation. Maybe I'm just too used to the performance of my Linux box, but waiting for 10-15 seconds while it gets itself sorted out so I can log on and pausing whilst switching between windows doesn't feel like blistering performance to me.