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Projected 'Average' Longhorn System Is A Whopper
greg_barton writes "At first I thought this was a joke, but this article from Microsoft Watch confirms it: 'Microsoft is expected to recommend that the 'average' Longhorn PC feature a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today.'"
640K was enough for anyone. Reckon not....
We got to the moon on less computing power than a Commodore 64 and Longhorn needs 2 Gigs o RAM. Amazing.
When longhorn comes out in 2008.
It takes a lot of resouces to keep people shackled.
..that'd better be one hell of a game of Solitaire.
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computers in the future will be better than the ones we have now.
on a side note, i can't wait to get one of those.
zing
They will send me one of those machines if I offer to test Longhorn for them? - Please... I promise to keep Longhorn on the machine for at least a week.
- Your stupidity got you into this mess, why can't it get you out? -Will Rogers
Now IE will run as fast as its linux-based counterparts!
*ducks*
Wow, with that kind of processing power you can play a heck of a lot of games of Global Thermonuclear War!
~~Guildencrantz
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...or he'll be spinning in his grave.
Imagine what? I'd imagine with Longhorn installed on those, it would about the equivalent of 2 486's running windows 95 :P
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If the current state of Windows security is anything to go by, and if Joe Average has an 802.11g card in his machine in the future, we'll all have free internet via our neighbours poorly secured wireless link. Go Microsoft! :)
If I said something embarrassing I would want to deny it too.
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
"Did Bill Gates Really Say That?"
Yes he did.
"False memes that never die just make people look ignorant."
Quoting Wired is the sign of ignorance.
What the artcile didn't say was that this computing power was needed primarily for a new feature of Longhorn - the Microsoft Streaming Patch System or MSPS.
If one graphs Microsoft's patch releases over time, it is clear that the time between patches approaches zero. No one likes to patch a aysstem, just to see the next day a new patch or twelve have been released over night!
So the MSPS will stream patches to all servers in a continuous feed. Of course, to install these patches takes bandwidth (1 GB Either), to download, both CPU power (dual 4GHz) and ram (2 GB) to install and a lot of room (1 TB to be exact) to store them all.
+1 Sarcastic
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
In a response to Microsofts recommendations, Windows users today recommended that "For that hardware, Longhorn better have an average uptime of 200 years, a no-virus lifetime guarantee and a paper clip with a 180 IQ AI system that can actually tell that you really want to write a letter by reading your mind and can write your 50 page report for you."
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Let's go smash some looms.
How can you imply that Mozilla is bloated.
It doesn't even have a built in operating system.
Didn't you hear? Longhorn is written in Java.
my dual proc G5 makes the spec.... oh wait
On the other hand, by the time longhorn comes around...
Mac OS will still be more technically advanced than Longhorn.
The new apple PCs will only run at 3ghz or so, but will continue to completely school anything from Intel/Microsoft.
The OS will still comfortably run on an 800mhz G4
Steve jobs will manage to create a pointing device with no buttons at all. Mac users will claim this to be a revolutionary feature.
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
Bah. And I suppose next youre going to tell me that Kevin Mitnick never hacked into a computer by whisling hayes modem codes into a prison telephone.
"640k ought to be enough for anyone" -- Bill Gates
There, feel better now?
but it is a public secret that such a system should also have:
;)
- a USB microwave installed
- a deflector shield
- 2 plasma coils
- a fusion reactor a power supply
- seatbelts
- BIO-DRM-authentication
and so on
Privacy is terrorism.
Why 1 terabyte of hard drive space?
Then I remembered that the dafault is for the OS to handle the pagefile size.
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Two words.
Clippy's back.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine...
Okay, I know I'm way off topic but I read the article in that link and I'd really like to know what the following at the bottom of the article was all about:
Other favorite feedback from this column: A woman (a Wal-Mart shopper, no doubt) emailed in outrage that I had used the word "blow job" in a public forum. "You are disgusting," she messaged. "How dare you use a word like 'blow-job' in your column, you fucking moron?"
Wow. I mean.. just... Wow.
I'm a 2000 man.
Read the effing article, they're finally taking out Notepad and forcing you to use Wordpad, aka write.exe. That's why the specs are so high. Nobody else here seems to have noticed. Write is a pretty CPU intensive piece of software.
Yours Sincerely, Michael.
It doesn't even have a built in operating system. Or a lisp interperter, or a text editor!! Its a terrible emacs clone!
--- Justin Dearing http://www.justaprogrammer.net/ We're just programmers.
Longhorn will be your media server (replacing the cable box, VCR, Tivo, and DVD player), play games via your television (replacing game consoles), interface with any networkable appliance in your home (refrigerator, heating and cooling system, alarm system) and provide a centralized control panel...
That high-end PC will sit in a closet and be accessed via 5.8ghz wi-fi through a set-top box attached to your HD capable TV, thin client portables, and touch screens on your "Longhorn Enabled" appliances.
Your Longhorn PC will be on the net and everything connected to it will be accessible (i.e. check your refrigerator inventory via a personalized web-based panel so you can prep a grocery list to pick up on the way home). Eventually, you'll walk into your house on a 48 degree (farenheit) winter day, and your home will be a sweltering 95 degrees (farenheit) inside, courtesy of the W64.HVACdemon virus, written by some pointy-headed 15 year old in Holland.
That's Bill's ultimate goal: to squeeze Microsoft "technology" into every nook and cranny of your life until everything you do has some Microsoft code enabling it or making it inaccessible unless you pay Bill. And that's why such huge specs are needed.
-- Greg
Start a happiness pandemic
Yes, of course, so that the viruses can run faster, corrupt a greater amount of data and spread more efficiently.
I'm not really a web designer, I just play one on the Internet.
the guys at NetBSD have decided that Longhorn will not be the only OS to run on a Whopper and have ported NetBSd to run on various burgers including the Whopper, Big Mac, and all of Wendy's architectures.
No, those specs are fine. Microsoft is about to announce that Longhorn will debut in 2007
He said cite it -- not recite it.
There's an early scene where the crew is coming out of hibernation and a computer screen is slowly scrolling text. One of the partygores said, "One hundred years from now and they still haven't done anything about how slow Windows boots up?"
Someone piped up, "Of course they've done something - they're shipping a hibernation unit with each copy!"
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Of course we need 2 gigs of RAM! How else could we run the new and improved animated Paperclip?
I am posting with Safari which has about five windows open, each with about 20 tabs.
.. err ... better than yours)
Beat that!
(My browser is bigger
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You call that making perfect sense? Was it even english?
Maybe that's why it's taking so long to release Longhorn.... they're still trying to compile it!
The first one that comes to my mind is "Eight to Twelve Years at Hard Labor" but I'm perhaps a little too quick to rule out capital measures.
Well, to be fair, emacs doesn't have a text editor either.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
So, "requirements" are:
-Gigabit ethernet,
-2 Gigs of RAM,
-802.11g and bluetooth,
-dual core@4 GhZ (well OK, dual proc @ 2x2 GhZ),
-half a terabyte of storage
Oh, wait... Is microsoft saying we should be getting today's Powermac to run their 2006 OS?
*ducks*
Hello! I'm a disaster waiting to happen!
how else will skynet have enough juice to defend the country?
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He wasn't talking about memory, he was talking about dollars earned per minute. And he didn't mean anyone, he meant himself.
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