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Bulky System Requirements for Windows Vista
unsurreal writes ""A Tech Strategist within Microsoft, Nigel Page, has gone on record to discuss the hardware requirements for Windows Vista, due out next Christmas." The next year is going to be an interesting one as hardware vendors smile towards the shocking new recommended hardware needed for the next generation Windows operating system." From the article: "Graphics: Vista has changed from using the CPU to display bitmaps on the screen to using the GPU to render vectors. This means the entire display model in Vista has changed. To render the screen in the GPU requires an awful lot of memory to do optimally - 256MB is a happy medium, but you'll actually see benefit from more. Microsoft believes that you're going to see the amount of video memory being shipped on cards hurtle up when Vista ships." Coverage available at Tom's Hardware as well, with a semi-transcript at Tech Ed.
Let's see a link to a $600 SFF PC that far outclasses the mac mini.
The current situation is that Windows XP provides all the functionality that most people need. Further, a 128-megabyte Pentium-III-powered box running at 500 megahertz is all the horsepower that most people need.
Bill Gates is notorious for saying that "640K ought to be enough for anybody." and "No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer."
No wonder you decided to stay anonymous!!!
*most* PC laptops aren't as powerful as a mac mini. They have crapy low end CPUs that make a 1.42 GHz G4 look blazingly fast.
Also, I have a 12" powerbook which is tiny as laptops go, and if you say laptops are more compact that a mac mini, you haven't seen a mac mini.
Nice try, but a Celeron does not out perform a G4 at comparable clock speed. The XPC K is so big and heavy compared to a mini, why even bother with SFF if you're going to get that?
Any form factor?
Okay, you put a $600 X86 PC in a 6.5x6.5x2" box (including optical drive and wifi) and we'll do our speed test.