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One In Two PCs Won't Run Vista's Interface
ThinSkin writes "While integrated graphics seem to handle Windows XP and 2000 just fine, they won't be able to handle Vista's 3D 'Aero Glass' compositor, which will prevent roughly half of all PCs from running Microsoft's new OS. Performance class cards that can handle DirectX 9.0c are up for the challenge." From the article: "After years of delays and several feature revisions, one of Vista's main selling points is the Aero Glass interface. However, as Peddie notes, users already have the ability to start constructing a PC that should be Vista-ready before the OS even ships. Microsoft also said this week that it would reserve its Halo 2 videogame for Vista."
One In Two PCs Won't Run Vista's Interface
That's nothing, zero out of my three PC's will!
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> Hell, go back to 2001, I remember knowing many people
> whose PC's ran awful slow when running XP in Fisher Price
> mode, so they'd revert to the classic look and things
> were fine until they had a slightly better PC a little
> later.
Uh, wait. You say that as if they enabled the Fisher Price style after they got a faster PC.
Dear god...
That's also why they paint the black helicopters white. Bet that doesn't fool you, either.
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...because by the time it's released, those computers will be in a landfill!!
please excuse my apathy
whereas we, hardcore computer users, don't see any benefit of Vista over XP.
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That's what you call over-analyzing.
The simple explanation is that it's simply another article.
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Thank god you said this, As I was reading this my new laptop with GMA950 in it was delivered by FedEx!
Screwit... I'm a hardcore user, and I'm doing just fine with DOS. Why would I want to upgrade to Windows 3.1, 95, 2000 or XP, much less Vista? Do you have any idea how quickly DOS runs on a P4 with a Radeon 9800?
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resolution indepependent, for example
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Does this mean that no matter how large your display, the start menu will cover it all?
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I agree with all of you! My biggest beef with the XP system was all the bubbly "war and fuzzy feelings" interface. Simple is better. I guess that is why I use Solaris more than I use my Window box.
Actually, it would be more like the difference between 10.1 and the upcoming 10.5.
That's a real stretch, unless you're just looking at the length of time between releases. Today's Windows XP SP2 is markedly better than XP RTM, and even that was not as weak as OS X 10.1. Mac OS X has come a long way. Although I look forward to ditching XP for Vista at work, I doubt it is that much of a departure.
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>>>Vista != Vista's 3D Interface
But Aero Glass Does look like an IceWM theme I used to use 3-4 years ago.
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You'll see people modding up totally flawed arguments based on things that aren't true just because they're anti-microsoft.
Even if he had said it, lacking vision of how computers would need more than something that was astronomic cal 25 years ago (in the 80's I had PCs with only a few KBs or only ONE like the ZX81 and such) doesn't mean anything today, taken totally out of context.
The anti-microsoft trolls modding crap like this up are only making slashdot users look retarded. Time to grow up... Hate microsoft all you want (not like I care), but stop modding obviously ridiculous posts up like this!