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Windows Vista Capable Machines Coming

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stop-being-an-enabler dept.

An anonymous reader writes "PC World's Techlog has a short piece talking about the upcoming emergence of 'Windows Vista Capable' PCs." From the article: "The Vista Capable designation doesn't promise that a PC will provide a great Vista experience, or even that it'll support all Vista features or features...just that it'll be able to run Windows Vista Home Basic in some not-very-well-defined-but-apparently-adequate way. At the moment, there are still new PCs on store shelves that don't meet the Vista Capable guidelines--for instance, low-end systems still sport 256MB of RAM in some cases. Wonder if that means that that A) we'll see some cheap systems that still have XP even after Vista ships; or B) the specs on even the cheapest machines will be beefed up; or C) we'll see machines that have Vista preloaded but which don't qualify as Vista capable?"

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  1. Why not check Microsoft rather than two blogs? by Bushcat · · Score: 5, Informative
    You could save yourself a pointless tour through two blogs simply by checking the Microsoft site (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/winxp /VistaBeta1FS.mspx) which says:


    Minimum system requirements will not be known until summer 2006 at the earliest. However, these guidelines provide useful estimates:

    " 512 megabytes (MB) or more of RAM

      A dedicated graphics card with DirectX® 9.0 support

      A modern, Intel Pentium- or AMD Athlon-based PC."