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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. Reading too far in... by sjg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think everyone is reading too far into the whole "vista compatible hardware" racket. It will work on current hardware, it may not work well. So it's in exactly the same boat as every other major software product released in the past 10 years.

    1. Re:Reading too far in... by Myen · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's the same as the "Designed for Windows 98/Me/2000/XP" sticker.

      It's a sticker. Probably shiny.

  2. They will sell "what is hot" even if it crawls. by stm2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I bet for b) and c). I think sellers will want to promote "what is hot", so I don't see them selling XP even if it is better for a given hardware. MS licence allows to sell an older version (up to 2 back versions), but this will be used only for very specific needs. Since I predict there will be apps that won't get together well with Vista, maybe the sellers will sell both systems for a time.

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  3. C, but You're probably too young to remember by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The first time this happened was with regular windows and windows 95... all the machines they put it on were too slow to run it and more than 1 application at a time. That's what they're gonna do for sure. They'll sell you a machine woefully underpowered for the OS, period. No one cares, no one will refund your money, thanks and have a nice day :)

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  4. MOD PARENT UP by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's spot on.

    I know people who have 1.5Ghz processors and 256MB of RAM who complain that Windows XP runs slow on it - and these are "Windows XP ready" machines.

    The machine will run fast enough to get the OS working at a barely reasonable pace, but over time the user will get frustrated with the speed of the system enough to want to upgrade.

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  5. Re:Why not check Microsoft rather than two blogs? by Bushcat · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Yes, you're correct. Following through shows "suitable CPU" means

    Intel: http://www.intel.com/business/bss/products/client/ vistasolutions/index.htm

    AMD: http://www.amd.com/windowsvista

    VIA: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/vista/cpu.jsp

    My problem is with the consistently mediocre reporting, when just a little bit more effort would get to primary sources, rather than this persistent blog banality culture.