Windows Vista Capable Machines Coming

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?"

Comments

Re:Nearly a year to go

[CastrTroy]

None of the Sub $1000 CDN Dells come with anything but an Intel onboard video card. I'm pretty sure those crap cards won't run Aero Glass. Aero glass is the only good feature of windows Vista. Oh, and IE 7, which has tabs. But that's crap anyway, because you could just user Firefox, which has had tabs forever, and has CSS 2 support. There is no reason for the user to run windows Vista except aero glass, and none of the machines that Joe Sixpack will actually buy will even be capable of running vista. And no matter how nice Vista looks, I don't think Dell is going to be able to convince the guy who wants to spend $500, to spend $1500.

Re:Vista capable?

[Bing Tsher E]

Try telling that to the KDE and Gnome developers. (It's senseless to argue such matters with Microsoft.)