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Preview of Vista On Old Hardware

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the very-crunchy dept.

Grooves writes "According to tests performed by Ars Technica, Windows Vista will need some coddling on old hardware. As a follow-up to their performance review of Vista Beta 2, Ars tested the latest public builds of Vista on hardware spanning from 2001 to a Thinkpad purchased a few months ago. The results show that Vista is extremely RAM hungry, graphical power is less of an issue unless you want eye candy, and hard drive I/O is critical. Also, their experience with 'in-place upgrades' was abysmal, and mirrored my own experiences."

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  1. Nothing for you to see here. Please move along by Klaidas · · Score: 1, Funny

    I guess I won't be able to run it on my old hardware :-D

    1. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along by imboboage0 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Even Windows ME is still run on some computers.

      Where? They must be quarantined!

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  2. Cunning strategy. by Headcase88 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The OS keeps the hardware so busy it doesn't have time to run any viruses. (Or anything else for that matter).

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  3. Will it run on my UNIVAC? by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    And does anyone have a copy on punch cards they could dupe for me? I had the early release candidate all ported over to the UNIVAC standard 90-column cards and ready to go, but during the last inventory I spilled coffee on one of the DLL batches, jumped up in surprise, and accidentally knocked over crate #47,128.

    Will someone please bring me a new rip of Vista right away, or at the very least a large rake?

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  4. Change Everything! Now! by Petersko · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I must be getting old because I don't see what upgrading will do for me. I chug along nicely on my ancient PIII-866, I repaired the motherboard twice now and I have no plans on changing. Besides, all I do is check emails and program a bit of microcontroller code and design some small PCBs, why do I need Vista and a new machine for this? I barely know how the win2k OS really works, now I'm supposed to change everything?"

    You know, the simple fact that somebody is pointing a gun at the back of your head and demanding that you upgrade should be enough to get you to do so.

    Wait... What do you mean, "Nobody's forcing me?" from the tone of your post I could swear your death was imminent, should you choose not to comply.

  5. Re:Why should we really upgrade. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    the world doesn't revolve around you(or me).

    Depends how drunk you are ;-)

  6. Re:hardly anybody installs Windows, it's preloaded by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only getting off the treadmill breaks this loop.

    But all my lights go out when I do that.

    KFG

  7. Re:Vista is just background noise. by mozkill · · Score: 1, Funny

    well, OSX is a huge ripoff of Gnome and KDE.

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