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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. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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