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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. To paraphrase... by Petersko · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    " just picked up a "spare" thinkpad T21 (PIII 800MHz, 384MB RAM). I booted Puppy Linux [puppylinux.org], and after about 5 minutes figuring out where Puppy stores the WEP key, had that box on line. It's rocket fast and requires no tweaking. I was blown away with how well I could open word and excel documents from OWA. New OS' from Redmond always need more CPU and RAM. Interestingly, I was also recently shocked at how usable Tiger was on a G3 233 with 256MB RAM. DARN usable. Try that with a current MS OS and hardware built in 1999! :)"

    Translation: "Windows is a hog. I heart linux. Mod me up!"

    Sure you want to go out on a limb like that here on slashdot?