Preview of Vista On Old Hardware

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday November 10, 2006 @07:26AM 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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Does anyone want to tell me what.. by the_rajah · 2006-11-10 08:33 · Score: 0, Redundant

actual benefits I might get from running this expensive resource hog called Vista versus XP-Pro behind my firewall with daily updated virus scanning and avoiding IE like the plague it is?

I was slow to move my Windows boxes from 98SE to XP and I'm in no hurry at all to move to Vista.

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