Preview of Vista On Old Hardware

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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Nothing for you to see here. Please move along

[Anonymous Coward]

This story is no different than running the latest Linux distribution on old hardware.

Article summary about the same article?

[NineNine]

The article was surprisingly positive. The article summary on Slashdot wasn't. The article summary even said "Also, their experience with 'in-place upgrades' was abysmal,". That simply was not in the article. Has Slashdot stooped to just making shit up, now?

You seem to think M$ force is OK.

[twitter]

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?"

Interesting how that jibes with what you say when talking about Office 2003:

So your principles involve pulling clients into your own holy war and immersing them in technical details that don't directly drive their business? If I was a customer of a business who demanded that I start changing my technical decisions in order to communicate with them, I wouldn't remain their customer long.

So, which is it? Go with the M$ flow to avoid "holy war" or buck the upgrade train because no one is forcing you to do anything?