The "Vista-Capable" Debacle Spreads To Acer

N!NJA writes in with a Register story on a lawsuit filed against Acer for selling Windows Vista on an underpowered notebook. Of course anybody can sue for anything; it will be interesting to see if this action goes forward in the courts. "With a lawsuit filed Wednesday in San Francisco, California, two residents of Fostoria, Ohio seek damages and relief from the world's third-largest computer maker after purchasing a sub-$600 Aspire notebook that included Windows Vista Premium and a gigabyte of shared system and graphics memory. In its official "recommended system requirements," Microsoft recommends that an additional 128MB is required to run the Premium incarnation of its latest desktop operating system. ... Microsoft says that the Premium, Business, and Ultimate editions of Vista will run on 512MB systems — with certain OS features disabled. In the beginning, Redmond called these 'Vista Capable' machines, and it's facing a separate lawsuit over this potentially misleading moniker."

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First post capable

[Anonymous Coward]

This post is capable of being a first post

Remember when a gigabyte of memory was a lot?

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks Vista for making that a thing of the past.

Re:Remember when a gigabyte of memory was a lot?

[Jurily]

How about when a 40MHz 386 with 4MB of RAM, 40MB Hard drive, a 128kb video card was a "killer" machine ;)

Ah yes. Back when they used CPU speed for timing purposes. You bought a new computer, suddenly your favorite game ran 8x as fast, and you died almost immediately. Killer machine indeed.

Re:with certain OS features disabled

[Jurily]

More like "DOS".

Re:512Meg?

[Maelwryth]

"my 512 MB Dell Latitude with its puny 1.5 Ghz Pentium M processor, and it flys!"
Oh, f%$k me! Now I feel old. :(