You know, there's a lot of MS bashing on here, but this is a bit over the top....
Anyone should realize that this is a debug release with debug symbols included and probably needs twice the horsepower to get reasonable performance. I wouldn't think the release version would need quite these specs...
Besides, if Longhorn requires all this, just think of how cheap lower spec hardware for all you linux heads will be....
I live in a condo. It was wired for the phone lines using CAT3. They were using 4 of the 8 wires (two twisted pairs) for two-phone line. Guess what? Ethernet only uses 4 wires; the other two twisted pairs in my CAT3 worked great. I put the cable modem in my utility closet and wired the ethernet from there. I just had to put the jacks everywhere there was a phone jack. Not elegant, but you would not have to do any wiring....
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doesn't anyone remember Bam-Bam!!!?
You know, there's a lot of MS bashing on here, but this is a bit over the top.... Anyone should realize that this is a debug release with debug symbols included and probably needs twice the horsepower to get reasonable performance. I wouldn't think the release version would need quite these specs... Besides, if Longhorn requires all this, just think of how cheap lower spec hardware for all you linux heads will be....
I got a few of these colomachine.com machines, they work great, not a lot of horsepower, but for development they do the job.
...is not a guaranteed right in the UK, like in the US.
I live in a condo. It was wired for the phone lines using CAT3. They were using 4 of the 8 wires (two twisted pairs) for two-phone line. Guess what? Ethernet only uses 4 wires; the other two twisted pairs in my CAT3 worked great. I put the cable modem in my utility closet and wired the ethernet from there. I just had to put the jacks everywhere there was a phone jack. Not elegant, but you would not have to do any wiring....
that's weird...