[clue-talk] MS Vista

[Brian Gibson]

No, they increase hardware requirements to a) support computationally expensive coding or b) to makeup for inefficient coding.  Given MS history of bloatware I'd bet on the latter.  Most of the hardware requirements are used to support Vista Aero UI which is on by default I believe.  Many similar features were pioneered by Apple Aqua and is available to Linux via XGL/Compiz (out-of-the-box in Suse) both of which do it with less hardware.  You can get Aero-like (even Aqua-like) effects on XP via third-parties, most notably Stardock's WindowBlinds and Object Desktop.

Brian

----- Original Message ----
From: Angelo Bertolli <angelo at freeshell.org>
To: CLUE talk <clue-talk at cluedenver.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:27:40 PM
Subject: Re: [clue-talk] MS Vista

dperkins at frii.com wrote:
>> dperkins at frii.com wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I didn't look at the different licenses, so I don't know how it differs
>>> from the home version.  I'm not sure how I feel about only being able to
>>> transfer to another machine only once.  It doesn't seem right, but I
>>> don't
>>> use Windows at home.  Not being to VM it might be a bigger issue for
>>> people.
>>>       
>> It's fun to watch them self-destruct, isn't it?
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Nate
>>     
>
> I'm wondering how many people will flock to Vista.  It sounds like
> anything over 1 to 1 1/2 years might not be able to run Vista.  The
> hardware specs seem pretty high.  But maybe they don't care about anything
> already running.
Yeah, the biggest problem (at least from the machines that I see that I
have) is that they've more than doubled the memory requirements from
XP.  Usually each next version of Windows just doubles the requirements,
but XP was 256 MB of RAM and now Vista is 1 GB of RAM.  I guess they did
this for the hardware manufacturers.

For me, upgrading my older systems to 1 GB of RAM is just barely
possible and really more expensive than it's worth.

Angelo

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