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March 02, 2006
Buying a new computer this year?
I was browsing some stories at eWeek and saw a column by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols titled Why Windows Vista will suck.
"The truth is that very, very few people are going to be upgrading their existing systems to Vista. To make it work well, you're really going to need a new computer. If you didn't buy your PC in 2006, I wouldn't even try to run Vista on it."
He says he has 20 computers in his office and there is only one out of the 2o that will run Vista.
He says it is a Gateway 835GM which has an Intel Pentium D 2.8GHz dual-core processor, an Intel 945G chipset, 1GB DDR2 (double data rate) DRAM, a 250GB SATA hard drive, and built-in Intel GMA (graphics media accelerator) 950 graphics.
I think from reading the article that he is a bit bias towards Microsoft systems but the point I think he is making is you're going to need a powerful computer to run it and unless you just bought a computer this year, there is a good chance you will be out of luck.
I say, "Let's be optimistic!" It means a new computer for everyone, in the not so distant future.
Posted by Steve MacLellan at March 2, 2006 03:47 PM
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That is the thing. It would be nice to have new computers but then again if you think of the hardware you need to run Vista - well, you could think again. Might try a Mac or another machine with SUSE, Ubuntu or Fedora running on it. I heard that having 512Mb of RAM is a minimum requirement for it and not everyone could afford that much RAM on their machines because of cost considerations. And yes, the OS itself too would be a bit expensive :(
Posted by: Clair Ching at March 3, 2006 02:16 AM
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