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Don't Sweat Vista Upgrades Unless You Have an Eye-Candy Sweet Tooth | |
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| Time: 17:00 EST/22:00 GMT | News Source: eWeek | Posted By: Andre Da Costa | ||
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Our own John Spooner's got the scoop on Vista's hardware requirement estimates. In short, the Ultimate Vista Experience will require a 1GHz processor, 1GB ram, and a Gaming-grade video card for which there's LDDM driver available. I've been running the Vista CTP builds as they've come out, and I can confirm that these 3 Gs should get you all that Vista has to offer. The thing is, though, that the most hardware-stressing part of the forthcoming Ultimate Vista Experience is a little bit of graphical eye candy that frankly isn't worth the upgrade. | ||
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| #1 By 46122 (68.237.253.111) at 5/17/2006 7:43:25 PM |
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I have been running each new build on an old laptop 3 years old. No 1G ram, 512 actually. 2.2 GHz Chip P4 Chip, no Video Ram.
It actually runs very well, and offers alot compare to XP. |
| #2 By 31608 (201.242.154.248) at 5/17/2006 8:12:09 PM |
| Exactly #1, I think the eye candy of Vista is just a little part of the changes, If you only want Vista for the eye candy its really doesn't worth it |
| #3 By 61 (71.251.125.10) at 5/17/2006 9:07:54 PM |
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I wonder how performance of the system is w/o the eye candy.
What I mean is, my nVidia drivers are not tuned at all to run the non-accelerated desktop. So it's all software rendered. Not that I care all that much. |
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