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Tejstar
19-05-2006, 1:22 PM
Don't know whether this is old news, but Microsoft have revealed their Vista checklist. Click here (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/capable.mspx).
A Windows Vista Capable PC includes at least:
A modern processor (at least 800MHz1).
512 MB of system memory.
A graphics processor that is DirectX 9 capable.
A Windows Vista Premium Ready PC includes at least:
1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
1 GB of system memory.
A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero2.
128 MB of graphics memory.
40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
DVD-ROM Drive3.
Audio output capability.
Internet access capability.
Wow, pretty ambitious. My 3.2Ghz P4 struggles at times...they have a lot of optimizing to do then ;)
Tejstar
19-05-2006, 1:32 PM
MS have also released their Upgrade Advisor Beta:
The Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor is a small beta application that you can run on your current Windows XP-based computer to find out if it's ready for an upgrade to Windows Vista.
Click here (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx).
Singh400
19-05-2006, 1:42 PM
@danluton: Hardly ambitious, I would have expected more. I see Microsoft are covering their backsides by releasing Vista on CDs aswell as DVDs.
Uridium
19-05-2006, 1:55 PM
And the minimum spec for XP Pro is a P300/128Mb and would you run it with that!
its the bare minimum spec to load windows, they dont say its useable with those specs :P
1GB of memory and a 3GHz cpu will be fine untill you start opening a shed loadsd of apps, and then its all down to how well it manages memory :)
Singh400
19-05-2006, 11:27 PM
And the minimum spec for XP Pro is a P300/128Mb and would you run it with that!I've run XP on 256RAM and 950mz lol.
Tejstar
20-05-2006, 11:01 AM
Damn , I wanted to see whether my comp is ok and when I went to download the upgrade advisor, I got this:
The Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor beta is currently unavailable, please check back soon. We apologize for the inconvenience.
:(
Stiggy
20-05-2006, 12:42 PM
Damn , I wanted to see whether my comp is ok and when I went to download the upgrade advisor, I got this:
The Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor beta is currently unavailable, please check back soon. We apologize for the inconvenience.
:(
Yeah, I did get hold it of, but now it won't download the driver database to check your system!
It doesn't really tell you much. the biggest shock for me was it told me I needed 15GB of free space on my C: (system) drive! And you thought that XP took a lot of space!
Singh400
20-05-2006, 1:55 PM
Yeah, I did get hold it of, but now it won't download the driver database to check your system!
It doesn't really tell you much. the biggest shock for me was it told me I needed 15GB of free space on my C: (system) drive! And you thought that XP took a lot of space!I've already covered this in another section of the forum...
About the 15GB free hard drive, this is only recommend because of the amount of temp. files that it uses when installing.
I've just installed Build 5381.1 a couple of hours ago. VERY quick install. After installing I checked how much hard drive space it has used, it was just over 6GBs.