$5000+ system? Heck, I have a $899 HP laptop on which Vista really flies! It has the Core 2 Duo T5200 processor with 1 GB RAM.
Gary VanderMolen ----- Original Message ----- > No, i think the reason is much more sinister than that, Thane. MS just > wants to control the "mind space" of people for another five years. They > can't do that with just a simple update to XP. They need something that > looks and feels different, so that people can have something to spend > time and energy tweaking and talking about (loving and/or hating). All > of the mags and websites will starting writing about it, Vista will sell > more hardware (hell, systems are now back up to $5000+ after being dirt > cheap for sometime), and the industry will move. Motion is more > important than the direction, in terms of staying alive. This is what > the entire industry wants from MS as its leader. Hence, MS is > delivering. We can either follow or jump ship. :)
