I have 2.2 GHZ Centrino Duo laptop with 2GB of RAM and Vista works as fast as my previous XP Machine which was a 1.8GHX Centrino Duo and 2GB RAM.
So your Pentium D 3 Ghz should be fine and dandy with or without the 4gb obviously 4gb would be better but then that goes for xp too. Graeme On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 8:59 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "John Hornbuckle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/12/2008 > 03:53:29 PM: > > > Well, it's moot that a crappy system being sold by a vendor is good > > enough to run XP. It's also good enough to run Windows for > > Workgroups and DOS—but that's not the point. > > > > > Yes, Vista has higher hardware requirements. Just like XP has higher > > requirements than Win9x had, and just like Win9x had higher > > requirements than Win3x had. Every OS that comes out is likely to > > have higher requirements than the OS before it. > > > > But honestly, Vista's hardware requirements aren't crazy high. As I > > mentioned before, I'm running it at home on a Pentium D processor— > > which is a very modest CPU by today's standards. Vista works just > > fine with it. The biggest issue with the hardware vendors, as seen > > in the ZDNet piece, is the crapware installed at the factory. The > > author of the article got the Sony laptop working perfectly with > > Vista without changing the hardware at all. > > Really ... I have a Pentium D, 3GHz, 2M RAM. You think if I bumped the RAM > to 4G that Vista would be OK with it? I mostly use this PC for photoediting > (Photoshop CS3), and video editing (which in my case is converting PAL to > NTSC, or making a DVD out of AVI files, using Nero 7). > > Feel free to reply offlist .... > > > > > > > > > John Hornbuckle > > MIS Department > > Taylor County School District > > 318 North Clark Street > > Perry, FL 32347 > > > > www.taylor.k12.fl.us > > > > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 3:35 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: Why XP is doomed > > > > > > Ken Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/11/2008 03:58:17 AM: > > > > > If a vendor sells an underpowered machine, then perhaps the vendor > > > should take some blame. > > > > I believe the point is that the hardware is not underpowered for Xp, > > but is underpowered for Vista. Especially if the vendor isn't (or > > can't ... ) offer XP on that hardware. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Carbon credits are a bit like beating someone up on this side of the world and sponsoring one of those poor starving kids on the other side of the world to make up for the fact that you're a complete shit at home. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
