"Graeme Carstairs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/12/2008 04:28:33 PM:
> 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. Good to know, thanks! > > 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> ~
