Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Dec 2006 20:57 UTC
A white paper published this morning by hardware analysis firm iSuppli, based on its studies of Microsoft Windows Vista running on multiple grades of computer hardware, has concluded that the software publisher's stated minimum requirements for the system - which include an 800 MHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, and a 35 GB hard drive - may not be nearly enough. "Despite Microsoft's claims that Vista can run on such trailing-edge systems," writes Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst for compute platforms research, "iSuppli believes the reality is quite different."
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2005-07-23
Good on them for saying so. According to Microsoft, you can run XP on a 233MHz machine with 64MB RAM - but 300MHz/128MB is recommended. Yeah, that'd work really well...
To be fair, they're hardly the only ones - a lot of game manufacturers have pulled similar tricks in the past. You get used to taking the recommended and adding a chunk, but I'm sure lots of people will get caught by this.