Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 16th Mar 2006 22:51 UTC
"The latest Community Technology Preview version of Windows Vista contains a new feature aimed at helping the average Joe and his friendly Best Buy shopping assistant figure out what kind of horsepower is needed to run the new OS. The rating consists of an aggregate total rating on a scale from 1 to 5 and a number of sub-ratings on a scale yet to be specified, broken out by hardware categories like processor, memory, video card, and hard drive."
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2005-07-06
Come on, minimum for XP is 3.0 GHz with 32 MB video card ? Which planet are you living in ? XP in my house runs very well on a 1.7 GHz with 512 MB RAM. Heck, even my office system is only 2.4 GHz 512 MB RAM. I mean come on. you can do better then that.
Please, read into the post before you make an ass of yourself.
He is talking about unbalanced systems where the vendor places an extreme bias towards the CPU whilst deliberately deglecting the graphics card or hard disk.
That is what cheap vendors do, they pump up the processor to insane specifications, then go cheap on everything else; net result? shit house performance.
For me, personally, drop the demand for $299 computers, and face reality; save a little more, and actually spend the little extra so that your computer will last the full 3-4 years rather than the thing turning into an unreliable POS within a space of 12 months.
You get what you pay for - and nother can be more of a truism than that phrase in the IT world; want crap, you pay less; want quality, you pay more.
As for those with $299 PC's, they either fall into two groups, either they wanted a cheap PC to throw away every couple of years, or they're so poverty ridden that they would have been able to afford to upgrade to a legal version of Vista anyway.