Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 7th Apr 2006 14:20 UTC
Microsoft's Windows Vista will run on just about any PC available today, but it will only show its true colors on about half of them, according to a new report from Gartner. While Microsoft is currently suggesting a minimum of 512MB, the new OS will require at least 1GB of dual-channel memory to provide its full capabilities, Gartner said in the report. However, all recent discrete solutions from major graphics makers such as ATI and Nvidia, for both desktops and notebooks, are expected to be able to support Aero, Gartner said in the report. My take: After toying with Vista myself, it becomes quite clear what you need to run Aero glass: 512 MB of fast RAM, and a DirectX9 compatible videocard with 128MB RAM. I also found that even non-DirectX9 videocards can run Aero Glass comfortably.
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2005-07-06
Maybe it's swapping out the entire OS, several times over.
With all the bells and whistles off, I am sure Vista will perform well on low and mid-range machines. I guess some people really like glitz... I turn off the fancy Dock stuff in OS X, why waste cycles? Besides, I like to pin the dock to the bottom left and the expanding icons make it hard to target the left most apps sometimes.
I am looking forward to trying it when it is released... I was pleasantly surprised by XP but not then it was basically 2000+. With the supposed large amounts of rewritten code, I expect Vista to be a slightly different beast.
On the other hand, as the article says, GPUs just keep advancing and providing/supporting methods for the OS to offload work onto them.
I guess Operating Systems will become more and more broken out into server applications that pass messages back and forth, specializing in specific forms of I/O and each server will have its own memory, CPU, and bus controller/interface...