Microsoft has published a set of guidelines on which decisions to make now, so that your computer will be ready to run Windows Vista. They claim that any mid-range AMD or Intel processor will do, and even low-end ones will pack enough power to run Vista. 512 MBRAM is advised, but for more advanced users, 1GB is recommended. As for graphics card: "If you are building or buying PC today, you probably want to avoid the low end of the current GPU range and make sure you get a GPU that supports DirectX 9 and has at least 64 MB of graphics memory." My take: I can confirm that the Windows Vista December CTP, with all the effects turned on, runs more than fine on my aging AMD Athlon XP 1600+, 512MB SD-RAM, Ati Radeon 9000 128MB DDR-RAM (DirectX 8 compatible card, so not a DX9 card). Just so you know.
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Member since:2005-07-06
No, I don't mean that. I may be a happy Mac user, but I'm no Mac zealot fag. Apple innovates to some extent, Microsoft innovates to some extent, IBM innovates, Sun innovates, Linux innovates somewhat ... but you know what? They all copy each other a lot more.
Deal with it. It's how the industry works.
Member since:Copying each other isn't innovation, its what's slowing things down in terms of bringing in something completely new to the table. This is what everyone is looking for, something new.
And the industry should change with someone leading the way. Simply saying this is how things work and to "deal with it", isn't right.
Its like saying, this is how we ass-rape customers for their money with our products, and expecting no one to react. People will start to react by seeking alternative solutions, no matter what they be.
Bringing something new and different is innovation.
What MS is doing so far is showing everyone that their primary competitor for 2006 is Apple. Any real innovation there? Hardly.
Their actions clearly define it, by emulating their looks and droping application support on a competiting product. The feel of Vista's GUI is reminiscent of OSX, the canned support for IE on Mac, etc.
To "deal with it" and accept "copying ideas" is merely to act like sheep. To do something bold that no one has done is innovation.
To really stand out of the crowd, and bring something new to the user is what excites people about technology. (Not some pointless new widget, but something that has practical use to the average person).
Member since:2005-06-29
You know, a favorite high school teacher of mine had a term he used for viewpoints like this: Everybody does this and that to some extent, they're not all that different, it's somewhere in the middle (blah blah blah).
He called them wet-noodle views. And he'd then refer to the person saying them as a wet noodle.
Of course, he was joking. But I somehow doubt that people with strongly pro-Apple views are all gay (or cigarettes for that matter).
Calm down; this is how discussion boards work.
Some people don't agree with your moderate world view. And that's their perogative. You don't get to call them fags for disagreeing with you.
Normally I'd just vote you down. But since this thread is pretty much destined for nowhere from the start, I decided to go ahead and be nice.
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Windows and OS X are both raising the bar considerably for the next releases. The fight between desktop OSes is getting much more fierce.
Don't you mean one is actually innovating (Apple), and the other is just plain copying ideas (Microsoft)?