Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Dec 2005 13:18 UTC
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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WTF are you all complaining about? You will be able to turn off the effects and use the "Windows Classic" theme(IMO the best one to date, but in competition with Luna and the awful brown, green and black Vista Theme that's not saying much). The requirements seem pretty decent to me. If your box can run XP okay it will probably run Vista also. 512 mb RAM has been the standard for quite som time(Windows XP pretty much requires 512 mb, at least in my experience).
CPU-power usually isn't that important in desktop apps.
A X300/6200 can be had really cheap, and if you're on AGP, just get a 9200 or something, they're also real cheap. Hell, even Intel's 945 works according to MS!
40$(or whatever a cheap VGA-card costs in the US) is not a high price to pay to be able to use a spanking new OS with all eye-candy effects turned on. To get a nice experience out of OSX most people seem to want at least 32 mb VRAM.
I personally use Linux(altough I'm almost shamful to say so after the behaviour of some Linux-supporters in the comments to this article) but to me Vistas technical qualities seem top-notch(after all, MS has some great software engineers on their payroll). The thing I do not like is the Visual presentation, and the general direction of DRM and Trusted Computing that is being pushed with Vista.
People should be discussing those issues instead of this nonsense