Comments on: Deskfans, Optical Illusions, Windows Vista, WebOS’s, and Windows Vista

By: malt

malt — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:32:36 +0000

That music sounds like tennis

By: Chippie

Chippie — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:59:53 +0000

The source of the information was an RM technical seminar so the information was reliable, but seeing as the seminar was exclusively for schools I guess they assumed a lower than average machine spec and probably fairly old PCs.

The only problems I’ve found with it so far is that it doesn’t always register a click when clicking on a vb style button (I am currently on my xp installation as I couldn’t click “Submit Comment” on the vista one)
Also, when running the tool to see if my machine was ‘vista ready’ it said I not only need a new graphics card - which is true, but also that I have a 0.00 Hz processor.

By: The Mysterious X

The Mysterious X — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:34:59 +0000

A lot has been said about the vista requirements; most of it untrue.

For the “full” graphics engine, most computers up to 2 years old will run it.
After that, Vista will still run very well, just without all the flashy 3D effects (it falls back to an XP-like interface). I think most computers up to 5 years old should easily run vista in classic mode.
After all, minimum requirements are an 800 MHz processor and 512 of system RAM (the 7 year old computer in my cupboard has that :))

Even on full mode, it only requires a 1 GHz processor and a gig of RAM, and a 128 MB graphics card.

By: Chippie

Chippie — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 23:37:43 +0000

Downloading vista right now, I think i’ll have to wait till tomorrow to try it out (have you tried pressing Shift + Alt + Tab to get the ring binder type effect?)
By the sound of things a lot of current on board graphics cards won’t be able to cope with the stuff vista will chuck at them.