will vista be able run on my dell dimension 2400? heres my pc specs: Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.66GHz 256MB RAM Intel 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller
for sure you are going to want to upgrade to at least 512MB of ram. here is something i found.(no author) System breakdown Graphics: Vista has changed from using the CPU to display bitmaps on the screen to using the GPU to render vectors. This means the entire display model in Vista has changed. To render the screen in the GPU requires an awful lot of memory to do optimally - 256MB is a happy medium, but you'll actually see benefit from more. Microsoft believes that you're going to see the amount of video memory being shipped on cards hurtle up when Vista ships. CPU: Threading is the main target for Vista. Currently, very little of Windows XP is threaded - the target is to make Vista perform far better on dual-core and multi-core processors. RAM: 2GB is the ideal configuration for 64-bit Vista, we're told. Vista 32-bit will work ideally at 1GB, and minimum 512. However, since 64-bit is handling data chunks that are double the size, you'll need double the memory, hence the 2GB. Nigel mentions DDR3 - which is a little odd, since the roadmap for DDR3, on Intel gear at least, doesn't really kick in until 2007. HDD: SATA is definitely the way forward for Vista, due, Microsoft tells us, to Native Command Queueing. NCQ allows for out of order completions - that is, if Vista needs tasks 1,2,3,4 and 5 done, it can do them in the order 2,5,3,4,1 if that's a more efficient route for the hard drive head to take over the disk. This leads to far faster completion times. NCQ is supported on SATA2 drives, so expect them to start becoming the standard sooner rather than later. Microsoft thinks that these features will provide SCSI-level performance. Bus: AGP is 'not optimal' for Vista. Because of the fact that graphics cards may have to utilise main system memory for some rendering tasks, a fast, bi-direction bus is needed - that's PCI express. Display: Prepare to feel the red mist of rage - no current TFT monitor out there is going to support high definition playback in Vista. You may already have heard rumblings about this, but here it is. To play HD-DVD or Blu-Ray content you need a HDCP compatible monitor. Why? Because these formats use HDCP to encrypt a video signal as it travels along a digital connection to an output device, to prevent people copying it. If you have just standard DVI or even an analogue output, you're going to see HD scaled down to a far-less-than-HD resolution for viewing - which sucks. This isn't really Microsoft's fault - HDCP is something that content makers, in their eternal wisdom, have decided is necessary to stop us all watching pirated movies. Yay.
thanks for all the info! im not being rude or anything but can you just tell me if it will run on my pc? and if it wont what will i need to make it work?
Specs for vista are seriously on the high end.. Recommended. P4 3GHz 1024MB ram 256MB graphics They can stick that.. I for one am not going to bother with it. Bloatware at it's finest.. lol
Thinking along with youre idea, then would the minimun for 64-bit be 1GB? And will the final release of Vista need even better Specs?
@ IM1 It depends what you use your computer for and how much experience you have. Not for the inexperienced user, there is a steep learning curve when changing over to Linux from windows. Check out the Linux forums. As for vista.. I have grave concerns over the amount of spyware it will contain, some are calling it the "deny yourself your constitutional rights" operating system.. My worries are along these lines http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7646.cfm
