Microsoft reveals Vista checklist

Trogan

Microsoft has revealed how powerful computers must be to run Vista - the new version of its Windows operating system.

Microsoft has released "minimum" and "recommended" specifications for Vista.

VISTA HARDWARE CHECKLIST
Minimum Recommended
Processor 800MHz 1GHz 32 or 64 bit
System Memory 512MB 1GB
Graphics card DirectX 9 capable Runs Windows Aero
Graphics Memory - - 128MB
Free space on 15GB 15GB
Hard Drive

The minimum means that the operating system will run but some new features will be disabled. Recommended means that this is what is needed to get the most basic configuration of the whole package working.

Microsoft has said that Vista will go on widespread release in January 2007.

Vista, formerly known as Longhorn, is Microsoft's long awaited update to the Windows family of operating systems and makes some big changes to the way that the software works.

Source: BBC

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For comparison, here's Microsofts minimum / recommended specs for XP:

Minimum:

233MHz Processor
64MB RAM
1.5GB Hard drive
SVGA card

Recommended

300MHz Processor
128MB RAM
1.5GB Hard disk
SVGA card

Now, you can guess how well XP actually runs on those minimum specs so I'm assuming the same is true of the Vista specs.

shwaip

you can also guess how well it runs on the recommended specs.

XP runs like a frozen slug on a rig with less than 256 MB of ram.

airbornflght

well, i guess my 2800 a64 is about done then. although, I have no intent of going with vista after finding out all the dandy "Privacy Protection" and all that built into it. I'd think that I should have to trust me computer and not the other way around, after all, I did pay for the thing.