Windows Vista Beta 2 - Your Views

knight0334 · Posted: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 23:08:18 Post Subject:

From my observations... you damn near gotta have SMP and 2+ gigs of RAM to have the same performance you were used to with XP Pro.

The machines I tested it on felt like I was walking in water. Too much crap running with it.

On my XP machines, I have them trimmed down to 80-100MB of RAM used with no appz running other then background driver support and AVG Free.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 23:37:42 Post Subject:

Yeah - their published minimum specs may 'work' but you will be screaming at your screen the whol time!!!

Here is the published data on requirements:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/capable.mspx

I wouldn't think the base 800 MHz CPU or the recommended 1GHz CPU would be too much fun at all, and would do as knight said and throw at least 2GB of memory at it.

I have seen all their fancy crap they have loaded in, and I really don't know who needs/wants it. Give me speed and simplicity!

Big B · Rated NC-17 Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 194

Ok, so it sounds like i will being staying with xp for awhile.

Anyway may i ask what does this mean?

"A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero"

What is windows aero?

I agree big bruin, my uncle pc is only a 1.9 ghz or so and its not that fast running xp he only has 512 of ram and the pc does not run good with xp

so i do agree i dont see how they claim that a 1.0Ghz can run vista

**Modulok** · Posted: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:19:13 Post Subject:

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:26:23 Post Subject:

monkeysauce · Rated PG Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 13

Looks cool, but where are we supposed to get the registration code? I'd prefer to get more than 14 days to test it. With a little time I might actually load some programs
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BeerCheeze · Posted: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:33:53 Post Subject:

I haven't tested it yet. Maybe one of these days I'll have time to download and test it out. All the AMD x64 CPU's should run better on it than on XP 32 (or 64).

acruxksa · Posted: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:45:30 Post Subject:

I'm using it on my laptop right now and it's pretty smooth. I like it, not sure if I like it enough to pay what they want for it, but it does seem like a huge improvement on XP. I still think Linux w/ Compiz/XGL has more potential, but Vista has come a long way since the last time I tried it (over a year ago)

Vista Beta 2 seemed to find everything on my Dell e1505 with out any trouble. I did have to run automatic update so it could update the drivers for my SDcard slot, but other than that everything is running pretty well.

thePMG · Rated XXX Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 393 Location: Germany

It wouldn't load on my Macbook Pro. Sad

mrweasel · Posted: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 09:14:11 Post Subject:

sure it will

Install Parallels, install XP, run upgrade for Vista. Works on my MacBook Grin