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Posted by Joerg on June 29, 2008, 11:30 am
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David Brown wrote:
> Uniden wrote:
>> scott@validatedQWERTYsoftware.XYZZY.com says...
>>> Business Week reported the same about General Motors a month or two
>>> ago. GM refused to upgrade partly because too many of their machines
>>> wouldn't support Vista. They also are waiting for Win7.
>>
>> "waiting for Win7" Will Win7 run on the machines that are currently
>> underpowered for Vista?
>> I think not. I'd speculate that since Vista requires a machine with 5
>> times the guts of an "XP-class machine" to run, Win7 would then need a
>> machine with 5 times the guts of a "Vista-class machine".
>>
>> (Meanwhile my Ubuntu box runs really well on a Win2000-class machine.)
>
> It seems unlikely that Win7 will need significantly more than Vista does
> - I don't even MS will try to use physics engines or ray-tracing on the
> desktop. And Vista is happy with pretty much any modern processor
> (except for the extreme portable ones) and 1 GB of ram - almost any new
> PC should fast enough, at least without Aero. The trouble with Vista's
> hardware requirements is that they are too demanding for a cheap machine
> a few years old - you can't sensibly "upgrade" an average XP machine to
> Vista. But in a couple of years time, when Win7 turns up, common
> business replace strategies will have replaced these older PC's with
> systems that are fine for Vista (to the extent that Vista could ever be
> called "fine" - but we are just looking at the hardware here) and should
> be fine for Win7.
>
> Of course, it remains to be seen whether MS will make the same kind of
> absurd mistakes with Win7 as with Vista regarding incompatibility with
> hardware, software, drivers, and users. Vista is a great boost for the
> Mac and desktop *nix, but the big buyers are conservative enough to say
> "we'll skip Vista, and wait for Win7". If Win7 is not worth waiting
> for, they won't be so forgiving a second time.
Businesses also look at this: "What does a new OS have that we
absolutely must have, too?" Unavailability of drivers won't be a
challenge for a long time. If a vendor won't issue an XP driver you just
move on to the next vendor who does.
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