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Originally Posted by gamefreak94
Microsoft does bluff about its products though, they claim that Vista can run on an 800 MHz CPU and a 32 MB video memory (now that is just pure bs!).
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Minumum requirements for Vista Home Basic according to MS:
1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
512 MB of system memory
20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
Support for DirectX 9 graphics and 32 MB of graphics memory
Minimum Requirements for all other versions according to MS:
1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 GB of system memory
40 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
Support for DirectX 9 graphics with:
WDDM Driver
128 MB of graphics memory (minimum)
Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware
Completely realistic requirements. 32mb video is absolutely fine for non-gaming usage.
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On the other hand, XP SP2 is a really effecient OS. My third PC (which I rarely ue for obvious reasons) is a Dell Optiplex GX1, a P3 and not just any, the very first model with 550 MHz CPU and a 128 MB RAM and no built-in or external video memory. Other than taking a minute or so longer at start-up and MS Office being pretty sluggish, there isn't any instability or crashes (though I totally agree that this "isn't normal, its paging the already old HDD to death") But this is just to show that all Microsoft OS start off with a lot of criticism and most bugs are corrected in SP2 and until then, it isn't advisable to have it if you are even half-satisfied with XP.
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I wouldn't say XP is more efficient as much as it requires less resources. But we know this. 98 required even less resources. 95 even less. 3.1 less still. We could keep going back but it's not fair to compare a 6 year old OS to a 1 year old one and tout that it takes less resources. Vista takes more. It gives more back. And we can spare the ram it requires.
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Furthermore, rumor's gone around that Microsoft is abandoning Vista
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LOL. Vista's not going anywhere. It'll be MS's flagship OS until Windows 7 comes out.
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