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evermore |
Awful. So in order to be marked as Premium Ready, the system has to have the most expensive models of hard drives installed, which will barely have had any time on the market and no time to see how they really do in the real world, even though this feature has nothing to do with the general "experience" of Vista, it's just basically a faster hard drive. Hard drives are slower in laptops in general, insisting on having hybrid drives brings MS into the realm of determining performance standards that have nothing to do with the OS's capabilities.
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Which James |
According to Ars Technica, this story is not entirely true:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/6/14/4328 It's not required. |
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maxxcool |
and a 40 GB hard drive with 15 GB of free space
Are you effing kidding me ? 15 gigs for a OS ?? wow.... lame |
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Decelerate |
I can just picture the display shelves:
"Piece of crap but Vista capable (technically)!" "Vista Ready if you set your settings to mid at best!" "90% Vista Premium Ready (Hybrid drive upgradable, sold separately)!" "Vista Premium ready which is better than Vista Ready!" "Vista Premium ready and a bag of chips!" This is what happens when you have so many versions of the same damn operating system. Joe is going to have a field trip. No wonder we need more and more tech support. |
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FireGryphon |
Given the memory requirements that XP has, we're going to need at least four times the current amount of flash memory. Of course, I'm not holding my breath for Vista to come out any time soon.
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derFunkenstein |
Am I the only one who likes these hardware suggestions for Vista? It's like MS is trying to force third-rate OEM's from filling cheap PC's with crappy components. I think this is their attempt to say that Windows isn't slow/unstable/bloated, it's just been running on crappy hardware. Whether or not that's true is to be determined.
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buhusky |
What about my recently purchased "Vista ready" PC? It doesn't have flash storage . . . .
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My Johnson |
Doesn't flash memory wear out?
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ca197 |
The reasoning for this is that it reduces the need to spin up the HDD. Surely 256mb isn't really enough. I mean on average you have got to have at least 1gb of page file and the amount that windows pages the 256mb would be filled in no time.
Also wouldn't this be a good idea on the desktop as well? I mean my electric bill is bad enough and by vista it may cost you 400w just to run up to desktop (Dam those graphics cards). |