Microsoft provides more specific system requirements for Vista | TG Daily
In an email sent to vendors at the CES 2006, Microsoft for the first time outlined some system requirements for its upcoming operating system. These guidelines are a first indication of how much horsepower Windows Vista will require to be able to deliver on Microsoft's promises.
The email states that Vista asks for a system with a 3.0 GHz Intel or equivalent AMD processor and 1 GB of memory. We believe that especially ATI officials may have liked the recommendation to firms who are demonstrating Vista at their booths to use a "high end ATI GPU," namely a Radeon 9800, x600, x700, x800 or x850 device. According to Microsoft, ATI is preferred to Nvidia at this time due to superior driver support."
Other requirements included a SATA or 7200 rpm EIDE hard drive. For Vista on notebooks, Microsoft recommended the Acer Ferrari 3400 (AMD Mobile Athlon 64 3000+, 512MB, 15" SXGA+ 1400x1050 Radeon 9700 128MB), the Acer Ferrari 4000, the HP Pavillion zd8230 (Pentium 4 650 3.4GHz, 1GB, 17" WXGA+ 1400x900 Radeon x600 128MB), the IBM Thinkpad T43 (Pentium M 735 1.7GHz 400FSB, 256MB, 14.1" XGA Radeon 9600 64MB) and the Toshiba Tecra M4 (Tablet Pentium M 740 1.73GHz 533FSB, 256MB, 14.1" SXGA+, nVidia 6200 64MB)
The email stated that "PCs that meet or exceed these specifications will provide the most responsive Windows Vista operating system demo experience."
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
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