The beauty of Linux is choice my friend. Some lightweight distributions i. Linux distributions are becoming more and more user friendly and hardware friendly with every release. While Microsoft have priced themselves out of this market due to their obsession with anti-piracy and shear greed, Linux and BSD are alive and well and are slowly but surely knocking down every hurdle to their eventual widespread adoption. Please give Linux another look. Good luck. If you live in the 3rd world, you will still be able to use vista, just not quite yet.
There are others that can make do with less but you will have to use a lightweight GUI as stated by my fellow posters above. Linux is not perfect but if you make wise purchases in terms of hardware you will not have a problem…SLAX and Ubuntu are known to have good hardware support. Especially SLAX for older hardware. I went out and bought a laptop christmas present for my wife because her old toshiba has a unknown fault that is stopping proper HD booting data is still there, but will not reboot without going back to original HD image.
I knew that 1 gig of ram was good, but that was it. So, I left with it! They have lots of OLD stock which they need to clear off the shelves so that it can be replaced by more expensive stuff that all carry the Vista Ready sticker. These are uaually single core centrinos, integrated graphics and Mb RAM. Yes they will run Vista but not Aero. My Fiancee wanter a new laptop for Christmas.
I persuaded her that thiswas a bad idea at the moment. If your going to play games on Vista dont even think about it with Mb of ram. This happens every time Microsoft comes out with a new OS, they make everyone upgrade their hardware to use it.
Partly, I put the blame for a lot of this confusion at Microsoft's doorstep and how the Aero user interface is marketed. The fact that there are different requirements for the Windows Aero interface Now, there is one fly in the ointment: Output Protection Management. Let's start at the bottom line. Nothing scary there apart from the MHz bit - seems so disco, even my old laptop was faster than that! The only tripping point might be the graphics requirements.
My advice here would be to make sure that you don't buy something that's too close to the bottom of any of these lists if you want good performance, and to buy mid-range gear if you want good performance without having to take out a second mortgage. This is a PC that can run Windows Vista but cannot make use of additional features that Microsoft calls "premium experiences".
These "premium experiences" include:. These PCs have higher system requirements:. Now even those requirements aren't really worth screaming about really. If you're the kind of person who will want to upgrade their PC to Windows Vista then you're unlikely to have lower system requirements.
New tools bring better clarity to the information on the computer, allowing users to see what their files contain without opening them, find applications and files instantly, navigate efficiently among open windows, and use wizards and dialog boxes with added confidence. Figure 1. As noted previously, each level of user experience builds on the features of the previous version and is dependent on the Windows Vista version and the computer's hardware.
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Would it have been better received had Microsoft originally presented Vista as requiring a powerful hardware platform to run efficiently? Do other manufacturers understate their system requirements? Back in the day whenever that was! I came to learn that the minimum requirements were usually adequate; but if I always opted for the recommended system requirements, I'd not only have plenty of computing power but I'd also give ourselves some room to grow.
Is it just me, or does it seem that some software manufacturers are grossly understating their system requirements? One of the worst cases I've seen is Microsoft Vista's recommended requirements. Compared to my preferred system for running Vista , a computer with Microsoft's recommended requirements would literally crawl -- perhaps even come to a drastic halt with a taxing application. I have to wonder if Microsoft knew this? I suspect they did, but they weighed the pros and cons of desired sales quotas versus the inevitable negative customer feedback.
But I can't imagine a company actually inviting bad publicity, so it's hard for me to believe they opted to deal with the negative feedback. I also can't believe they didn't know they were understating the requirements.
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