Windows Vista Hardware Tax

[dangel]

See some new UI-coolness...

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=114694

[hachi-roku]

/me really needs to upgrade

1Ghz Athlon, 256mb ram... dear god!

As for Vista, I can't really comment too much on it as I haven't seen it... but even when I did have my P4 monster before this, I still only ran Win2k.

Oh and Linux is cool, I run Debian on my server, but the Desktops are so utterly bloated.. I'm sure they'll make Vista look positively Kate Moss.

[TheAnimus]

Well yesterday I was playing HL2 with full details at 1600 x 1200 on my old p4 2.4C1 with 512Mb ram 2-3-3-6 and a geforce4 ti on Suse 9.3 and the frame rate was very playable. As I'm writing this in firefox 1.5 I'm also playing World Of Warcraft on the same box. Theres never a need for windows.... except when you have a difficult and confused manager.

Or want some domain/security features which you can't do with a linux kernel.

Or want performance, lets be honest you talk about playable HL2, i hate to say i think thats complete flaigrent rubbishrubbishrubbishrubbishrubbish, in my experiance of been the hardware monkey for a relitivly small LAN, I've NEVER seen a PC of that spec, able to run HL2 at that res, with anything like nice graphics/framerate been playable. No. Whilst i might be master of the POST adaptor + people who can't transport a comptuer without a hard drive falling out. I'm a hardware perv, and do like to see whats inside, and how well its doing.