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Windows Vista Is 50% Half Full or Half Empty ?
–by Andrew McCaskey
A link from Mark Wilson in the UK on his weblog (We)blog .. with some needed clarification on the article that I read a few days ago on Vista.
Whilst driving to work this morning, I heard a piece on Slashdot Review about how 50% of PCs will be prevented from running Windows Vista, citing problems with graphics capabilities and the Aero interface. Wrong. The operating system will run – just it will be without some of the new graphical features. I’m running the December CTP (build 5270) on a 2 year old 1.5GHz Pentium 4 Mobile notebook PC with 256MB of RAM. Granted, it’s not what you might call fast (a bit more RAM would fix that), but it runs. Whilst I may not have the Aero “glass” eye-candy, Vista is there, along with all its other features. If, however, I want high-end graphics, then I’ll have to upgrade my machine.
Kind of sets me to thinking about why I have several machines in the 700 Mhz Duron category that I just don’t get rid of – one on XP, the other on Ubuntu Linux. The answer is they work just well enough for what I use them for – web browsing, word processing, and the occasional editing of log files. Not being a gamer, I’m coming to realize that I’m stuck about five years in the past, as much by how and what I use the computer for than anything else.
Mark continues with a good list of items pertaing to Vista:
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I came across Google SMS again today- a way to pull all sorts of useful stuff from Google with the fast SMS from your cellphone.
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