Vista Requirements Released

On 19 Jul 2006, at 16:00 , maclistsadditional.com wrote:
> Now that there are betas of Vista in fairly wide circulation, has
> anyone tried it on a MacBook using either Boot Camp

Couldn't get it to work.

> or Parallels?

Worked fine.

> I'm wondering if a 1GB MacBook would have enough "oomph" to run
> applications in Vista at a decent speed.

You have to turn down that annoying and ugly vista effects to get
decent performance. Course, I have to do that on my PC as well. On
both machines it did not seem significantly slower than XP.
Significantly more annoying, yes. Slower, no.



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At 3:02 PM -0700 7/20/06, Google Kreme wrote:
>On 19 Jul 2006, at 16:00 , maclistsadditional.com wrote:
>[...]
>
>>I'm wondering if a 1GB MacBook would have enough "oomph" to run
>>applications in Vista at a decent speed.
>
>You have to turn down that annoying and ugly vista effects to get
>decent performance. Course, I have to do that on my PC as well. On
>both machines it did not seem significantly slower than XP.
>Significantly more annoying, yes. Slower, no.

Thanks.

Among other things I'll need to run demos, so turning off the glass
window borders, etc., won't fly. Thanks for the info though - I
guess I'll /have/ to get a MacBook Pro! :)

Dave

Lewis Butler wrote: or Parallels? Worked fine.

How have you done that?

I tried to install Vista Beta2 B5387 onto Parallels with Parallels setting to 'Other Windows' because Vista is not yet listed.

I get the error status 0xc0000225 and the message "Windows failed to load because the firmware (BIOS) is not ACPI compatible."



Marcel