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Vista Requirements Released
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- 03:00pm Jul 19, 2006 PSTvia emailSome time ago (11:58 AM -0700 5/18/06), Glenn Fleishman wrote:
>[...]
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>In brief, the minimum you need is an 800 MHz processor, 512 MB of
>RAM, and DirectX 9 support in the graphics processor. The last item
>is tricky for PC owners with older gear or who don't want to have
>research this factor for a new PC. Intel-based Mac owners need not
>worry. Even the MacBook's Intel GMA950 supports DirectX 9.
>
> <
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/>
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>[...]
Now that there are betas of Vista in fairly wide circulation, has
anyone tried it on a MacBook using either Boot Camp or Parallels?
I'm wondering if a 1GB MacBook would have enough "oomph" to run
applications in Vista at a decent speed. (I'm wondering about
productivity apps, not games.)
Thanks.
Dave
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Re: Vista Requirements Released
On 19 Jul 2006, at 16:00 , maclists  additional.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.
--
Rent a flat above a shop, cut your hair and get a job, smoke some
fags and play some pool, pretend you never went to school and still
you'll never get it right cuz when you're lay'n in bed at night
watching the roaches climb the wall if you called your dad he could
stop it all.
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Re: Vista Requirements Released
At 3:02 PM -0700 7/20/06, Google Kreme wrote:
>On 19 Jul 2006, at 16:00 , maclists additional.com wrote:
>[...]
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>>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
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mhochuli
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Jul 29, 2006 1:20 pm
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Re: Vista Requirements Released
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
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