[Sussex] Microsoft Windows minimum system's

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Quoting Andrew Guard <andrew at andrewguard.com>:

> Windows Vista minimum
>
> 800 Mhz CPU (Recomended 1 Ghz)
> 512M Ram (Recomended 1G)
> I dont know but I wouldn't use anything like that for XP, persionaly I
> think the real minimum system set up for XP is what say it is for Vista.
> So what Vista real settings are is anyone guess.  Just think about it.

Well, with the Vista public beta I was getting pretty poor performance  
(There was an annoying lag just to get the Alt-Tab box to appear) with  
my PC, which is:

Athlon XP 2500 (1.8GHZ..?)
512M RAM
Oh, and a GeForce 6 graphics card - which should be more than capable  
of running all the 3D stuff.

Plus it took an hour to install. . .

Incidentally, if anybody wants the Vista install disc so they can  
laugh at how badly MS needed to delay Vista yet again, I've finished  
with it so you're welcome to have it. My "Vista vs. Ubuntu" review is  
almost complete. . .

On that subject, does anybody know if the next Ubuntu release will  
have XGL on it? That'd be about the last feature that Vista has that  
Ubuntu doesn't. . .

Cheers

Dominic