nightzip SG Vista is a notebook killer Eats the resources and spits out the bones By Nick Farrell: Wednesday 18 October 2006, 07:49 WHILE MANY fear that Microsoft's super soar-away operating system Vista will force them to buy new hardware, one analyst has warned that laptop batteries cannot handle it. Speaking to Wired, Nathan Brookwood of Insight 64pointed out that the Vista's operating system's graphics power demands will suck the life out of most batteries far too fast. Punters who try to use Vista on their laptops will find themselves having to disable the graphics functions because their battery is going to dry far too quickly to be useful, he said. Those rare laptops which have graphics cards that can handle Vista could be doomed to spend their life plugged into the mains. When Vole introduced Windows XP, and Windows 95, both operating systems offered a range of more graphics-oriented user interfaces compared to their predecessors. But with Vista it is the first time that it has required shedloads more processing and graphics computing power. Brookwood said that Vista's release will mean that many companies are going to have to buy lots of more gear, which will make the hardware sellers happy. But punters who buy hardware in order to run software with graphically intensive interfaces will find Vista frustrating. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71947-0.html?tw=rss.index
FireIce SG yupz need alotta ram and a good graphics card unless u are willing to invest, pls stick to the somewhat stable XP
M©+square SG Windows XP user till there's opportunity to switch to MACkey. Oops. I think i just thought of a new product line for them. Cheers
ndmmxiaomayi SG Yes... with such a graphic intensive system... you need a great graphics card. This means you need a great PSU as well, and having a great PSU means using more electricity and paying higher bills. Now, it's time to switch.
ndmmxiaomayi SG Is not might be, is will be. The current hardware that most people have is probably unable to support Vista, especially for PCs older than 3 years old.
ditzy SG Apparently, not going to be very long. http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=215746
nightzip SG well, i think we can still use XP 32bit for sometime....like 1-2 years. With all the new stuff coming out, Kentfield, Clovertown architectures (the quad-cores..coming to us in 2007!!!) and the double GPUs you can put inside a single PC system, faster memory, etc...eventually...Microsoft thinks that by end 2008, almost 80% would have switched to Vista. But then more power will be needed, ==> higher electricity bills. and all these additional look-good options, is actually unwarranted anyway...
