VISTA is due out next year for consumers, end of January. But, some people may wish to purchase computers now. Sure you can get a kick ass machine with lots of RAM, the new 8800GTX DX10 Card from Nvidia etc. today...but would you be spending money 'behind the curve' when new systems are due out in a month or so?
VISTA has three new features- SuperFetch and ReadyBoost and I forget the third. Basically these are supposed to use FLASH memory to load parts of the OS and frequently run programs,as well as to speed up Boot times (rumored to be near instantaneous in some cases). You are supposed to be able to stick just about any USB 2.0 drive that meets the speed requirements into your machine (Some have hit 8GB apparently) and VISTA will do some fancy stuff and use the USB drive as the FLASH memory for its superfetch operations. This bypasses your 'slow' hard disk entirely. However, the concern is will the top tier enthusiast manufacturers be bringing out machines with special VISTA features? For example including a FLASH board in the machine itself, or configuring the BIOS and system so that you get the 'Instant On' feature out the box etc. I'm not seeing any postings on the technology sites about this sort of thing, but I'm thinking it should be something that the Enthusiast manufacturers (Alienware, Dell XPS, Velocity, WidowPC,Voodoo PC, Falcon NW etc.) will provide. On the other hand, if these features aren't as fantastic performance wise as they appear to be on paper, then no manufacturer is going to setup machines specifically to take advantage of them. They will leave it up to the consumer to use a USB stick or other method if they so desire. Has anyone heard anything about these features? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:221649 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
