Well, it's moot that a crappy system being sold by a vendor is good enough to run XP. It's also good enough to run Windows for Workgroups and DOS-but that's not the point.
Yes, Vista has higher hardware requirements. Just like XP has higher requirements than Win9x had, and just like Win9x had higher requirements than Win3x had. Every OS that comes out is likely to have higher requirements than the OS before it. But honestly, Vista's hardware requirements aren't crazy high. As I mentioned before, I'm running it at home on a Pentium D processor-which is a very modest CPU by today's standards. Vista works just fine with it. The biggest issue with the hardware vendors, as seen in the ZDNet piece, is the crapware installed at the factory. The author of the article got the Sony laptop working perfectly with Vista without changing the hardware at all. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 3:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Why XP is doomed Ken Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/11/2008 03:58:17 AM: > If a vendor sells an underpowered machine, then perhaps the vendor > should take some blame. I believe the point is that the hardware is not underpowered for Xp, but is underpowered for Vista. Especially if the vendor isn't (or can't ... ) offer XP on that hardware. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
