On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:57:56PM -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> If you want to run Vista, you either need to either buy a new graphics
> card or mother board, or buy a new computer with a Vista capable video
> system.
This is only true for certain 'premium' versions of Vista. And you can
turn off the fancy new gadgets to reduce resource usage.
Modulo everpresent driver bugs, existing graphics should work just fine
on Vista.
Vista is a resource hog, but that's normal for each new version of
Windows (and often Linux too!).
> Where the conspiracy theory come in is if people buy new systems. What
> happens to the old systems? Legally, it you sell or donate the
> computer, the license to run the old version of Windows is no longer
> valid, but even if the new owner continues to illegally use the old
> version, support will expire and it might not run new applications. In
Support expiration is completely unrelated to not being able to run new
applications built specifically for Vista.
/Of course/ you cannot run Vista-specfic apps on XP or 2000. Just like
you cannot run apps compiled on Fedora 7 on Fedora Core 2.
> These new Vista capable computers are not going to be good to run Linux
> on unless they have an Intel mother board chip with on board graphics
> (mostly the G765, but there are a few others).
Vista capable computers == all new computers. And /of course/ there
will be Linux support for new computers. That will not change.
> etc. computers are an interesting question. There may be a lot of them
> if the M$ Lemmings all upgrade. Many of these will not be upgradeable
Most independent researchers seem to think, and I agree, that people
will "upgrade" when they buy a new machine, and not before.
As you can see from the tepid Vista launch, there were not hordes of
people waiting for stores to open on Jan 29th, to buy Vista.
> used computer. So, these systems are either basically dead, or they
> represent a great opportunity if people choose to install Linux, BSD, or
> Solaris on them.
No. Really, nothing will change materially from today's situation.
Jeff
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