Minimum Requirements for Longhorn

[Paladin9]

Its not supposed to be funny fuck nut

[restin256]

And I was meant to be sarcastic.

[Paladin9]

quote:Originally posted by Stryker:
i've used xp on a 64mb computer before      

Actually you can run windows on a computer that does not meet the minimum requirements. I had a 300MHz computer with win2k and only 64Mb. The minimum requirement for 2k is 64, but this computer sometimes thought that it had 27Mb when it boots,(very weird) and 2k still worked.

[hm_murdock]

Longhorn will run on the same stuff xp and 2000 will

there will be no arguments because this is the truth.

[worker201]

If it doesnt get released until 2006/2007, how will they suck up money until then?

My lord, everyone will be using Linux by then!

[floakster]

At home I am running 2K on a 166 with 32M RAM. It's slow, but it never crashes.

Also runs AutoCAD 2004.

[hm_murdock]

I show pictures of boxes and it does allright with 768KB!

[young1024]

Next thing I know, Microsoft's system requirements are going to surpass our current hardware makers' abilities! No, wait, they're close to that already. And 3GHz... FYI, the current microprocessor's size is 90 nm, beyond that... we'll have to go subatomic soon. And that's not a good thing.

[WMD]

quote:Originally posted by jimmyjames.sytes.net:
Longhorn will run on the same stuff xp and 2000 will

there will be no arguments because this is the truth.

Yes there will be, Jimmy  

The current Longhorn betas are EXTREMELY slow on pretty much everything, thanks to the extra API layer MS threw in (apparently for security).  And, it has a modified XP GUI, and the XP theme is slow as it is.

[skyman8081]

quote:Originally posted by WMD:


Yes there will be, Jimmy    

The current Longhorn betas are EXTREMELY slow on pretty much everything, thanks to the extra API layer MS threw in (apparently for security).  And, it has a modified XP GUI, and the XP theme is slow as it is.

OMGOMGOMGOMG!! M$ IS TEH SUX BCAUSE A LEAKED UNFINISHED ALPHA IS BUGGY AND SLOW!!! LOLOLOL!!!

TEH LEAKED BETA'S ARE TEH SUXOR!!! M$ IS TEH EVIL!!! LOLOLOL!!!!

[WMD]

This wasn't leaked.  :rolleyes:

And knowing Microsoft, who knows what will get fixed and what won't.

[restin256]

I don't know how many times I've already said it, but M$ Betas are nicknames for final products.

<rant content="shityou'vealreadyheard">Remember five years ago when we were all using P2's with 128MB of RAM and Windows 98 (assuming you weren't a mac fan)? It went slow. Remember every time you said you wished you had a faster processor? Now that we do, windows XP still runs slow and buggy. In theory, that's because it no longer runs off of the command prompt (like Linux and supposedly Mac does); it's a Java app with hardware detection. Sure it has some new features, like transparancy, but that's nothing to add 2 gigahertz to your CPU about. Windows is bloaty and that's how they've earnned so much money, because people don't often have a choice of to run it or not.

</rant>

[ March 21, 2004: Message edited by: restin256 ]

[jtpenrod]

quote:
I'd guess for Longhorn:
800mhz
256Ram
2-3GB

Actually, I'm guessing $800.00 as a minimum requirement. That's before getting new apps to replace the ones that will no longer run on it.  
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[ShawnD1]

quote:Originally posted by WMD:
And, it has a modified XP GUI, and the XP theme is slow as it is.

Longhorn will probably have the option to turn most of that crap off. I too noticed that the XP theme was slow, so I turned all the junk off.
control panel >> system >> advanced >> performance >> adjust for best performance
The improvement in system speed is quite noticable. After setting it to performance, it looks exactly the same as Windows 2000. That's a strange coincidence......

[ April 09, 2004: Message edited by: ShawnD1 ]

[DukePuke]

btw Mandrake Linux versions 9 & 10 is fucky slow, almost as windoze XP, and all shit you got then install all 4 CD's will make mess on your hard drive.