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Minimum Requirements for Longhorn

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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

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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.  :D
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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.
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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.

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