July 28, 200521 yr Author Thanks jpattofrom what i'd read, i think that i won't consider running Vista on my powerful machine 1.5GHz 256 K / Ram 256 MB / VGA NV TNT2 32 MB / HDD 40G
July 28, 200521 yr I cant found information about HDD usage. How many space is needed for full installation of Vista? At http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvi...t/hardware.mspx just write "large disk".
July 28, 200521 yr Vista will ship on dvd ONLY.So while definite numbers is not available at this stage, a logical conclusion is The OS alone will need 5 GB of hdd space. Plus allow for more space for apps and swapfile and hibernation, etc.(just for comparison, Windows XP occupies 1.2 GB approx.)
July 28, 200521 yr Is it possible to enable the Aero effect with a Geforce 4 TI 4200 64MB AGP 4x, P4 3 GHZ and 768MB Ram ?
July 28, 200521 yr The size of the DVD is 2.46 GB<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Oh FFS...XP Home + SP2 = 518 MBs and Nuhi and the rest of us have enough trouble with that. 5 times that with Vista... great.
July 28, 200521 yr Its not the same, because on Vista DVD are build for different HW... So 32/64 versions x x86/ia64 architecture
July 28, 200521 yr i was wondering the same from a time ago ... do u remember ... "Microsoft is expected to recommend that the "average" Longhorn PC feature a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today.
July 28, 200521 yr 2SimonSays: This is requirement for "Full Aero" Vista... For normal OS it is much less... So I think that Vista wont need futuristic HW. But I will be sure when I will get hand on my copy of Vista Beta
July 29, 200521 yr i remember reading what SiMoNsAyS posted thereits going to be a while till we get that stuff, the amd X2 4800 only runs at 2.4 ghz unless that is refering to intel which will still take some time2 gigs of ram we all know is a must but i just hope that good 1gig sticks of ram will come out b/c the overclockers will be p***ed off
July 29, 200521 yr Here's the beta dvd sizes:Windows Vista Beta 1 x32 DVD 2.46 GBWindows Vista Beta 1 x64 DVD 1.73 GBLooks like the x32 build will probably need more hdd space than x64 build.
July 29, 200521 yr The size of the DVD is 2.46 GB<{POST_SNAPBACK}>but after install it gorws to 4GB+, running with 1GB of ram that is.
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