OT: M$ Vista Beta

Cliff Etzel wrote on 6/9/2006, 11:52 AM

So I took the plunge and installed on an old HD I had laying around just for giggles...

All I can say is what a hog!!! Sure it's beta, but a stock install of Vista Ultimate (Which was what installed) is 12.3GB!!!

My vid card is just old enough (GeForce 3 200) that I can't even open WIndows Moviemaker!!! Ok, What is so special about WMM that I have to upgrade my vidcard???

Looks like the scuttlebutt is true - most are going to need a serious upgrade in hardware just to run this OS - Even while typing this - my HD is thrashing about like I'm rendering a video file... Even with tweaking my aged system, I'm now having to face the reality of getting a new mobo, CPU and RAM... Oh joy.. more consumerism...

Cliff

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Chienworks wrote on 6/14/2006, 10:28 AM

I'm not sure about that 4GB for XP. I did a straight install, didn't change any options at all, just kept clicking all the default OK buttons. I don't think it used up any more than 2GB.

I also wouldn't worry about Vista taking up 12GB either. That's just a sliver of today's hard drives. And if you don't have a newer computer with a big hard drive then you're not ready for Vista anyway.

And to rebut those who talk about Linux being lean and mean compared to Windows ... The last standard Linux install i did was about 5GB for the base, and by the time i added the other stuff i needed it was up to 8GB.

DataMeister wrote on 6/14/2006, 10:56 AM

I was just thinking the same thing. What's up with these people complaining about a 12GB footprint? Especially on this forum where we deal with multi GB files all the time. You can buy a new 160GB hard drive for less than the price of the Vista upgrade.

Also, an nVidia 6xxx card can be found for less than the Windows Vista upgrade and I wouldn't be surprised if by January, the 7xxx series will be that cheap.

Performance, of course, is another matter. But I imagine that most of the performance issues are related to beta coding efforts and MS will probably clean up most of the code before it's released.