OT: vista cool feature!

[GCC Consulting]

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> elestial.com] On Behalf Of Laura Brody
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 8:14 PM
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> Subject: Re: OT: vista cool feature!
> 
> Quoting "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:39:50AM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> > > Simon--er, no...it was GCC Consulting--said:
> > > > I will probably install Vista Business on one of my 
> extra machines 
> > > > to see how it runs.  More then likely it will be 
> underpowered but 
> > > > that will be a good test of the OS.
> > >
> > > How is that a good test of the OS?
> >
> > Because *lots* of people will probably run Vista underpowered boxen?
> 
>   You mean like the unwashed masses who borrowed a copy of XP 
> Pro from work and installed it on their PII, 400 mHz, 256meg 
> RAM, Win 98 box?
> 
>   *I* haven't seen that happen... <g>
> 
>    I fully expect one of these jokers to drag in a PIII box 
> with Vista on it any day now and tell me (with a totally 
> straight face) to "tune it up, it's a bit slow".
> --
> Laura Brody
Laura,

I had a client do one worse, pII, 64 Mb memory and Win XP home on a
workgroup network.  It loaded and ran filepro for 2 years until the machine
was replaced.  Since this was the only thing that computer did, it really
didn't stress the system too badly.  The machine has been replace with a P4
with 256MB which is more then fast enough for the order entry that this
person does.

I am going to test Vista on an extra Compaq with a pIII and 256Mb of memory,
which is the maximum that that machine can take.

I have a new model but I need to check if there are available Vista drivers
for it.  I got it used with no OS and installed WinXP Media Edition 2005 on
it and head to get all of the drives from the Compaq web site. 

I just want to see how really badly Vista will run on the configuration.
More then likely it will be a dual boot machine.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting