OT: vista cool feature!

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007, GCC Consulting wrote:
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>> elestial.com] On Behalf Of Laura Brody
>> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 8:14 PM
>> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
>> 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:
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>>   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.

Given that M$ recommends at least 1GB of RAM that sounds like a
losing proposition.

Somebody commented recently ron relatively poor benchmarks of Apple
hardware.  If it's so poor, why do so many people doing high-end
video production do it on Apple?  My 867MhZ PowerBook with 512MB
RAM works quite nicely with fancy 3D graphics effects (the ones
Microsoft is trying to mimic with Vista :-), Microsoft Office
applications, etc.  Furthermore, every version of OS X I've run
since I started using it about six years ago has been faster than
the previous version, and runs acceptably on old G4 hardware.

If I had a need to run Windows, I would probably do it on an
Intel Mac under Parallels.

Bill
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