Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
After takin' a swig o' grog, Terry Porter belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
However, from past experience knowing that whatever "minimum specs"
Microsoft states for an operating systems needs to be substantially
boosted - doubled in the case of memory - what are we to make of the
minimum specs below?
* 1GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
* 1 GB of RAM (32-bit)/2 GB of RAM (64-bit)
* 16 GB of available disk space (32-bit)/20 GB (64-bit)
* DirectX 9 graphics device with Windows Display Driver Model 1.0 or higher
driver
My XO runs Linux decently with 256 Mb of RAM and a 1 Gb SSD.
'nuff said.
Indeed, the recent release of Ubuntu GNU/Linux requires 256 MiB of RAM
as well and on http://gnome-look.org there are hundreds of themes and
eye candy available. The same counts for KDE. Simply right click on your
desktop and choose your favorite theme or "widget" (Plasmoid).
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24773/1023/
Furthermore, everyone and their dogs know that if you tried to run Vista on
a computer with the above specs you would probably take a hammer to the
device in frustration. Will the same be true of Windows 7?
My Acer Aspire 7220 was shipped with Vista Home Basic. Although I really
*Love* the look of Vista, I ditched it after five days, because it is so
_damn slow_ and it reinstalled itself, only because I removed the "tryware".
I might be wrong here, because I am not such an intelligent "visionary
intellect" like William Henry (Billyboy) Gates, but I predict that
Vista7 will be Yet Another Microsoft Failure, because from the user's
point of view there is 0 INNOVA~1 this time. Windows 7 is what Vista
should have been and it's nothing but Windows ME III.
Screw Microsoft, they have totally lost it :-p
With Windows 7, Microsoft has chosen to leave the coming sub-$200 market to
Linux.
In comparison to current USER FRIENDLY GNU/Linux distributions, you at
least need a Master Degree in Computer Science to get the POS which is
called Microsoft Windows up and running :-D
Cheers
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