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- inactive, on 07/06/2008, -2/+49A LOT of speculation in this article for an OS not even past its milestones yet.
- peterjmag, on 07/06/2008, -4/+45When Windows 7 Arrives, I'll Still Be Using XP
- exec0extreme, on 07/06/2008, -8/+24When Windows 7 Arrives, Will I Care?
- Pake, on 07/06/2008, -1/+17"Note: As with all Windows Sentinel widgets, you'll first need to register for your free Windows Sentinel account, which my company (Devil Mountain Software) developed based on years of experience benchmarking system performance for Microsoft and Intel."
Oh that's nice. Seems to me this is more about advertising their widget than anything else. Maybe if we knew more about Windows 7, this article would be useful, but until then, buried for self-promoting your product over truly describing Windows 7. - LightSpeed4, on 07/06/2008, -3/+14wont arrive for years, who gives a *****.
- dha07030, on 07/06/2008, -1/+11I think it's a little late to be talking about Windows 7, I need to know about Windows 9
- batmanz, on 07/06/2008, -1/+10I don't know, is they?
- akcom, on 07/06/2008, -2/+11Shameless plug with a worthless application.
- Mononuclear, on 07/06/2008, -1/+9This guy admits he has no idea what the actual requirements are going to be, only that they will be more than Vista and then he makes some general assumptions like You need at least a Dual core and 2GB of ram. He does not know and can't possibly know the requirements of an OS that is not going to be released for another couple of years.
This is a shameless plug at some spyware software from his own company and has no value as an article.
Yeah I went to the download page. 14 required fields.. When I see more than 3 required fields on a registration form I leave. - jakem1, on 07/06/2008, -0/+6Yeah brilliant! I really needed to read an article that didn't tell me ANYTHING useful but asked me to sign up for some account on the authors website.
- Chirp08, on 07/06/2008, -4/+9There is no ***** reason for Windows 7 to require anything more then Vista. Hell, it shouldn't require more then XP as far as I'm concerned. Microsoft needs to step up their game, none of their competition is having trouble achieving the same eye candy without requiring the newest hardware and 10gb of memory.
- Borisvladislav, on 07/06/2008, -2/+6Same here.
- c0r3file, on 07/06/2008, -1/+5I'm not even a Windows hater, and yet still I found the premise of this article ridiculous.
- xSledgewick, on 07/06/2008, -3/+7Wait a minute... isn't 7 being developed so early due to people not liking Vista and because they need a rebound?
I thought Microsoft was going for a less robust and more modulated operating system. That's at least what I've heard from... everyone but PC World. It's sad they don't know more about computers and what's going on relentless of the fact that they're called ***** PC World. They can blow it out their ass. I'll bet they haven't even heard how 7 is being rebuilt from the ground up; kernel and all. - theMADone, on 07/06/2008, -0/+3i dual boot ubuntu with vista ultimate now and ive got a q6600 with 2gb of ddr2, and 2 x 512mb 8800 gts. im not defending m$ here, cause i turned alot of stuff off to make it into xp with aero and dx10, but after sp1 the whole os is much faster now, no lag at anytime at all now. your friend must have something wrong with his rig or hes not put sp1 on yet.
- thrallie, on 07/06/2008, -2/+5Yeah I will probably use XP for the very far future. At least until a game I really want to play becomes vista only.
- afx1, on 07/06/2008, -0/+3FTA: "Note: As with all Windows Sentinel widgets, you'll first need to register for your free Windows Sentinel account, which my company (Devil Mountain Software) developed based on years of experience benchmarking system performance for Microsoft and Intel."
how not to attract any user with half a brain - Mononuclear, on 07/06/2008, -0/+3When I registered there wasn't more than 4.
- Mononuclear, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2Actually from what I have heard the modular idea will not be in Windows 7. Its like the File system that was supposed to be in Vista. They claimed it would be there but then scrapped it for whatever reason.
Windows 7 Is not a kernel rebuild but is based on Windows server 2008 which itself is based on Vista. - xendo, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2My Vista box has an Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core +4400 (2.3ghz), 2 gigs of RAM, and a 7200rpm 300GB HDD.
I opened IE in 1.5 to 2.0 seconds, and control panel (with and its various sub menus excluding "NETWORK") in a second or less.
I, personally, use Opera and Firefox. Opera starts immediately as it is my default browser, and Firefox (which I use rarely, only when a site is incompatable with Opera, and thus not prefetched) takes 3.0 seconds. My system is responsive and snappy, and it makes me wonder what kind of malware and processes your friend has running in the back ground.
A few seconds here or there, yeah. Anything close to five? No. Even my Mac, for all intents and purposes, has roughly the same response rate. The only real timing difference is between bootups and shutdowns. - ozid, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2I ran vista great on integrated graphics, 5400rpm HDD, 2gb ddr2 and Core Duo (not C2D).
I'm not sure if my perception of what "fast" is is out of whack, but I thought it ran like a dream.
As I have been saying for months, it's very important to read the HCL before you jump into a new OS. You can't rely on vendors to give you working stuff these days, and it's a shame. - MosX, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2Microsoft isn't using MinWin in Windows 7. It's more of a concept.
- zwaldowski, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2PC World is *****... but I haven't heard it, either. Maybe it's because Microsoft isn't rebuilding anything for Windows 7. That came from Microsoft directly; they wouldn't dare break driver compatibility once again after Vista.
- twiztidsinz, on 07/06/2008, -1/+3YAY! More needless and baseless Vista Bashing!
"Experience has shown that, to get acceptable performance with Vista, you need at least two CPU cores." I have single core CPU and Vista ran amazingly well on my 3.4Ghz that I got a number of years back.
"Likewise, given Windows Vista's penchant for consuming large quantities of RAM, we're setting 2GB as the minimum memory configuration for Windows 7." And again... Windows XP uses 850ish MB of RAM when I have my standard (Firefox, Trillian, MediaMonkey, uTorrent, Steam, PeerGuardian, Avast, Alcohol 52%, etc), Vista would use about 1000MB with the same.
I dunno.. maybe I just have 'teh l33t hax' and my computer outperforms newer PCs. - DJWilsonX, on 07/06/2008, -3/+5no thanks...I'll stick to open-source.
- arjie, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2/bin/yes
- FearlessFreep, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1and why does it take them.. eight years to get to that point?
- jakem1, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1Microsoft have clearly done something wrong to piss your friend off so much.
- Perjorative, on 07/06/2008, -1/+2Blog Spam. No real inside information - just pushing their own adware app. Buried.
- dhughes, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1 Possibly, I never noticed but more than likely it has Norton on it.
- Fluvant, on 02/27/2009, -2/+3Long live Windows XP!
- hugolp, on 07/06/2008, -2/+3Sorry to decieve you, but MS has officially said that Windows 7 will have Vista's kernel. They have said the internals of Windows 7 will be the same as Vista's, but they will add more visual candy and "other surprises". So you will need a heavy heavy computer to run Windows 7.
- dhughes, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1 Oh and for the record that obviously should have been 'FSB is 667MHz' not 6667MHz, that would be sweet! But anyway I think it's 1066MHz.
- RandoTheKing, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1Yes because the look of MacOSX is the reason it's better than Vista.
- dhughes, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1 If I didn't do it and automatic updates are not on then probably not, I doubt he did. I'll have to have a look next time.
- Wang, on 07/06/2008, -1/+2This is unfounded nonsense - buried.
- bar10dr, on 07/06/2008, -1/+2What a load of *****, checking if your computer can run a OS that's not even released yet?
- suprxtragrav, on 12/09/2008, -1/+2After hearing about MinWin, I would hope that Windows 7 isn't as bloated as this article says it will be.
- jrbrewin, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1this continual "my pc's not good enough to run windows version X" ***** is getting right on my *****.
guess what, my 2 year mac book pro (2gb mem, 2.1 ghz core duo) runs vista better than it does osx 10.5 (boot time, general responsiveness, multitasking). To be fair, they both run like crap because it's old hardware. the same can be said about any full dvd install of most recent linux distros too.
if you want to run a recent or new OS buy new hardware, or upgrade ffs, and stop your whining!! and you're really expecing to run an OS that isn't even out yet. get real.
i bought a new high end core 2 duo pc, 4gb mem, 512mb gf8800 for £700 and it runs vista brilliantly, and i'm sure it would with osx too, if apple would let me. oh well. - vinceislegend, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1Lol I'm on Linux now. I just wanted to get buried. :-)
- sx66gns, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1Yea , the stupid widget doesn't work on ubuntu....
/...do I need to? - FearlessFreep, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1He's got a point. One thing I've noticed in upgrading Ubuntu versions and going from Tiger to Leopard is that the new OS will run faster on the same hardware. Seems some developers see t hat part of the process of improving the software is to improve the performance of the existing routines. MS seems to think that developing a new OS means making it slower...meaning that to get decent performance wiht the new OS requires hardware upgrades
- assbeard, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1well that's my point. They've been doing this for so long, it's about time they could make a product and release it with no huge problems. It's ridiculous.
- jellygraph, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1yeeeeeeeees.... oooohkaaaay
- Aeron, on 07/07/2008, -1/+1why can't they make it light and snappy like Firefox 3?
- kontraire, on 07/06/2008, -3/+3No, mine won't, because it will never run a version of Windows higher than XP.
- Kanidia, on 07/06/2008, -1/+1Microsoft needs to push Hardware updates because they make money and hardware companies make money. I'm not saying that it's good, but it's what they do.
- rrife, on 07/07/2008, -0/+0I'm running Vista Premium w/ Aero on a 1.1ghz ULV Core Solo, 1GB Ram & Intel GMA...runs just fine. So I'd assume Windows 7 will run on it as well, but honestly by the time W7 is out, I'd hope that any computer I'm currently using will be in the dumpster.
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