Windows Vista Update

vista

by sarvaan
(erode,tamilnadu,india)

Windows Vista news. Pretty much everyone is hearing something (good or bad) about the OS very frequently.

I have to admit that I wasn't at all excited about Vista, especially due to all the hype around it (and the talk about Aero being the only thing worth mentioning).

However, after being bombarded with news about the new features and countless messages from Mac fanatics claiming that Vista was just a Mac OS X copycat, I decided to take a look at what everyone was talking about.

The Windows Vista site offers an upgrade advisor that serves to test your system to check if it will be able to run the new OS.

The system specs of the computer I used for this test are: Athlon XP 2700+ / 2Gb RAM / GeforceFX 5200 AGP 8x 128mb RAM. The advisor doesn't give you any kind of "score," but on my test it showed that I was able to run an Aero-enabled Vista. The obvious next step was to actually test it on my system.

One of the things you hear the most about Vista is the fact that you need a very powerful system to run it.

Almost every computer manufacturer carries "Vista Capable" PCs, which helps to support this belief, and there's even one commercial in the "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" campaign that makes fun of that.

However, I am the kind of person that likes to base his opinions on experience rather than what others say, and I was ready to run Vista or see my computer die trying.

Vista offers a scoring system that serves to test your computer and give you ideas on the areas that you have to pay attention to improve your performance.

My computer got a poor 2.6 base score, which is not very promising (not even encouraging).