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How S-L-O-W Will Vista Go?
Monday, August 28th, 2006
The latest build of Window Vista is running faster, testers say. But will it be fast enough when it’s 
doing real work next year on our desktops? Or will we absolutely need some special sauce to keep performance up to snuff?
The complaints about sluggish performance in Windows Vista keep growing. While it’s unfair to point to beta software apps—or whatever Microsoft wants to call them—the warning flags are already evident.
A batch of complaints reached my inbox following my recent column looking at Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard and Vista. One message, from reader Randall Asato, warned that folks thinking they can run Aero on older hardware will be out of luck.
Asato observed that the demo games of Mahjong and Solitaire included with the Beta ran "awfully slow," even with the drivers written for Vista. His system has a 2.8GHz Intel P4 processor, 768MB of memory and an ATI All-In-Wonder 2006 AGP, which he admits is not the most recent GPU, "but it’s no slouch."
He said he expected that most upgraders will be at the least forced to purchase a new video card with sufficient VRAM (video RAM). How S-L-O-W Will Vista Go?
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