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Vista drives a hardware shake up
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
When Vista and its server version, Longhorn, finally arrive, they will herald a change in basic 
hardware requirements, especially for desktop systems. The anticipated arrival of Windows Vista and the server version, Longhorn, next year will bring big changes to today’s hardware. One of the main changes will be the basic requirements for desktop systems. Microsoft has released details of the minimum and optimum requirements for running Vista.
At the top end, to run Vista in all its glory, with much publicised Aero graphics, a system will need a 32-bit or 64-bit processor running at 1GHz backed up by 1Gbyte of system memory. Given Windows’ history of upping the minimum processor rate and memory requirements, this is not so surprising. But it is the new specification for graphics that is causing concern.
To run the new interface, with its Aero Glass effects and Rolodex-like Flip 3D feature for selecting applications, a computer will need a high-end graphics processor with 128Mbytes of onboard memory to support a normal LCD screen resolution of 1,280 by 1,024 pixels. ComputerWeekly.com - Vista drives a hardware shake-up - Technology\Systems Software - 04/Jul/2006
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