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Vista is Fast If You Have the Hardware
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
With Microsoft’s Windows Vista finally released to manufacturers and on the verge of making its way
to retail, we can at last get down to the business of examining precisely how well the new OS performs. In our first tests, we discovered that while Vista’s hardware requirements may be steep, it should run just fine–even with the Aero bells and whistles active–on machines that meet Microsoft’s Premium Ready specifications (1GB of RAM, and a DirectX 9-capable graphics board with at least 128MB of dedicated memory).
We installed the RTM (release to manufacturing) Vista Ultimate code on desktop and notebook systems of varying specs and ages, and then we ran a series of benchmarks to answer several key questions about Vista’s impact on performance. PC World - Lab Tests: Vista’s Fast If You Have the Hardware
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