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It's getting at the fact that PCs would probably need upgrading in order to experience everything Vista offers - which is true, is it not?
For example,
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2068351,00.asp
94% don't meet the requirements needed for a experience of Vista Premium.
Fletcher
ClioSport Club Member
I love my imac, but isn't Windows Vista ment to be really good?
Kind of. You won't think it's that good if you're running Tiger already tho?
The "cool" stuff which would be useful, Tiger did in April 2005..
It is a nice upgrade to XP tho!
I'd definetly run Vista on a PC.
Fletcher
ClioSport Club Member
Well i am more then happy with my imac, i've had her for a few years now and had no probs [touches wood]
Yea, because the new cool things in Vista, OSX did in 2005.
Microsoft also used a Macbook Pro for demo'ing Vista - there's a video around of that!
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Exactly... EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING is not a requirement. Runs fine on my dev machine, which is over 3 years old and wasn't a top system then! Vista will run fine for even 5 year-old machines if you don't turn on all the gimmicks. I wonder what the latest OS X would run like on a 5 year-old Mac. I'm guessing the answer would begin with s and end in y. Don't forget MS like to make OSs as backward compatible as possible, something which would send chills down the spines of Apple developers.
Essentially, you do not need to upgrade most computers to run Vista, so that's a blatent lie in the ad. Also, if you do need to upgrade at least it's cheap and easy to do, unlike with a lot of Mac computers
So like I said, what a load of shite.
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Look for posts started by me in Technology chat, I was the one who posted it.
But that's a natural progression of systems, not a blatent copy. I see no-one is accusing Apple of copying MCE with their new iTV. Same old story MS copying blah blah... what's Apple systems built on again?
Aero is a pretty big Vista feature - if you can't run that, it's about as useful as XP for most people. Search is it's saving grace, if anything.
Really? Doesn't run fine on a 3 year old (top spec machine at the time) at at work, doesn't even have any of the "trick" effects turned on.
OS X runs like s**t off a shovel on a 5 year old mac. One thing Apple have consistently done with every release is make it faster for older machines.
Dunno what you're going on about with backward compatiability? Apple have made 68K->PowerPC->Intel transitions and through fat (68K->PowerPC) & universal binaries (PowerPC->Intel) have made it seamless. Even OS X (PowerPC) is capable of running OS9 < applications through the classic environment.
Lets not forget carbon, which wraps the cocoa api (what native OS X apps are written in) in the OS9 (and lower) api up so that OS9 applications could run as native OS X applications with minor effort. Apple are still adding and expanding the carbon sdk with features of the latest versions of OS X.
No idea where you got this idea about!
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