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Skriven 2006-06-16 17:10:33 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Vista Beta Install
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Jeff's suggestion that I try burning a DVD at 1x seems to have done the
trick... at least my 3-year old Dell laptop has started booting to THAT
disc which is more than it did with the two other copies I'd tried.

Since I'm just at the very beginning of what will almost certainly be a
long installation, I can't make any comments on it yet-- but I know that
the 32 MB graphics card on the laptop will not support the high-end
fancy 3D graphics and transparency of Vista's (optional) Aero interface.

For that, a minimum of 128 MB of graphics memory is required-- and some
reviewers are suggesting that 256 MB is a better bet. (Certainly it's
been worth doubling all of MS's minimum requirements in the past). That
leaves out many/most current or recent desktop and notebook systems--
especially the huge number of notebooks with shared-memory video systems.

(Interestingly, the Mac OS X equivalent requires 32 MB of video ram...
I'm not sure why the Mac is able to manage transparency and 3D effects
in 1/4 to 1/8 the video RAM that Microsoft seems to require to copy
those effects).

Less fully-equipped computers are supposed to be able to run Vista
either with an interface similar to XPs or to Win2000.

Anyway, we'll see how far this gets-- right now, it's loaded an
attractive blue graphical screen and a mouse cursor, but no text-- and
has been sitting here, with intermittent hard drive light flashing for
several minutes. If it wasn't for the drive light activity, I would
assume it had frozen.

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