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Close but no cigar Posted by Ari [Email]  (#2847) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Ari) on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:34:31
In Reply to: Re: Mac., AdamB   [Profile/Gallery]
, Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:13:34
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Vista does promise a significant upgrade to older version of Windows, but in many cases, it brings Windows machines up to where OSX has been for years. And OSX continues to advance....
Subjective sniping aside (mine included), one issue with Vista is that it is a memory and processing hog. As the original poster found out, just because a machine comes with Vista doesn't mean that it has the horsepower to run it. There has been considerable comment on this in the press (CNET, etc). Vista is great if you have bought a powerful dual-processor machine with 2GB of RAM. Even Microsoft expects that most new Vista installs will be on new machines - most every machine except the few very top-of-the-line ones more than 18 months old don't have the guts.
It'll be an issue in the large sub $1K market, where folks are looking for something to browse the web, send email, and play a few games. It's tough for those folks to have to spend more on hardware just to run the OS. Not as much an issue for the high-end gamer machines.
As to the business market, I expect they'll hold back for a while. At my company (a Fortune 100 company), we are only just migrating to XP from Win 2000. I expect we won't see Vista for a couple of years, at least. The IT organization isn't about to (1) instantly make a large portion of the installed hardware base obsolete, and (2) risk ANY interoperability issues with exisiting software and systems, including a lot of custom stuff. And I expect we're not the only company biding their time.
MS recognizes this in providing a variety of Vista levels, where not only are the lower end ones cheaper, they require less process power and memory. And provide fewer features.
Is Vista DOA? Of course not. But I don't see folks lining up to buy it. It will show up on consumer machines as they are bought, and eventually it'll infiltrate business. But it is a definite case of Buyer Beware - Don't cheap out on the hardware!
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