Gartner: Half Of Corporate PCs Can’t Run Microsoft Vista
If you want to get Windows Vista when it comes out, you probably should be thinking about new hardware, according to the research firm. It estimates that about half of corporate PCs aren’t powerful enough to run the forthcoming operating system. This is great news for the video card and memory industries!
Among the major requirements of Vista, compared with Windows XP or 2000, is a graphics card that supports Vista’s user interface and visual enhancements, which include translucent window frames and task bar, real-time thumbnail previews and task switching, enhanced transitional effects and animations. While these features within Aero won’t be important for many companies, other improvements in the UI will, such as better window stability, smoother screen drawing and interface scaling. In addition, computers will need at least 1GB of RAM to run Vista, and an additional 512MB if companies plan to use PC virtualization during the migration to run an older OS and Vista simultaneously, Gartner said. Just upgrading RAM on a PC costs from $100 to $200 per machine for many companies.
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