re: windows visa Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 11:26 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Kiwi (2207 messages posted) I had both of the free Betas of Vista and tested it on several of my systems. I wasn't impressed, and never bought a copy. I already have Win7 running on a system here this time, although it is reluctant to let me be as unconscious of security between my various PCs as I prefer to be. I ran Win95 on 486's back in the day, but was already running Pentiums (at least one) by the time Win98 came along, but neither of those (Dx4/100 and P1 MMX 166) had more than 128 MBs of RAM (very expensive at the time). Win98 didn't seem slower than Win95 to me, although WinME did seem slower, when it came along (matched up to a P-II/400 PC). The first time I ever experienced slowness from Win98 and was annoyed about it was this summer, on a duplicate (to some extent) of the P-II I had when WinME was new -- both shared the Intel 440BX chipset, and the one I built with an Abit BX-6 runs about 20% slower in Win98 than it does in Win2000! Shortly after that one was tested, I had a Micronics MB running Intel's 430TX chipset that ran Win98 like a snail, slower than it would've run on a 486 Dx2/66, but the CPU was a 200 MHz P1 MMX processor. I tore that one down to send the bad MB to the recyclers. . Kiwi ** On Friday, October 30, 2009 at 5:44 pm, dhm wrote: > >Windows Vista home edition proved to be crippleware to get you to get the premium >edition. So here are the hardware reqs for the premium: > > 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor > 1 GB of system memory > 40 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space > Support for DirectX 9 graphics > > WDDM Driver > 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum) > Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware > 32 bits per pixel > > >I imagine it would really crawl at 1 GHz 32 bit. I had troubles with Win98 with >less than 1.5 GHz. I never imagined that anyone would try Vista without a 64 bit >processor. > >My source is: www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/get/system-requirements > > Written in response to: re: windows visa (dhm: Friday, October 30, 2009 at 5:44 pm) Responses to this message: re: windows visa (dhm: Monday, November 2, 2009 at 11:11 am) All messages in this thread [show all] windows visa (william redmond: Sun, Oct 25, 2009, 12:02 pm) re: w{W}indows v{V}is{T}a (Kiwi: Sun, Oct 25, 2009, 12:38 pm) re: w{W}indows v{V}is{T}a (gewg_: Sun, Oct 25, 2009, 5:55 pm) re: w{W}indows v{V}is{T}a (Kiwi: Mon, Oct 26, 2009, 3:46 am) re: w{W}indows v{V}is{T}a (gewg_: Mon, Oct 26, 2009, 9:53 am) re: w{W}indows v{V}is{T}a (Arminius: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 3:42 pm) re: w{W}indows v{V}is{T}a (gewg_: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 4:32 pm) re: w{W}indows v{V}is{T}a (Kiwi: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 5:01 pm) re: windows visa (gewg_: Sun, Oct 25, 2009, 1:00 pm) re: windows visa (gewg_: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 10:11 am) re: windows visa (Keith Stanier: Mon, Oct 26, 2009, 5:14 am) re: windows visa (gewg_: Mon, Oct 26, 2009, 9:08 am) re: windows visa (dhm: Fri, Oct 30, 2009, 5:44 pm) re: windows visa (Kiwi: Sat, Oct 31, 2009, 11:26 am) re: windows visa (dhm: Mon, Nov 2, 2009, 11:11 am) re: windows visa or master charge (Kiwi: Mon, Nov 2, 2009, 5:53 pm) re: windows visa (Steve: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 10:24 am) re: windows visa (gewg_: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 12:10 pm) re: windows visa (Steve: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 12:44 pm) re: windows visa (Arminius: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 3:33 pm) The competition for the desktop (gewg_: Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 1:22 pm) re: windows visa (J.R.: Mon, Nov 2, 2009, 8:10 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum