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Vista Capable or Vista Premium label
Minimum 2 GB memory recommended
for any VISTA computer
.... and the minimum edition to get is Vista Home
Premium
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Microsoft Vista
comparison charts ........
Vista Shopping - Vista Help links &
articles
Vista's Compatibility
problems ....... (04-30-07)
ExtremeTech article -
Speeding up Vista (04-03-07)
Vista Tweaks - customize - short cut
web
site
Buying OEM versions of Windows Vista:
the facts
Windows Vista: Under the Hood -
ars technica
(06-07-07)
Great Vista article with explanation of different versions -
Walter S. Mossberg
"Even if you buy the Home Premium or Ultimate
editions, Vista will revert to the Basic features if it detects that
your machine is too wimpy to run the new user interface."
10+ tweaks, tricks, and hacks to make
Windows Vista fly
Windows
Vista Upgrade Advisor
WINDOWS EASY TRANSFER COMPANION -
XP settings to Vista computer
InformationWeek article - explaining Vista LOGOS
placed on retail computers
First, there's a sort of "base price" level -- what Microsoft is
calling the
"Vista Capable" logo level -- that calls for a CPU that runs
at 800MHz or better, 512MB of RAM, and a graphics processor that is
DirectX 9 capable. "Vista Capable" PCs are generally ready to run
Vista Home Basic, which won't run Aero and Flip3D or Windows Media
Center
Then there's a "nicely equipped at . . . " level -- the "Vista
Premium" logo level, in Microsoft-speak. A PC that wears the
Windows Vista Premium Ready logo sticker is supposed to be able
to run any feature in any version of Vista, and to do that it must
include at least a 1GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor, 1GB of RAM, 40GB
of hard drive capacity with 15GB free, a DVD Drive, audio output,
and support for Internet access. And some pretty hefty graphics
capabilities:
Support for DirectX 9 graphics with a Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM)
driver, a graphics driver architecture that's new in Vista
128 MB of dedicated graphics memory (minimum)
Pick A Graphics Card For
Vista
Pixel Shader 2.0, 32 bits per pixel capability. (Pixel shaders are
part of the graphics pipeline, the process of rendering
three-dimensional objects to the two-dimensional computer screen.
The 32-bit color depth represents enough data capacity to render
each pixel in any one of 16 million colors at one of eight levels of
transparency.)
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193500969
Advice on Shopping For a Windows PC - If You Must Buy Now -
Walt Mossberg 10-26-06
Make sure your new PC has a sticker "Vista Premium
Ready"
2 gigabytes of memory
128 megabytes of dedicated video "Premium Ready"
1 megahertz or faster CPU (Intel Duo or Core 2 Duo would be nice)
60 - 200 gigabytes of Hard Drive space
Hands On: A Hard Look at
Windows Vista
A comprehensive
feature-by-feature guide to Windows Vista.
Microsoft Vista upgrade
'advisor'
Vista, has something called 'Previous Versions' (an
implementation of Volume Shadow Copy). In the properties dialog of
any file/directory, there is a new tab called 'Previous Versions',
which will allow you to revert back to any previous revision of that
specific file/directory (Previous Versions saves around one revision
a day). No additional hard drives required.
Previous Versions is only available in Vista Business,
Enterprise, and Ultimate.
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