A NewsMax reporter bought a new laptop in August 2006 with a sticker that clearly stated “Windows Vista Compatible.”
On the advice of several software developers, the reporter ran a Vista compatibility scan available at the Microsoft Web site.
The scan’s report stated that the computer would run a severely stripped version of Vista (Home Basic: $99). It also revealed that the more than 20 programs that came pre-installed with the laptop (including CD burning and video storage) would have to be deleted or simply would not boot up using the new system.
Other software developers at the Microsoft confab told NewsMax that to really run Vista Ultimate, the version with all the bells and whistles, 2 gigabytes of memory is preferable, not 1 gigabyte as Microsoft states.
“I ran a test version with 1gig and it burned out my hard drive,” one Vista tester stated.
Question - does Vista really require much more hardware than OS X to get all the Vista features working well? All the features in OS X work really well on a 3-year old G5 Mac, right?
