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Offline kode

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Reply #40 on: July 23, 2005, 09:07:19 am
I've been thinking about upgrading pretty soon anyway. or maybe I'll just buy a powarbook...

but xp runs smooth on 256mb ram. :)
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Reply #41 on: July 23, 2005, 11:11:11 am
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i remember hearing its specs say at least 1 gig minimum... that means i should start investing in 1gig ram sticks soon


:wtf: I just got 1 gig of RAM, for things like HL2, BF2, and fs2_open.

And you're telling me I need it to run Windows minimally? :wtf:
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Reply #42 on: July 23, 2005, 11:15:03 am
I doubt it. MS typically have low minimum memory requirements for their OSs. So low one might even think that they were making it up.

Who in their right mind would run Windows 2000 DataCenter on 128Mb of RAM for instance?
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Reply #43 on: July 23, 2005, 07:45:56 pm
I've seen XP machines run on early P2s with 128 MB of RAM. Granted they were extremely slow........



And I remember VB6. It was the first programming language I learned. Granted I didn't learn a whole lot and I forgot all of it. :p
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Reply #44 on: July 23, 2005, 11:03:56 pm
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I've seen XP machines run on early P2s with 128 MB of RAM. Granted they were extremely slow........
 


Drop that down to 64 mb of ram and a 300 something mhz p2, thats what some of the teacher workstations at my school run.  Most student ones are p4's with 512mb of RAM.:p
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Reply #45 on: July 23, 2005, 11:13:55 pm
Windows "Vista" supposadly will require hardware acceleration - JUST TO RUN THE DESKTOP. You know why? Because they're adding tons of useless crap, like windows that flutter in a virtual breeze when you click them, 3D icons, etc.
 

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Reply #46 on: July 24, 2005, 04:03:29 am
and just how many PCs running XP these days have no hardware acceleration capability whatsoever?
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Reply #47 on: July 24, 2005, 04:24:36 am
Yeah, I'd rather not have all my hardware acceleration being used to draw a directory I've got open. :wtf:
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Reply #48 on: July 24, 2005, 04:30:02 am
What else would it be being used for in that situation?
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Reply #49 on: July 24, 2005, 04:36:32 am
Does the Windows Classic theme really make that much of a difference in speed over the default XP themes?
 

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Reply #50 on: July 24, 2005, 04:39:19 am
Jaguar, Panther, and Tiger are much cooler names....

And desktop hardware acceleration is years old, in some circles...:p
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Reply #51 on: July 24, 2005, 04:48:04 am
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Windows "Vista" supposadly will require hardware acceleration - JUST TO RUN THE DESKTOP. You know why? Because they're adding tons of useless crap, like windows that flutter in a virtual breeze when you click them, 3D icons, etc.


I have no problem with hardware acceleration being utilized, it's when it's necessary to keep a decent framerate in Windows, with no apparent major UI improvements, that's what I don't like.
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Reply #52 on: July 24, 2005, 04:51:51 am
Ah well, everyone will be able to ditch Windows soon anyway.  When Apple switch to Intel next year, there will be a whole new version of OS X for everyone to enjoy.

No more viruses or security worries, it's the way forward...
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Reply #53 on: July 24, 2005, 04:56:42 am
The hardware-accelerated features of Windows Vista are completely optional. MS isn't that stupid, you know. At the low end of display greebles, WinVis (?) won't require any more graphics power than XP or 2k, from what I understand.
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Reply #54 on: July 24, 2005, 05:00:58 am
I honestly doubt that anything at the low end of being able to run Longhorn/Vista/whatever would not have some kind of hardware graphics accelerator...
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Reply #55 on: July 24, 2005, 07:23:08 am
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Jaguar, Panther, and Tiger are much cooler names....

And desktop hardware acceleration is years old, in some circles...:p

[color=66ff00]Sex Panther - it smells like gasoline.

Yeah, X11 (Linux gui daemon) has had the facility to use accelleration for some time now. It's a bit flakey due to non-open drivers though.
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Reply #56 on: July 24, 2005, 07:26:45 am
That's not the fault of the non-open drivers but rather the lack of overall stability in Linux development.
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Reply #57 on: July 24, 2005, 07:34:43 am
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That's not the fault of the non-open drivers but rather the lack of overall stability in Linux development.

[color=66ff00]Heheh you really have beef with the linux devs. :D

UPDATE: It seems Microsoft may have to rethink this: Link
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Reply #58 on: July 24, 2005, 10:04:40 am
It's flakey 'cause ATM it's more of a hack extension on top of X11.

XGL should provide for decent acceleration on X11.
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Reply #59 on: July 24, 2005, 01:31:36 pm
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The last major release, XP, went on sale in October 2001.


Holy cow! I never realised XP was that old!

And I hope they get sued over 'Vista' that would make my day ;)
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