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LOL, installing vista beta on my laptop

Shawn

Shawn

Lifer
"Installation is taking longer than expected, but should be finishing soon." :Q

it has been at it for over an hour now I think. wonder what the system requirements are.
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
3 GHz, 1GB RAM, Radeon 9800+
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seriously??

edit: laptop specs are:

1.2 GHz Celeron Mobile
640MB ram (64mb reserved for video card)
20GB hard drive.
 
Originally posted by: Merlyn3D
Originally posted by: Shawn
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
3 GHz, 1GB RAM, Radeon 9800+
Click to expand...

seriously??

edit: laptop specs are:

1.2 GHz Celeron Mobile
640MB ram (64mb reserved for video card)
20GB hard drive.
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Wow...that's dog slow 😛
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tell me about it. it still has the message on the screen that it "should be finishing soon." yeah right...
 
we should be getting official copies once it hits release candidate 0 in march or whenever it happens
 
Originally posted by: Shawn
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
3 GHz, 1GB RAM, Radeon 9800+
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seriously??

edit: laptop specs are:

1.2 GHz Celeron Mobile
640MB ram (64mb reserved for video card)
20GB hard drive.
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Those are the only specs I've seen so far, they may just be recommended, not required.
 
do all the vista betas have the media center portion? I am trying to find a copy to beta test the media center portion on my htpc.
 
Damnit! This is dog slow. It just restarted and now it says "Please wait..." Hopefully it's just because it's beta. If the final version takes this many resources I don't think I'll ever upgrade to vista.

edit: Now it says "Please wait for the Local Session Manager". wtf is that?

edit2: "Please wait for the user Profile Service..." LOL
 
How Long did it take for Microsoft to say you can be a beta tester after you submited the survey?
 
Originally posted by: Shawn
Damnit! This is dog slow. It just restarted and now it says "Please wait..." Hopefully it's just because it's beta. If the final version takes this many resources I don't think I'll ever upgrade to vista.

edit: Now it says "Please wait for the Local Session Manager". wtf is that?

edit2: "Please wait for the user Profile Service..." LOL
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Yeah, you probably have an MSDN subscription. :roll:
 
I installed vista (the latest beta) on vmware, it does take very long to install, and it takes some workarounds to complete installation on vmware, but eventually it installed.
Vista looks like an improved xp as far as GUI goes.
They have a couple of neat visual effects, like when you want to resize icons you can do it using a drag button, rathen than xp's radio buttons.
Anyway, I'm not going to review the damn thing now, but buttom line is that it looks and feels nice (also explorer 7), though I'm no yet convinced it's worth the $$$ for upgrading from my current xp pro.
For all of you who would like to try it, you can d/l from MS's site for free, and loads of other less legal places over the net. If you don't wanna fvck your own system for that I suggest installing it over VMware or VirtualPC.
I don't know minimal requirments for sure, though it's probably somthing like:
intel 1.4 Ghz (or equiv.), 256 mb of RAM, 16gb HDD, and some sort of a graphics card (probably your riva TNT won't do thoguh...).

have fun
 
Originally posted by: narcotic
I installed vista (the latest beta) on vmware, it does take very long to install, and it takes some workarounds to complete installation on vmware, but eventually it installed.
Vista looks like an improved xp as far as GUI goes.
They have a couple of neat visual effects, like when you want to resize icons you can do it using a drag button, rathen than xp's radio buttons.
Anyway, I'm not going to review the damn thing now, but buttom line is that it looks and feels nice (also explorer 7), though I'm no yet convinced it's worth the $$$ for upgrading from my current xp pro.
For all of you who would like to try it, you can d/l from MS's site for free, and loads of other less legal places over the net. If you don't wanna fvck your own system for that I suggest installing it over VMware or VirtualPC.
I don't know minimal requirments for sure, though it's probably somthing like:
intel 1.4 Ghz (or equiv.), 256 mb of RAM, 16gb HDD, and some sort of a graphics card (probably your riva TNT won't do thoguh...).

have fun
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is there a legal way to get it now instead of waiting for ms to give a beta certification thing?
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
3 GHz, 1GB RAM, Radeon 9800+
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Quit posting heresay and rumors. Specs will obviously be more than typical, but that's expected for an OS that's coming out 5 years after it's predecessor. But don't look for minimum specs to far exceed what you saw for XP. Now if you want to run Vista with all the bells and whistles, then that's another story.
 
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