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Microsoft Longhorn *OMG*

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jim1976

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Microsoft is expected to recommend that the "average" Longhorn PC feature a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today.

The comments are yours

:Q

*edit* Don't shoot the messenger. I know for a fact that this is total BS, but I wanted to show how naive some ppl believe we are. 😛
 
I read this:
Microsoft is expected to recommend
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May or may not be true, but some parts of the spec sound strange.

GigE for example? AND a wireless link? Why would the OS require any network connectivity at all?

Graphics process 3x the performance of today's top end?
Most "average" PC's ship with either built in graphics or some FX5200/R9200 card, GFX processors 3x faster than a Radeon 9800XT in every shipped PC just isn't going to happen in quite a few years.

Terabyte of storage? For what? The OS sure isn't going to come anywhere near close to that, and even if it did, what would they ship it on? 20 bluray discs?
 
Originally posted by: Sunner
I read this:
Microsoft is expected to recommend
Click to expand...

May or may not be true, but some parts of the spec sound strange.

GigE for example? AND a wireless link? Why would the OS require any network connectivity at all?

Graphics process 3x the performance of today's top end?
Most "average" PC's ship with either built in graphics or some FX5200/R9200 card, GFX processors 3x faster than a Radeon 9800XT in every shipped PC just isn't going to happen in quite a few years.

Terabyte of storage? For what? The OS sure isn't going to come anywhere near close to that, and even if it did, what would they ship it on? 20 bluray discs?
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My thoughts exactly.
 
that's it?!

geez... my computer will handle that several times over :roll:

seriously though, unless this system is being designed to solve Pi, wtf? Plus, why wired AND wireless lan?

I must agree here that this is just speculation and probably BS b/c it doesn't seem reasonable.
 
Bull. Half of those requirements don't even affect the O/S...

Gigabit LAN as a requirement? For what? This in no way alters the way the operating system runs, just the external speed to other computers.
 
I would have to question any of this article's validity due to the fact that a lot of that technology doesn't even exist. How can you make a "recommendation" to use hardware that is anywhere from 2 to 3 generations away yet?

The other thing that bugs me about the article, is that it mentions 4-6 ghz processors. With the way things are shaping up, how could you make a recommendation like that since AMD and Intel are moving away from using the mhz/ghz label to name their processors? As many people already know, the mhz is a really lousy way to rate the performance of anything.

I just hope people don't actually take this pile of junk someone wrote as any type of fact.
 
i remember reading something similar. video cards are going to be alot faster because the os is going to be 3d. hardware vsync will be a standard feature also.

JB
 
So, they require a processors that haven't even been fabbed yet in any large scale, a ammount of storage that most users don't even have 1/4 of.

But yet require 802.11g??????? Heck, 802.11E, 802.11I, 802.11N would have sounded abit cooler, that and more in line with those trumped up stats....

My guess is that "might" have been requirements for the newer file system, (WinFS i think?), but thats been pushed back past longhorn as i understand, so, i really don't think those stats would be close to true now. Heck they might of the mixed up the stats for Exchange 2005 with 50 users...😉


That and not to mention with specs like that, they would only sell 1/10 of the copys they do today, since most of the working PCs at that point will never come close to those specs. My dads still hammering along with a 433 Celly on a LX board, and it loads up webpages and word just as fast as my 2.0 does.

EDIT: can't type, spell or sing
 
<speculation> These specs are going to be needed because everything will be coded in .Net. This means 50 MB of RAM just for .net notepad.

I wonder what activation scheme they plan to cook up this time?
 
Originally posted by: jim1976
Read this

Microsoft is expected to recommend that the "average" Longhorn PC feature a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today.

The comments are yours

:Q
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Well screw them, ill stick with windows XP (unless i can afford those requirements 😀 )
 
Originally posted by: KB
<speculation> These specs are going to be needed because everything will be coded in .Net. This means 50 MB of RAM just for .net notepad.

I wonder what activation scheme they plan to cook up this time?
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that why it requires a 6GHz processor, 2GB RAM, and a terabyte of disk storage...to copy the DNA sequence of the user, genetically engineer DNA-specific protective bacteria, and release a deadly bio-toxin that kills anyone besides the user who uses that copy of Windows. Then the gigabit ethernet and wireless will be used to call down Microsoft lawyers who will sue the dead person's family for attempted piracy.
 
Originally posted by: jagec
Originally posted by: KB
<speculation> These specs are going to be needed because everything will be coded in .Net. This means 50 MB of RAM just for .net notepad.

I wonder what activation scheme they plan to cook up this time?
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that why it requires a 6GHz processor, 2GB RAM, and a terabyte of disk storage...to copy the DNA sequence of the user, genetically engineer DNA-specific protective bacteria, and release a deadly bio-toxin that kills anyone besides the user who uses that copy of Windows. Then the gigabit ethernet and wireless will be used to call down Microsoft lawyers who will sue the dead person's family for attempted piracy.
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lol!
 
I think people aren't taking some things into consideration. This is probably recommended to use EVERYTHING on the OS. Maybe it will have stuff like TIVO, streaming HDTV... hence it will need a very good Video card, lot of ram, lot diskspace ect. Maybe the OS will do on the fly HDTV encoding. Who knows. There could be a million different things they are adding to this OS. Certainly we'll be able to run it with less but all these requirements are probably so it runs optimaly without a hitch or any wait time.
 
I think people aren't taking some things into consideration.
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There are no "considerations" to take. As was said, some of this tech is generations away. There is no (read: zip, sero, silch, nadda) way Microsoft is recommending hardware that doesn't yet exist. The recommendations are total BS. Period. And some of them, as also was mentioned already, don't even effect the operation of the OS. On top of that, the Alpha/Beta OS needs to run on hardware currently available. And furthermore, Microsoft needs to make the OS able to run on the average common demominator. Anyone other than Microsoft that makes any type of statement about what Microsoft will recommend for Longhorn is full of sh!t. Period.

\Dan
 
Longhorn will have to run on a Celeron. And we all know how those 6GHz Celerons will compare to 4GHz P4s and 3GHz A64s 🙂
Longhorn will have to use dial-up networking.
Longhorn will have to use current video cards, else they can't develop it worth a damn. And we have so much power in them it's unbelievable, in reference to a desktop GUI.
 
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