VIA Arena on Windows Vista: Aero explained

[Supergrover]

"There is a lot of anticipation about the new Microsoft Windows Vista. In fact I still find it hard to believe that Microsoft aren't going to be ready in time for Christmas sales but alas, I guess the 30 January launch date is the quickest they can make it to market. Still, OEMs already have the new operating system available and through a haze of certifications, logos, platforms solutions and levels of support, retailers are promoting their solutions as Vista ready.

There seems to be a lot of concern over just how well Vista will work on different levels of hardware. Some analysts were predicting that Vista will spark a new hardware upgrade frenzy the likes of which we haven't seen since Quake III and TNTs made headlines. A lot of this hype surrounds the shiny new graphical user interface (GUI) named Aero. This article will separate the fact from fiction, the myths from reality and the Aero GUI from the Basic GUI."





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[enaberif]

still not sold on it.

[Gav]

It's definitely a resource hog. I've tried it on many different systems from low end to high.

What i've found is for it to run really smooth you need 2gb's of ram a 6600 or equivalent Video Card and a Athlon64 3200+ or Pentium D 805 or better CPU.

[sswilson]

I ran the Vista Upgrade Advisor earlier this week and discovered that it will not work with my daemon tools running so I'll be passing until I see that daemon tools is running and stable with it.

I don't use daemon tools for illegal purposes.... I use it to run ISOs of my legally purchased software so that I don't burn out the play disk.

Once software, hardware (think sony) & content (think sony again... :) )companies realise that law abiding consumers want to exercise their backup/fair use legal rights maybe they'll get off of the drm bandwagon and we can get back to being friends again.