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Vista is the public release name for Longhorn (the codename)Quote:
Originally posted by CrazyGamer@5 Hours Ago
It would be neat to get some screen shots of longhorn, although that might be what this is (nobody has said different).
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Metal,
If it is purely hardware accelerated, without an option to use software accel they're going to run into some serious issues with older machines...and some newer...that use onboard video.
yeah, makes sense 43, lookling closely at some of the high res picks it looks like they have a distort on the transparency, so that if the border of the window is a curved glassy texture then it actualy magnifies the underlying objects just like a curved peice of half glass would. Obviously performance would suffer if they didn't do this via hardware.
Hmm... I would think they would provide options for more vanilla screens without the special effects. just like in xp where you can turn off features like menu fading and so forth. as well as changing the skin to the ol w2k skin (which beleive it or not, a lot of the senior people do... sigh).
Does OSX do the proper refraction/magnification type thingo for overlaying transparent windows?
Btw, i am realy starting to like how they have done the transparency, it realy kicks some serious lemmings!
Don't you believe that the hardware compatilbilty or recommended stats to run Vista will be at least 512 megs of ram and a good amount of harddrive space though? I'm pretty sure that you can't get a Dell for less than a good amount of money with a decent amount of RAM and onboard video, although I haven't been to nor seen a Dell in quite a long time.Quote:
Originally posted by unit_number_43@2 Hours Ago
Vista is the public release name for Longhorn (the codename)
Metal,
If it is purely hardware accelerated, without an option to use software accel they're going to run into some serious issues with older machines...and some newer...that use onboard video.
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I do agree, but why would non-savvy people want to go through the trouble of upgrading anyway. Like they want IE7 or new graphical features and functions. Especially those that would have to back up there files and programs and go through all that jazz. Granted it would make me a hell of a lot of money doing reformatting and installing new copy's of Windows Vista on every home I enter.
Whats wrong woth windows xp? I think it works great on its own. Atleast without SP2 that is.
I dont really like the new GUI. Looks ugly imo. They should make a red and black theme imo. No one has done that yet 0_0
Why is everyone impressed with the transparnecy? You cna do that in xp easily 0_0
The physical memory and hard drive size have nothing to do with hardware/software acceleration. that's all video card. And as you know many companies still use onboard video cards like Trident's or Intel's... Cards that by most accounts can't handle on the fly transparency.Quote:
Originally posted by Maverick@3 Hours Ago
Don't you believe that the hardware compatilbilty or recommended stats to run Vista will be at least 512 megs of ram and a good amount of harddrive space though? I'm pretty sure that you can't get a Dell for less than a good amount of money with a decent amount of RAM and onboard video, although I haven't been to nor seen a Dell in quite a long time.
I do agree, but why would non-savvy people want to go through the trouble of upgrading anyway. Like they want IE7 or new graphical features and functions. Especially those that would have to back up there files and programs and go through all that jazz. Granted it would make me a hell of a lot of money doing reformatting and installing new copy's of Windows Vista on every home I enter.
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i really like how it shows the file info along the bottom in a seperate box instead of hovering the mouse over it.
Well 43, you can buy a decent graphics card cheap.. either off newegg.com or ebay. So thats no big deal..
you can buy the new gefore 7 1.3gigs :), about 7grand tho lolz
It is if you bought a motherboard with on-board video. Since most of them don't even have an AGP/PCI-E port.Quote:
Originally posted by bigfatguy6969@42 Minutes Ago
Well 43, you can buy a decent graphics card cheap.. either off newegg.com or* ebay. So thats no big deal..
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Anyway, the point was that they have to allow for software-acceleration with that transparency effect.
and another thing, dont dl a leaked version, i did from limewire, got it installed, then i got a phone call from the head person at my interent provider company, asking me why i have thenew version of windows Iilegaly on my comp, thats when i hung up and uninstalled it lolz, so only installed the GUI ok no a leaked version
