In article <9543AD0A-F90C-4977-9E06-97A93B9B329D@microsoft.com>,
woogles@charter.net says...
of OS replacements and if my computer does not crash and burn between now
and then.
>
> What are your thoughts about the life of a PC in the coming age of Windows Vista?
>
Well, I think you've answered your own question. All that really matters
is if you are satisfied with the performance of Vista on your computer.
Now that the Vista Beta 2 has been made widely available we see that the
dire predictions of the hardware requirements for Vista were nonsense. The
amount of memory is very important. I would not want to run Vista B2 on a
machine with less than 1 GB memory. And the Aero Glass UI requires a DX9
video card with at least 64 MB of memory and Shader Model 2.0 support. Not
a big deal at all. There are many older machines that with some modest
upgrades will have no problem at all running Vista.