Windows Vista beta now available

[k19]

Anyone seen this yet? I guess MS is going to let us test drive this thing


http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx

Free til june 07

 

[Yeagermeister]

Anyone seen this yet? I guess MS is going to let us test drive this thing


http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx

Free til june 07

I have it and have installed serveral versions along the way. The beta2 that out now is by far the best but it needs to be installed on a good machine. I had it on a P4 2.8 ghz with 2gb of ram and it still bogged down at times.

I wouldn't suggest replacing XP with it but it's cool if you have a spare pc to play with.

 

[k19]

Athlon xp 64+ oc to 2.75g, 4g corsair XMS memory should cover it. I was going to install the 64 bit version as a fresh install but I think I'll just upgrade as a 32 bit for right now.

 

[Yeagermeister]

Athlon xp 64+ oc to 2.75g, 4g corsair XMS memory should cover it. I was going to install the 64 bit version as a fresh install but I think I'll just upgrade as a 32 bit for right now.

Plenty of machine but I personally wouldn't install it as a primary OS right now.

 

[k19]

I ended up putting it on a seperate 10k drive and figure I'll do it as a dual boot if I want to play with it or if not just run XP off my other hard drive. Its definitely different and I dont know if I like it that much yet. The network setup and a few other things are different in a vague setup way

 

[trickblue]

I ended up putting it on a seperate 10k drive and figure I'll do it as a dual boot if I want to play with it or if not just run XP off my other hard drive. Its definitely different and I dont know if I like it that much yet. The network setup and a few other things are different in a vague setup way

You could also run it on VM Ware then roll it back if it gets quirky...