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Subject: So Vista is out Next Year? Spartan has just lost £5...
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Guys... please don't tell me that Windows Vista is coming out nex year. If it is i've just £5. lol

  • 04.10.2006 9:39 AM PDT
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Vista is coming out next year for normal customers. A very limited number of big retailers might -might (!)- have it at the end of the year.

Sorry bro :p

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  • 04.10.2006 9:43 AM PDT
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I believe it will be shipped to big players, e.g. DELL, for preinstall, for Christmas. However, the retail version will possibly not be until March 07. So you may not have lost your £5 after all. ;-)
Anyway, Vista will need a fairly high spec PC to run, so be prepared to spend some cash for best results. !!

  • 04.10.2006 9:49 AM PDT

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Actually I've read it would NOT be ready to ship to the big comp makers in time for them to put it on machines sold for Christmas. All the retailers were getting bent out of shape over this becasue they think it will kill sales for the month of December. Don't know if it will be available off the shelf sooner.

  • 04.10.2006 9:58 AM PDT
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Posted by: ImSpartacus
acually, i heard that the entire desktop will be 3d so if u dont have a mean graphics card, youll lose more than 5 bucks
there was somthin on gamespot about vista, i forget wat it was about, but i saw the desktop, whats it called aero? it was cool, but u kno they were runnin it on somethin souped up, it was flyin through the 3d images or watever u callthem...


Aero needs a DX9 256 MB card, without this Vista will run as a normal 2D screen. If you have the necessary GPU, then some of the processing will be handed over to the GPU, leaving the CPU to do better things ......

  • 04.10.2006 11:34 AM PDT
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Ha! That's right! And Spartan knows he owes it to yours truly...

  • 04.10.2006 12:52 PM PDT
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You don't need a spiffy gpu. Most of that stuff isn't even close to what happens in games.

  • 04.10.2006 1:27 PM PDT
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Vista comes out for Businesses in November 2006. It comes out for normal customers to buy in January 2007.

  • 04.10.2006 2:16 PM PDT
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You don't need a spiffy gpu. Most of that stuff isn't even close to what happens in games.So could I use a Nvidia GeForce FX 5500?

  • 04.10.2006 5:54 PM PDT

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we r?

great, well my graphic card pretty much sucks nuts, so I'm thinking of giving away my desktop to my brother, storing all information on an external HD, and have my dad buy me a new one, gateway's graphics suck.

  • 04.10.2006 9:55 PM PDT
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Not out 'til next year? Well, they just lost my $360. Too bad for them!

  • 04.11.2006 7:46 AM PDT
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You'll have to get Vista sooner or later. Just a matter of when you want to get it.

  • 04.11.2006 2:18 PM PDT