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post #1 of 6
6/23/06 at 12:16pm
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If anyone is interested, here is a list of Current Gateway Notebooks being sold RIGHT NOW, that are Capable and WILL run MS Vista OS also, I listed Older Gateway/Emachine Notebook Models that are Vista Capable

CX2620 Gateway
MX6455 Gateway
MX3228 Gateway
MX7527 Gateway
MX7120 Gateway
MX7515 Gateway
MX7525 Gateway
MX6440 Gateway
and all
M6811's Series Emachines w/ Direct X 9 or above installed
and all
7405GX's Series Gateway w/ Direct X 9 or above installed
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post #2 of 6
6/23/06 at 5:29pm
All that is needed to meet the minimum requirements for Vista (and be tagged "Vista capable") is an 800MHz CPU, 512MB RAM, DX-9 capable GPU, 32MB VRAM, 20GB HDD.

To be Vista premium ready, the requirements are 1GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, DX-9 capable GPU with Hardware Pixel Shader v2.0 and WDDM Driver support , 128MB VRAM, 40GB HDD.

With the exception of perhaps a RAM upgrade, these requirements (in particular "Vista capable") will include most every machine made for the past few years.
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6/23/06 at 6:29pm
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post #4 of 6
6/24/06 at 10:45pm
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Originally Posted by Thunder_PC
All that is needed to meet the minimum requirements for Vista (and be tagged "Vista capable") is an 800MHz CPU, 512MB RAM, DX-9 capable GPU, 32MB VRAM, 20GB HDD.

To be Vista premium ready, the requirements are 1GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, DX-9 capable GPU with Hardware Pixel Shader v2.0 and WDDM Driver support , 128MB VRAM, 40GB HDD.

With the exception of perhaps a RAM upgrade, these requirements (in particular "Vista capable") will include most every machine made for the past few years.

doesn't that exclude the 7405gx? i only have 64 video ram i think. to bad. i used thier "advisor" tool and they recommended home premium. said i can't use the advance capeabilities of the big one.
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post #5 of 6
6/24/06 at 11:31pm
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Originally Posted by thill
doesn't that exclude the 7405gx? i only have 64 video ram i think. to bad. i used thier "advisor" tool and they recommended home premium. said i can't use the advance capeabilities of the big one.
To be Vista Premium ready, the requirements are 1GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, DX-9 capable GPU with Hardware Pixel Shader v2.0 and WDDM Driver support , 128MB VRAM, the 7405GX will run Vista Home Basic, without Aero Glass, but not, Vista Premium Version, unless MS Changes it's requiements, or ATI comes up with better Driver support for 64MB VRAM? who really knows, Vista hasn't even reached RC-1 yet? looks like we will just have to wait-and-see? I had Vista Beta 2 on my 7405GX for a few days as a Dual Boot with XP, I really wasn't all that impressed with it, so I went back to XP PRO
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post #6 of 6
6/25/06 at 1:00pm
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Originally Posted by thill
doesn't that exclude the 7405gx? i only have 64 video ram i think. to bad. i used thier "advisor" tool and they recommended home premium. said i can't use the advance capeabilities of the big one.

It only excludes you from having official support for aero in premium. Most likely it will run it, but not optimally. I for one will not be runnning Vista on anything short of a dual core, 2GB+, modern GPU machine. Running Vista on older machines will be like running XP on PII 350 with 128MB or RAM. Sure it will work, but performance will be not-so-good. Vista has already been documented as killing performance compared to XP, which was to be expected. Much like when XP came out, and it was better to stick with 2k on older machines, you will be better sticking with XP on older machines when Vista comes out from a performance standpoint.
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