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9300 and Longhorn...should I have waited?

post #1 of 15
3/30/05 at 12:12pm
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If (and I doubt) Longhorn is launched next year, I wonder how well will 9300 run it? I thought Longhorn was possibly delayed until 2K7. Maybe I should have waited until next year to buy a laptop? Your thoughts? Any Longhorn beta testers out there?

http://news.com.com/Longhorn+could+b...tml?tag=st.num
The result is that Microsoft is on track to deliver a new version of Windows next year, but it has been unclear about what, exactly, the OS will contain.
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post #2 of 15
3/30/05 at 12:15pm
Regardless, a 9300 will will the new MS OS just fine
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post #3 of 15
3/30/05 at 12:31pm
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Originally Posted by FearNo1
If (and I doubt) Longhorn is launched next year, I wonder how well will 9300 run it? I thought Longhorn was possibly delayed until 2K7. Maybe I should have waited until next year to buy a laptop? Your thoughts? Any Longhorn beta testers out there?

http://news.com.com/Longhorn+could+b...tml?tag=st.num
The result is that Microsoft is on track to deliver a new version of Windows next year, but it has been unclear about what, exactly, the OS will contain.
huh? Why wouldn't it? I've never heard of an OS not working on any particular machine.
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post #4 of 15
3/30/05 at 12:48pm
Even the Longhorn internal beta isn't out yet, so nobody can test it yet. So far there have only been alpha releases, which don't reflect final performance. Microsoft recommend a 1.86Ghz or faster Pentium-m CPU or 3Ghz Pentium 4 for Longhorn.
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post #5 of 15
3/30/05 at 1:54pm
Even if longhorn is released I don't want it. From what I read it looks like it has a bunch of crap I don't need and is a real memory/resource hog. I'm sure our systems won't have any problems running it if people choose to upgrade, but I really don't see the point right now.
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post #6 of 15
3/30/05 at 1:57pm
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I never said 9300 won't run Longhorn; my question was how well. I think Longhorn will be 64bit, so it would benefit from a 64bit processor...

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huh? Why wouldn't it? I've never heard of an OS not working on any particular machine.
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post #7 of 15
3/30/05 at 1:58pm
I'm just worried about the whole 64bit thing.
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post #8 of 15
3/30/05 at 1:59pm
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Originally Posted by Dragon_Myr
Even if longhorn is released I don't want it. From what I read it looks like it has a bunch of crap I don't need and is a real memory/resource hog. I'm sure our systems won't have any problems running it if people choose to upgrade, but I really don't see the point right now.
Plus Redmond intends on monitoring every little aspect of your life with the new release. Also, is that the ugliest looking desktop that you have ever seen? As well, the first public version won't be using Avalon, nor the new system file datebase so what's the point? It's just XP with a botox injection
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post #9 of 15
3/30/05 at 2:00pm
Have to agree with Dragon on this one, I won't be getting Longhorn till I have absolutely no choice, in fact I only got XP last november (had been using win 2k up till then quite happily) and even then I only got XP because so many people who's computers I repair also have it (it was getting annoying not having a comp with XP to test things on, find settings on etc).
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post #10 of 15
3/30/05 at 2:00pm
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Yeah I was under the impression that Longhorn wouldn't be out until 2007...thus I was a little surprised at the cnet article. Maybe they meant it will be available for beta testing next year..?

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Originally Posted by tentonine
Even the Longhorn internal beta isn't out yet, so nobody can test it yet. So far there have only been alpha releases, which don't reflect final performance. Microsoft recommend a 1.86Ghz or faster Pentium-m CPU or 3Ghz Pentium 4 for Longhorn.
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post #11 of 15
3/30/05 at 2:05pm
Shoman I wouldn't start to worry about 64 bit till there are some actual 64 bit apps to buy

Even after windows 95 came out and finally got people moving to 32 bit, it was at least a year maybe closer to 2 before most apps were available in 32 bit form. I can't see the transition to 64 bit being much faster than that and win XP 64 still isn't even out of beta..
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post #12 of 15
3/30/05 at 2:13pm
Longhorn will be both 32 bit and 64 bit because Intel keeps making 32 bit CPU's. You can't ignore a large segment of the market so both OS's and games will continue to be made in 32 bit for a while to come. Intel's desktop CPU's just recently hit 64 bit and only a year is not enough time for a transition.

What you should be concerned about is what's after Longhorn. By that time your computer will be obsolete anyway.
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post #13 of 15
3/30/05 at 2:43pm
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Originally Posted by Dragon_Myr
Even if longhorn is released I don't want it. From what I read it looks like it has a bunch of crap I don't need and is a real memory/resource hog. I'm sure our systems won't have any problems running it if people choose to upgrade, but I really don't see the point right now.

I still use win 2000, when I have to use windows at all. Most of the time I am on Linux.
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post #14 of 15
3/30/05 at 3:26pm
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Originally Posted by Hiryuu
Shoman I wouldn't start to worry about 64 bit till there are some actual 64 bit apps to buy

Even after windows 95 came out and finally got people moving to 32 bit, it was at least a year maybe closer to 2 before most apps were available in 32 bit form. I can't see the transition to 64 bit being much faster than that and win XP 64 still isn't even out of beta..

Windows XP x64 bits will be available the first half of April 2005.
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post #15 of 15
3/30/05 at 3:27pm
the only game at the moment I know comes with a 64bit executable is UT2004... and is for Linux..
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