Comments on: Longhorn will run on some older PCs too

Microsoft's new version of Windows will run on less-modern PCs--but without many of the bells and whistles.

[Willy Wonker]

This Computer old?

P4 1.4GHz
640 MB RAM
64 MB ATI 9000

I think it might shallow big rock and die.

[sanenazok]

Yes

It's like 1/4 of the speed of modern computers. By the time Longhorn comes out you'll have a dual core computer anyways.

[Willy Wonker]

Turbolinux

LOL, turbocharge OS!

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640MB RAM?

I wonder how you do to your PC to make up this magic number :)

[ordaj]

Bah! Microsoft.

Nothing for sale there. Nothing I'd want to buy, anyway. I want security so as not to be the next identity theft victim.

[taznar]

I second your Bah!

Seems like MS is doing a great job of leading the press, with
story after "big story" about Longhorn hitting the media day-
after-day.

I'm simply burned out on Longhorn stories. Its an OS over a year
away and every time MS toggles a bit, its front-page news.

Yeah, I know. I should shut up and just stop reading the stories.
Unfortunately that's proving as difficult as not looking at the
wreckage when you drive past a crash site.

My new mantra WRT Longhorn : Where's the beef?

[FocusedWolf]

I'd rather it run in all its glory or NOT AT ALL!

Imagine how sad when people goto places like Costco to buy a new computer and its the same hardware thats out now...but it must be new cause it has a longhorn logo.

Bah, you must FORCE vendors to sell high end parts in standard systems or whats the point :P

[CharlesRovira]

Only works in Soviet Union

First you'd have to force consumers (corporations who are watching the bottom line because they're going broke (or claiming to.))

The home market may be more sizable (which I doubt) but the people there don't want to change their machines on a whim because they're going broke too.

Nobody NEEDS Longhorn if it involves expenditure.

We reached the inflection point (or the "genuflecting knee",) about the same time that the dot bomb went off, which may explain why it didn't make the news.

We don't NEED or even want more power. More connectivity? Yes. More power? Why would we need more power to just run a browser?