Vista on a 512MB system

[Sagalout]

Went round this afternoon and turned off indexing and set it back to classic view - speeded up slightly, but I'm not impressed with it. And to top it off her Lexmark printer wont work with Vista so she has to buy a new printer now too. If it was running XP the spec would be fine - literally this is used for browsing the web and typing letters in MS word. I'm tempted to chuck a dodgy copy of XP on it - at least it would run quickly and the printer would work.

I have no idea where the Vista system requirements are going for the 'average' user - seems like a con to get people to upgrade perfectly good hardware. Its even more of a system hog than my Powerbook, which i despise for similar reasons!

 

[TheVoice]

I have no idea where the Vista system requirements are going for the 'average' user - seems like a con to get people to upgrade perfectly good hardware.

That 'perfectly good' hardware is in relation to a 6 year old Operating System though. It's Acer's fault for selling a system that isn't capable of running Vista properly.

 

[bledd]

making it very likely the hard drive will have a much SHORTER life due to constant reading and writing from the cpu

there's no data to back that up

google did a massive hard drive test, testing low usage, no usage, high usage using thousands of drives and there was no pattern in the failure rates

 

[Duke]

512MB with Vista is pretty dire. Bung another 512MB stick in there, or ideally a 1GB stick.