May 21, 2006 - 23:39
Microsoft is offering a tool to allow you to determine if your pc is up to spec to run Vista.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx
Microsoft defines two levels
Premium Ready PC
1GHz 32- or 64-bit processor, 1GB of memory, 40GB of hard drive capacity with at 15GB free space, a DVD-ROM drive and internet access. In addition the grahics system must have a DirectX 9 graphics chip capable of doing PixelShader 2.0 in hardware, supporting 32-bit colour and having a Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) driver. The GPU also needs access to "adequate" graphics memory: 64MB to 256MB,
Vista Capable PC
800MHz CPU, 512MB of memory and any DirectX 9-capable graphics card.
Sharyn