Re: Vista
- From: " Tom Corey" <omtay.oreycay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 8 Jun 2006 14:19:55 -0700
rhys sage wrote:
I cannot imagine many people will be willing to spend the kind of
diskspace that Vista will demand. I imagine 4.4GB will blow up to
around 20 - 40 GB when it's installed.
I've heard variations on that theme every time a new version of Windows
is released. Sometimes it's the drive space, sometimes the CPU,
sometimes the RAM. Yet despite that, most people do, eventually, move
to the new version, whatever it is.
20 to 40 GB is a big chunk of drive space (do you have any firm
estimates, or are you jsut guessing?), but on a new system an 80 GB
drive is the low end of the spectrum. 250 GB is commonplace now, and I
suspect that terrabyte drives will be readily available by the time
Vista ships.
Will there be enough room on the average laptop for Vista and Delphi?
Or for that matter, Vista itself? My laptop has a 40GB drive and I
cannot imagine Vista running on it - even though it is 64bit!
Laptops will indeed be a bit tighter, but even so I think you're
over-estimating the impact. The laptop I'm on right now has an 80 GB
drive (which I would consider a minimum system). With WinXP, Delphi 5,
Delphi 2006, and the Java RIM environment, I'm still only using 20GB.
.
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