Re: Vista
- From: " Tom Corey" <omtay.oreycay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 9 Jun 2006 07:17:33 -0700
Richard Foersom wrote:
despite that, most people do, eventually, move to the
new version, whatever it is.
Well, not always. Not many people moved to Win ME
This wasn't due to the resource requirements of ME, though, as I
understand it. Rather, it was because ME, well, it sucked.
Whether people will freely move to Win Vista, will probably depend on
how much DRM there is included. MS can force the move by removing the
option for OEMs to sell Win XP.
250 GB is commonplace now, and I suspect that terrabyte drives will
be readily available by the time Vista ships.
250GB harddisk? On a desktop PC maybe but non-existing for notebook
computers.
Yes, I did say laptops would be tighter. Right now 100+ GB laptop
drives are readily available. The OP was worried about 20-40 GB install
size for Vista, but he was merely guessing. Others have chimed in with
more accurate numbers around 13 GB. Plenty of room on even most current
laptops.
As I noted, my 80 GB laptop drive with WinXP, Delphi 5, Delphi 2006,
SQL Server, the entire Office suite, the Java RIM environment, and all
my little extra program is only 1/4 full.
Terabyte drives available when Vista ships?
Wouldn't surprise me in the least. Drive makers have really only just
started playing with perpendicular recording, and already that let them
leap to 750GB drives. You know that they're all gunning for the 1TB
bragging rights.
In any case, my original point stands - worries that Vista will require
too much hard drive space are unfounded.
.
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