[OT] Vista system requirements (Re: Java quick starter)

Lew wrote:

Steve Sobol wrote:
(Note that I have a
sufficiently well-equipped machine to run Vista in the first
place. That means, in the real world, at least 1GB of RAM, and at least 3.0
GHz of CPU clock speed, and preferably you want 2GB and some sort of multi-
core CPU.)

"at least 3.0 GHz of CPU clock speed"?

Virtually no PCs are made at that speed. If Vista depends on that, no wonder
people are having trouble. The machine I bought this year that has Vista
pre-installed by the manufacturer runs at 2.4 GHz. No machine that came with
Vista in that store ran at 3.0 GHz or above clock speed.

From whence get you this number?


Must be a typo.
<http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/get/system-requirements.aspx>

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