madodel wrote:
> On 10/14/06 Ed Durrant wrote:
>> I wouldn't say Dell is "Junk", but their cheaper models
are not the 
>> absolute latest technology. The T series Thinkpads have a titainium 
>> case 
>> which is both strong and light - this costs extra money. The Thinkpad 
>> has hardware security features that the DELL may not have. The target 
>> for the Thinkpad is corporate enterprises, DELL targets the home and 
>> smaller business users.
>>
>> What I would say, if you need to run Windoze on the system is wait if 
>> you can. Once Vista is released, two things will happen;
>>
>> 1. all computer hardware will have higher performance specifications, 
>> especially in the video area as they will have to, to be able to run 
>> Vista (even the lower level versions of Vista need a more powerful 
>> system with more memory and larger disk than XP does).
>>
>> and 2. The systems for sale with XP installed will drop dramatically 
>> in 
>> price to clear the stock as the market will want systems with Vista
>> installed.
> 
> And from what I have read the basic versions of Vista will not be allowed 
> by license to be run in a VM, assuming one has a VM with the resources to 
> run such a gargantuan bloated pig.  I think this may finally lead to a 
> distinct break for all the many people who run multiple OSs as m$ will most 
> assuredly break any boot manager other than their own as well.  That will 
> make it very difficult to run multiple platforms on one system.   They are 
> going for the jugular.  Hopefully they end up slicing their own.
> 
> Mark
> 

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 is planned to have support for Vista. The main 
problem at the moment with running Vista - I have downloaded and tried 
to install the 2 point something gigabytes of RC1, is ACPI - if a system 
(or a virtual system) doesn't have ACPI support it simply cannot install.

I would expect VMWare to add support to their range of products if they 
don't already have it (I think Virtual Infrastructure 3 (aka ESX v3) may 
already be able to run Vista). The other virtualisation companies will 
have to follow suit.

Of course if one has a no-longer supported product, such as 
Connectix/Innotek's Virtual PC/2, it wont get an update and hence wont 
be able to run MS Vista ..... At least not the "normal" versions of 
Vista. As they did with XP, MS intend to have a controlled release of a 
very cutdown version of Vista for use in third world countries to run on 
older, lower powered hardware. This probably won't have the ACPI and 
other hardware requirements of the "normal" versions but will still use 
Vista drivers and be able to run most applications - only those 
requiring flashy graphics probably won't work.

This version (in either XP or Vista version), would make an ideal client 
to run under virtualisation on a different OS, however Microsoft only 
intend to make this available in India, Africa and China I believe. The 
African version being in US English.


Cheers/2

Ed.


 
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