Longhorn's bloated requirements
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brianleahy
Colonel Panic
Why on earth would anything ever require "1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port **AND** an 802.11g wireless link" ??
thisbechuck
Mac-ing
Funny, I was just reading in Reuters today about how Loghorn "failed to respond when Allchin also tried to bring up another graphics-intensive application, the popular first person shooter game Quake" at WinHEC. They claimed that the machiene, which I'm sure was top of the top of the line dual processor PC, was too "slow". Heh. Funny. 
JetwingX
iWork for Apple <3
Yes! i have seen clips! funny ^^
soulseek, it's not your job to worry about where the threads go. Like I mentioned to you, just report to an administrator that it is out of place (and they will deal with it). I personally find it annoying that in the middle of a thread i see "this doesn't belong here" and it gets the thread off topic. I remember when I was new I did that and people got really annoyed with me. So I am asking if you could please stop.
soulseek, it's not your job to worry about where the threads go. Like I mentioned to you, just report to an administrator that it is out of place (and they will deal with it). I personally find it annoying that in the middle of a thread i see "this doesn't belong here" and it gets the thread off topic. I remember when I was new I did that and people got really annoyed with me. So I am asking if you could please stop.
dlloyd said:Yeah, I was reading that. Anyone else remember the Windoze 98 demo crash?
I used to have a fairly good video of that, just can't figure out where it is now. Probably on one of the many backup CDs I've made (maybe one day I'll get around to looking those over).
The more and more I hear about M$'s fairy tale called Longhorn, the more I laugh. It wouldn't surprise me if the specs for Longhorn were quite high, maybe not that high, but let's wait and see if they can even deliver before 2006/2007. I'm doubtful about that.
U Ol' boys might be interested in this thread... The guys there are talking and hacking the leaked 4074 build, and have enabled some of the DCE effects - Here's a screen-shot from what I thought was the best looking shot. There's many there between all the pages that show Window Animation caps etc etc...
Forum:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=164156&st=0
Forum:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=164156&st=0
A recent eWeek article mentioned that Longhorn was a little sluggish with Avalon DWM and a current video card. They felt it needed optimization to run with less expensive video hardware.
I'm not sure why MS keeps making the Windows interface elements consume lots of pixel space. There is entirely too much white space around everything.
It's interesting to note that every release of OS X seems to run better on existing Mac hardware, whereas Windows seems to require more and more.
I'm not sure why MS keeps making the Windows interface elements consume lots of pixel space. There is entirely too much white space around everything.
It's interesting to note that every release of OS X seems to run better on existing Mac hardware, whereas Windows seems to require more and more.
dlloyd, you know much about the underpinnings to Longhorn?
I couldn't tell you exactly why its better, but you obviously realize that Longhorn is 3d hardware accelated now, right?
I read that there can be animated icons or something... I'll have to find out.. hmm, personally it doesn't look all that hot really, certainly not to someone used to Aqua...
I couldn't tell you exactly why its better, but you obviously realize that Longhorn is 3d hardware accelated now, right?
I read that there can be animated icons or something... I'll have to find out.. hmm, personally it doesn't look all that hot really, certainly not to someone used to Aqua...