Here's a bit on MS new longhorn OS
 

Hope this is not a repost.

Windows Watch

Cliff notes:

Dual-core CPU running at 4-6 GHz
min. 2GB RAM
up to 1TB of disk
1Gb enet
802.11g
and a graphics processor 3x faster than anything on the market
today.


Looks like the compaq's i played on over the weekend with the AMD 64 bit processor are gonna be dog shit! :)

That's plain silly. Those, thankfully, wont be the min sys requirements... but damn...

Home users really don't need that kind of processing power or storage. I think Microsoft is blowing wind up people's asses to make their overdue OS seem more impressive.

:chuckles: and I like how they're starting to openly codename their features like Apple.

Oh well... I welcome the new DRM that Windows will have on it... it will hopefully cause a mass exodus to other platforms amongst the computer knowledgeable.

yeah, thats what i was thinking...

anyway...i really dont think it will do well with home PC users, seeing as not many of them will need 4-6 GHz of processor...but the 1 terabyte of storage >me :D

i think they said that about the pentiums before they came out. :p

watch? as in bigbrother?? :nervous:

Yea they did. What i think it by the time that the actaully release this OS, things will be just under those specs, so all the top of the line stuff will be that. I mean who every thought people would have 1 or 2 gigs of ram, and 500 gigs of HD storage? Files keep getting bigger, and processors keep getting faster.