Well, maybe it not your laptop problem. Better wait for an actual win vista. Now is beta2 version or what. It's in beta status, cos' sure got problem

Hope so. I don't wish to have flickering boot screen when the real vista is out. Maybe by time vista is officially launched, my laptop is not powerful enough. Btw, I heard that beta 2 is coming out on May 22.

Hmm... the installation file need 6Gb? I heard it from my frie. He install vista. Well, it need a powerful machine for that latest os. It release in next year right?

It's 8.5 GB after installing MSN Messenger and MS Office. However there's lots of unneeded files installled in these beta software. Hopefully it will not take up so much space when Vista goes RTM.

6GB? it's almost twice compared to XP. how long does it take to install.

viiv is a platform for home entertinment multimedia centre

hmm....... what the min requirement for this win vista...?

for this viiv platform, the better match is win xp media centre.....

but actually no need to follow the hardware requirement, u can made ur own media center by ur own......

is ur pc ready for vista?
http://windowsvista.com/getready

It's pretty pathetic that we've to do so many preparations just to make sure we can run Vista. And the requirement to me is a bit unnecessarily high if compare to most of the Linux OS. (and I doubt much of the laptops in the market today can really run vista smoothly)

But M$ is the market leader so even if we're customers we can do nothing but to upgrade our rigs or throw away obsolete rigs just to use their new product.

Beta 2 Technical Preview 5384 are up in Microsoft Connect. Downloading.....

I dont want to simply download and install junk into my computers so I cant use the Beta Advisor but for those of you who have already done it, can you tell me what's the min requirement for Vista? Thanks man.

You can read some clues here in these two sites
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/capable.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getr...quirements.mspx

I've run the test for Vista Ultimate on my IBM Thinkpad laptop, and it says "Congratulations! Your PC can run the core experiences of Windows Vista."

But for Aero Experience, "A WDDM driver is required. Your graphics card does not support this."

Windows Vista Beta 2 related links:

NVidia's nForce drivers and Forceware drivers
ATI's Catalyst drivers
Paul Thurrott's preliminary Beta 2 review along with a bunch of images
PCMag's collection of screenshots
CNet has a senior editor playing around with Beta 2 in a short video

It looks cool. But the requirement is too high formy laptop.

no really, windows 98 took almost 700 plus mb to install, windows xp took around 2gigs or so but i dont understand, vista needs 15gigs of free space?


what the hell is wrong with msoft?
its either its too bloated up or something is really wrong

No wrong. It need many space. Vista actually imitate many feature of MAC os. Mac os is quite huge compare to win xp or 98. Vista got lots of animated interface, maybe that why need so much space

the 15gb requirement is crazy. thats not including other application like office, etc...

i think u guys make so mistake la! my frie install vista beta just 6Gb le! How come 15gb

maybe the beta2 got adding some stuff. Kinda weird. 15GB

This post has been edited by allvin: May 24 2006, 03:34 PM

I only required 8GB for 5381.

I think he meant this site

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getr...quirements.mspx

See for yourself. YA! i know the beta is 6-8Gb. Kinda weird, why the requirement in that site is 15GB freespace