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    Notebook and longhorn

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by asaxena11, Jun 3, 2005.

  1. asaxena11

    asaxena11 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi ,
    i am planning to buy a notebook .i use my notebook for office
    purpose too .
    since i know that longhorn will be coming soon.i am curious if the
    current inspirion machine be able to support the Longhorn ,Microsoft
    sites says that the longhorn pc needs to have longhorn supporting
    CPU.what will be the upgrade required ,if any

    so will it be good idea to buy a notebook right now or wait for few
    months
     
    asaxena11, Jun 3, 2005
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  2. RadcomTxx

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    reallly longhorn won't be coming out till end 2006 early 2007, so the specs can still change quite a bit. Generally it seems to say that it will need a fair bit of power. Prolly dedicated graphics will be the best to run it. Longhorn starts out recomending 512 ram. And shared wont' quite cut it. (i don't know about the model that you are saying, i just know these general facts.)
     
    RadcomTxx, Jun 4, 2005
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  3. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    I wouldn't worry about running longhorn on a shared card as long as you have enough memory. I had a beta version running on my old Compaq. It ran fine on the shared card. I doubt Longhorn will run on dedicated cards only. That would leave a sizable portion of the market unable to upgrade. There are people out there who don't need dedicated memory and would not pay extra for it.






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    mikeakajb Notebook Consultant

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    I thought long horn was the new OS that runs in 64 bit... If it is then all the Pent Ms shouldn't be able to support it.

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    mikeakajb, Jun 12, 2005
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  5. lowlymarine

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    Longhorn is going to have full 64-bit capability; however, it should run on 32-bit chips (basically, everything but Turions and Athlon 64s right now), just without the added efficiency. It will also feature full dual-core processor support, for the new Athlon 64 x2s and Pentium-Ds.

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  6. DMB14

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    I ran Longhorn on an old computer with 178mb RAM (although not that quickly). Don't worry about having shared RAM.

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    DMB14, Jun 13, 2005
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