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    Nervous to buy anything right now...

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by RiCEADDiCTBOY, Jan 19, 2008.

  1. RiCEADDiCTBOY

    RiCEADDiCTBOY Notebook Consultant

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    RiCEADDiCTBOY, Jan 19, 2008
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    LOL, if theres a vista sucessor coming out, then everyone would just then downgrade to vista like what happen to xp. lol
     
    nonamelol, Jan 19, 2008
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    yaddam205 Notebook Enthusiast

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    The new OS will be designed pretty much for vista machines. It looks as though it will have very similar requirements as XP did with "MinWin"
     
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    i'm nervous to purchase my Sony Vaio FZ4000 and I can't run Windows 7 properly....
     
    RiCEADDiCTBOY, Jan 19, 2008
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    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    Don't worry. Are you really going to put of buying your FZ just for Windows 7? What about me? I am buying a notebook in spring-summer 2009 right before it comes out. Windows 7 is supposedly going to be easier on systems than Vista. If I can run Vista on a Pentium 4, you will be able to run Windows 7 on a 45nm penryn.
     
    Jayayess1190, Jan 19, 2008
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    In 2-3 years you'll probably be ready for a new computer. You cannot hesitate on buying something that you want/need right now just because you're afraid it won't be powerful enough. Technology changes all the time. During the XP days, were you worrying about not being able to run Vista? I sure was not.
     
    Sponsi, Jan 20, 2008
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    what do people do with their old laptops? hmm?

    so should i wait till 2009 to buy a laptop too???
     
    RiCEADDiCTBOY, Jan 20, 2008
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    Rahul Notebook Prophet

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    Why would Microsoft make very high requirements for the next OS to cut off sales and income?

    The worst that would happen is you may not be able to turn on all the eye candy like Vista's Aero interface. But even then, Vista was officially launched Jan 07, the very least you need to run Aero is technically the Intel GMA 900 which came out in notebooks Jan 05.

    When I mean technically, thats because the GMA 900 can run Aero on the Vista
    betas but not final version because Intel wouldn't release the drivers for it (to the anger of many, look on Google). So offically, the minimum is GMA 950.

    Your notebook WILL be able to run Windows 7, the worst is you won't be able to turn up all the effects but that I doubt as well. Don't sweat it.
     
    Rahul, Jan 20, 2008
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    dznutz Notebook Consultant

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    don't worry about it. although the new os will have more bells and whistles to play with the older os will be more stable after patches and service packs
     
    dznutz, Jan 20, 2008
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