How Much Will A Vista PC Cost You

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How Much Will A Vista PC Cost You?

By: Nathan Weinberg
2006-09-01

Mary Jo Foley has an article about how businesses are worried how much Windows Vista is going to call them.

Link: Mary Jo Foley has an article

Frankly, the enterprise user she talks to sounds like a moron, assuming that Vista requires unbelievably powerful hardware that doesn't exist:

MR. Biz: vista will NEVER run on a $1000 PC

MR. Biz: EVER

MR. Biz: maybe a $1500 PC, but that one doesn't exist Yet

MR. Biz: there aren't cheap dual cores yet

MR. Biz: price point is still around $2000

What a maroon. Vista Business Edition has the same hardware requirements as Vista Home Basic, since you don't need fancy Aero graphics in a business environment (something he assumes is a requirement). That means Vista Business can run on:

800 MHz processors

512 Megabytes of RAM

A GPU capable of DirectX 9

That's it, bub. Dell's cheapest computer, the Dimension B110, can meet all those requirements for about $450, and gets the Vista Capable sticker under $400 (for some reason). So don't tell me that your company needs to spend upwards of $2000 for Vista; there isn't a system you can buy that can't handle a business upgrade for Vista.

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