Windows Vista also needed more than 1GB and some manufacturers still sold their subpar devices with it. Some things never change.
Windows Vista also needed more than 1GB and some manufacturers still sold their subpar devices with it. Some things never change.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Windows Vista launch was a fucking mess. My office bought a laptop for a coworker in early 2007 that shipped with Vista but didn’t have Vista-compatible drivers for the on-board audio. They had to buy an external USB sound card.
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
That’s hilarious! :D A friend of mine bought a Sony Vaio laptop back then which had a 64bit CPU, but only 32bit drivers. Not even XP, only Vista, so you couldn’t even downgrade.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The thing with Vista was it was it was th3 first really major rebuild of Windows in a long time. Going to 98, ME, XP, etc you had increased minimum specs, but things like drivers and shit generally worked fine, so as long as you had the necessary RAM and processor to run the OS, you could just install the new version and shit would probably work.
So when Vista came along, the manufacturers selling existing models just shipped with the new OS expecting everything to work without testing.
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
True, but it also didn’t help that Microsoft set really low system specs for “Windows Vista Ready”. So we had a lot of computers with an official Vista badge that weren’t really capable of running it well.
The specs to earn that badge were 512MB of RAM and an 800MHz processor, which was absolutely not enough for it.