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Re: Will you upgrade hardware for Vista?

Quote originally posted by proliant_fan ...
Is it me or are OSes getting slower?
My 20mhz Windows 3.11 machine still works. I can do inyernet, email, networking, office, accounts and music all from it still and ity only has 10mb of RAM. I think windows needs to be rewritten from scratch.
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WOW!!! That is amazing. Never heard of anybody still using windows 3.11
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Well i keep getting ancient comouters from schoole etc (im 16). I have 10 of them and 3 of my own setup as:

NETWORK A

1x NT 3.51 Server (50mhz, 16mb ram)
1x Win 3.11 (20mhz, 10mb ram)

WORKGROUP B

1x NT4 Server (233mhz, 64mb RAM
2xNT4 Workstation (166mhz, 32mb RAM)
1x Win 95 ( 166mhz, 32mb Ram)

WORKGROUP C

1x Win2k Server (1 ghz, 256mb ram)
2x Win 2K workstation (700mhz, 128mb ram)
1x Win 98 (166mhz, 128mb RAM)

WORKGROUP D

1x Win 2003 Sever (2 ghz, 1gb ram)
1x XP Home (1 ghz, 512mb ram
1x XP Pro (3 ghz, 1gb ram)

I am retiring A in the next 3 months, B within 6 and C within 12 and hope to upgrade the XP PR0 to Vista. Is there a server upgrade of vista coming out so i can upgrade 2003 and should i get it as it cost a fiortune before
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Re: Will you upgrade hardware for Vista?

maybe, but dought it
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Re: Will you upgrade hardware for Vista?

there had better be cos it cost me like 700 when new for the full win 2003 disc and licences and i only earn like £30 a week

Isnt VISTA based on 2003 server code anyways?
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Re: Will you upgrade hardware for Vista?

yes, but only ram and processor
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Re: Will you upgrade hardware for Vista?

Quote originally posted by proliant_fan ...
Well i keep getting ancient comouters from schoole etc (im 16). I have 10 of them and 3 of my own setup as:

NETWORK A

1x NT 3.51 Server (50mhz, 16mb ram)
1x Win 3.11 (20mhz, 10mb ram)

WORKGROUP B

1x NT4 Server (233mhz, 64mb RAM
2xNT4 Workstation (166mhz, 32mb RAM)
1x Win 95 ( 166mhz, 32mb Ram)

WORKGROUP C

1x Win2k Server (1 ghz, 256mb ram)
2x Win 2K workstation (700mhz, 128mb ram)
1x Win 98 (166mhz, 128mb RAM)

WORKGROUP D

1x Win 2003 Sever (2 ghz, 1gb ram)
1x XP Home (1 ghz, 512mb ram
1x XP Pro (3 ghz, 1gb ram)

I am retiring A in the next 3 months, B within 6 and C within 12 and hope to upgrade the XP PR0 to Vista. Is there a server upgrade of vista coming out so i can upgrade 2003 and should i get it as it cost a fiortune before
how do you get them from your school, i would like to try this.
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Re: Will you upgrade hardware for Vista?

School were throwing away some old 95/98/NT/2k RM machines and the Proliant in order to get some new win2k ones and a few XP

Workgroup B and C are entirely these machines. Workgroup A is from car boot sles and D is mine
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Re: Will you upgrade hardware for Vista?

My current PC runs Vista just fine. At least, it has run every one of the betas I've installed on it.

But, incidentally, I will be building a new PC that will run Vista. It's not just because of Vista's coming out, it's just my regular upgrade cycle. I plan to start with these components:
  • Athlon64 x2 4200
  • 2x1GB PC3200 Dual channel
  • 1.25TB of disk space (1x250GB primary boot volume, 3x500GB in RAID5 storage)
  • 1xNVIDIA 7900GS, to add a second one in the future.

It's going to be a pretty tough machine-- I think it will be up to the task of choking on Vista
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Hmm, I WOULD upgrade, if only I could on me laptop...
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Re: Will you upgrade hardware for Vista?

is there anything i can do on vista that i can't in my current OS?

can vista do this?
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