500 MHz machine?

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Michael A. Covington

Vista supposedly wants an 800 MHz CPU... If you try to install it on a 500
MHz system, will it refuse, or will it just run slower?
 
It may run a lot slower than what it should. Previous versions of Windows
didn't do a CPU speed check, I'm not sure about Vista, though. I doubt it,
as it may interfere with SpeedStep laptops.

People are having issues with 3GHz and speed, so 500 may be too slow to
handle for you...

Dustin Harper
 
I successfully installed an early Longhorn (pre Vista) build on a 366 MHz
computer.
It took forever to do anything.
But that was not only the underpowered computer but the early build as well.
I have not tried it since, but if I did, I am certain it would not stay at
all since it would do nothing for testing/evaluations.

800 MHz will be slow as it is.
As to whether it will refuse, it depends on if the writers have that in the
code yet.
 
Michael said:
Vista supposedly wants an 800 MHz CPU... If you try to install it on a 500
MHz system, will it refuse, or will it just run slower?
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Why not try it and tell us? I would suggest that the amount of RAM is
equally important and might compensate, to a certain degree, for missing
CPU speed.

Roy
 
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