Planning for Vista

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Howard Kaikow

The following pop to mind planning for Vista:

1. Integrated video might not be very pleasing with Vista.
2. 2GB of memory seems like a good place to start.
3. If a drive has multiple partitions, should they ALL be NTFS?
4. How big should be the partition on which Vista OS will live?
5. If all hard drives are NTFS, then there will not be any way to run
diagnostics from a floppy, so it would seem that there would be no need for
a floppy drive??

What are recommendations for the above?
Any other issues of similar ilk to consider?
 
1. - Agree entirely, especially if you want alpha blending and Windows
Aero - see the recommended display devices to understand the issue.
Microsoft spells it out pretty clearly on the Vista web site.
2. - Agree - specify dual paging RAM
3. - I don't believe there are any sound reasons for using any file system
besides NTFS on a modern Windows computer.
4. - Vista requires 16 GB OS partition. MS recommends 40 GB. Disks are
cheap nowadays: Mirror your drives. I would use RAID-1 on SATA or SAS.
5. - Make sure your new PC has half a dozen USB ports.
6. - Confirm that your new PC can be set to boot from DVD and USB.

-- Dave
 
1. I'm running Vista on three computers here with integrated video. Runs
fine... Aero's even running on the PC with 64MB (32MB system, 32MB shared)
video ram. That's just from an OS / business apps POV. If your business is
editing video or developing games, then, no, integrated video is not the way
to go.
2. Agree
3. Have to agree with Mr. Burns's response... no reason not to run NTFS.
4. If MS recommends 40GB, I'd go with that as a minimum. Absolute minimum.
History has shown that MS's requirements can be a little on the optimistic
side of reality.
5. Might want to get a floppy drive anyway... they're not that expensive and
when you need one and don't have it, it's aggravating. Spoken from personal
experience.

Lang
 
Lang Murphy said:
5. Might want to get a floppy drive anyway... they're not that expensive and
when you need one and don't have it, it's aggravating. Spoken from personal
experience.
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I would agree.

It's been a long time since I've used a floppy drive for other than booting
to run drive diagnostics, and those are darn important.
And there might be a need to load a driver from a floppy.
 
Agree, but if your board supports a USB floppy that would be a good
alternative. Plug it in when you need it. All my drives have been NTFS for
years and I run diagnostics from a floppy periodically when problems develop
requiring pre-windows execution.
 
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