Hefty hardware requirements for Windows Vista

Hardware vendors are going to love the news that Windows Vista is going to need very beefy hardware to run well. At Microsoft’s TechEd conference, Dan Warne finally managed to squeeze blood from a stone – or rather, answers about Longhorn’s hardware requirements from Microsoft. Nigel Page is a strategist with Microsoft Australia. He told APC today that Vista would work best on a video card with more than 256MB RAM, 2GB of DDR3 memory and a S-ATA 2 hard drive.

Now, you know requirements are hardcore when everyone reading this would have to upgrade their motherboards in order to use the specified hardware. DDR3 has not even been released yet, nor will be for a while.

Graphics cards with 256MB of memory is an odd one. It seems like they are focusing more on throwing things at the video card memory than the actual system memory. S-ATA 2 hard drives? They must be planning for some hardcore improvements between now and release, because Beta 1 currently runs great on current computers.

Check out the full article at APC Start.