Vista beta open to all and sundry

[john]

I got a 4 on a HP DC5100 MT PC! 2.66 P4, 512mb ram, 40gb hard drive, onboard intel graphics! I think thats a bug, so its bugged to them, but that seemed impressive compaired to yours. I aint tried my main rig yet.....

[russdev]

going on spare laptop at work on tuesday to play around with...

 

russ

[ITWombat]

Just installed it on my home PC with dual boot as I thought Virtual PC might suck..

 

LMAO Understatement of the year m8!!!

[flyinghaggis]

I'm pretty impressed with it overall. There's nothing groundbreaking but plenty of solid UI improvements and a lot of the built in applications are much more fully featured (ie cutting movies,pics to DVD,etc). The file seach utility is now much more useful and way faster than XP.

I ran it on my P4 2GHZ, 1Gb RAM, 256Mb GF6600 and got a system rating of 3. As other people have said it's pretty slow at the moment though hopefully it'll improve. It's also worryingly quick to swallow up the GB of RAM all to itself after only launching a couple of apps like IE and media player.

I think the biggest improvement will be that fact that apps need to be designed to run without admin priviledges (should help us lot in schools out no end) and that when the move too 64-bit happens all of the drivers will need to be signed by MS which should make the stability and deployment of hardware an easier task for us aswell.

I've been looking at buying a new PC but Vista's convinced me to wait another 6 months until it's released 8)

[tarquel]

[[[ Bear in mind all that the public beta offer is now closed and that the beta does run out after a certain time - cant remember offhand, but its probably on the website ]]]

 

Cheers

Nath