A REVIEWER at
Cnet has taken a peek under the bonnet of the latest beta of Microsoft Vista but there's little there to help you plan your future hardware buys.
The report, which you can find
here, mentions stuff like Windows "Defender", "Bitlocker" drive encryption and "device driver locking" and "Superfetch" which throws the most commonly used apps into memory.
As we expect Intel and AMD to roll out all sorts of super duper microprocessors early in the new year, all we can hope is that their cores can cope with the Microsoft marketing terms and run them in a remote area of your hard drive.
Of course, all the hardware companies are already well aware of the future shape of Vista, and no doubt have pegged their reputations on Microsoft getting it right, but that shouldn't stop buyers from asking some difficult questions from their suppliers.
Those might include: "I understand that this machine I am just about to buy has got the Vista Ready logo on it. Before I pay $2,000 for this lovely Intel Core notebook, would you care to tell me just how Vista Ready it will be?"
Or: "Should I wait another nine months before buying a new machine as I understand from hated rag the INQ that Intel has a flashy new Merom chip coming that will run things better than now." Or: "Can I get this lovely AMD Turion 64 notebook with Windows 95, as I understand no one is writing viruses to attack that platform any more?"
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