Windows Vista Capable Machines Coming

Found on Slashdot on Saturday, 01 April 2006
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PC World's Techlog has a short piece talking about the upcoming emergence of 'Windows Vista Capable' PCs." From the article: "The Vista Capable designation doesn't promise that a PC will provide a great Vista experience, or even that it'll support all Vista features or features...just that it'll be able to run Windows Vista Home Basic in some not-very-well-defined-but-apparently-adequate way. At the moment, there are still new PCs on store shelves that don't meet the Vista Capable guidelines--for instance, low-end systems still sport 256MB of RAM in some cases. Wonder if that means that that A) we'll see some cheap systems that still have XP even after Vista ships; or B) the specs on even the cheapest machines will be beefed up; or C) we'll see machines that have Vista preloaded but which don't qualify as Vista capable?

Or D) people will move away from MS to systems which don't use up all resources. All the resources are probably not even used to increase performance, but for gimmicks like an "Aero Glass" interface or build-in DRM support. Only eyecandy or limitations of usage. All the news about Vista didn't raise my interest in it; instead, it's repelling.