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Story: Government agency tells schools to shun Vista

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Hardware requirements

We also have a case of hardware prerequisites. Even with half the Aero effects off, it is still far more consumptive or resources than XP is, and many schools are still running on pretty old hardware. Say your average user is going to need to have the OS, a couple of office apps, a CAD app of some kind and various bits of security background processes running, you wouldn't really want to touch this without 512 MB RAM per workstation, and ideally 1 GB.

A number of schools I know of still have original P-4 machines with about 128 MB (and in some cases 256 MB) of RAM. This is not the time for those to upgrade IMHO.

- Graham

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