Can you run Vista on your current PC?

[slimdog360]

from the system labs site I get this
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/5352/vistacn0.png

You have to be on Windows to use it I think but here is the link anyway, well its a link to the link.
http://help.cnet.com/9602-12576_39-0.html?messageID=2509166&tag=tip-2509166-search

[spamzilla]

LMAO the only things I passed were ont he sound card and directX!

I got the same image outcome as Slimdog did.

I'm sure my PC would pass the test thouugh.

[3rdalbum]

Someone should e-mail Cnet and tell them that it doesn't work in IEs4Linux.

Funnily enough, the website says "Vista is currently not supported" :-)

[Trebuchet]

Can't run it (7 year old system which runs XP just fine); I'll be getting Vista only because I need a new system with better hardware anyway.

[teaker1s]

yes but no vista is crap, tried beta's and they are turds

[chiklit]

I passed.

http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=24930&stc=1&d=1171075423

[slimdog360]

I passed.

http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=24930&stc=1&d=1171075423

I'll swap you computers

[Jerome36]

My results were between Basic and Mainstream. I used the 64bit version Vista Beta 2, back when it was first released, and it ran fine, but I won't be getting Vista until at least the summer, or when the first Service Pack is released. Before I do though I still want to add more memory to my computer. Not because Vista "needs it," but even because doing certain things in Photoshop, or gaming could be much better now, with the added ram.

[Dancingwllamas]

I scored toward the lower end of basic to mainstream, but my system has run the Vista RCs fine.

[steven8]

I scored exactly the same as Slimdog. I would have passed the video card test if my fx 5200 hadn't started conking out on me, and I had to revert to my old geforce 4 mx card. Oh well, I'd sooner have a plague of locusts than vista anyway. :-)

[Rodneyck]

I don't have to run it. I tried Vista on my second hard drive last week and it ran just fine. I quickly formated the hard drive.

I think the question should be rephrased, instead of "can you", it should say "do you want to run Vista on your current PC?"

emmm.... NO!

[Kateikyoushi]

I could run it but had to stop some services to be useable even so found it too slow even comared to XP.
I bet would get a low score, with Intel 855 vga and a Pentium M ULV 1Ghz.
Unfortunately there aren't many choices on the light subnotebook front.

[atarileaf]

I could only run basic apparently. I have an Athlon 64 2800 which is 1.8Ghz, rated at 2.8Ghz and half a gig ram.

Yikes, to be an Enthusiast, it recommends at least an Athlon 4.6GHz or better? I didn't think CPU's existed that clocked that high??? :shock:

[miseljt]

my desktop, Athlon 64 1.8 / 1gb ram, can run Vista, usually, my laptop on the otherhand is out of the question, Pent M 1.4, half gig ram. oh well. guess i have to stick to Ubuntu *shrugs*

[jdhore]

every system i own/use is plenty capable of running Vista (all my systems are at least 2GhZ with 512MB RAM), but instead of going to Vista, (not specifically because of Vista) i decided to go to Linux/Mac OS X full time....and i'm missing 1 or 2 little things, but i really can't complain, and i do still have 3 windows PC's (out of the 10 i own) because Linux and Mac have too many problems on them (one's a SiS graphics card and the sound doesn't like linux for some reason

[Sunflower1970]

I keep meaning to use that site thingy to check this out when I'm on the XP partition of my computer.

I'm pretty sure two out of three of the computers would be able to run Vista, just don't know which version. (Geez, why do they need so many freakin' versions anyway???)

[jdhore]

I keep meaning to use that site thingy to check this out when I'm on the XP partition of my computer.

I'm pretty sure two out of three of the computers would be able to run Vista, just don't know which version. (Geez, why do they need so many freakin' versions anyway???)

i'd bet that about 80% of the people (non-business) who upgrade to Vista only need Home Premium, maybe another 15% for Ultimate and another 5% for one of the other versions