I've been reading up on Windows Vista for about a couple of weeks, but from what I've read on MSFN is Vista was supposed to run on contemorary high-speed machines. Would my Pentium 3 - 1 Gigahertz Processor compatible with it? Thnx!
(P.S. I really want Windows Vista on my computer since it was "Codename Longhorn", but Longhorn was no-where near compatible with my comp, from what I've read.)

At present Vista is only in the early stage of Beta 1, and it's expected to arrive in late 2006. Conclusion: You will have plenty of time to upgrade your comp until the arrival of Vista.

Vista is supposed to depend more on the graphics card than previous versions of Windows. It will require a card with full DirectX 9 support.
MS states it will run on most new PC:s that you can buy today. It will probably run on your comp, but it will most likely be quite slow.
There is an article on MS TechNet which states some generic specs:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvi...t/hardware.mspx

If you would like to try it yourself you should try to get a beta, either by getting it from MS or borrowing it from a friend who has it.

Hey, why are you doubtful!
Your 1 gigahertz is quite sufficient to run Longhorn/Vista (for today atleast).
Just check that you also have 256 MB of memory.

And download the beta1 and enjoy!

From all thats been said about Vista it would appear it leans more on your graphics card than your CPU - thats what you should be concerned about (but you should still consider upgrading, my best advice would be to get a barebones package including a socket939 +PCIx motherboard - then drop in whatever components you deem economical)

Hey, it runs fine on my P3 600mhz.
And not slow either, about same speed as xp, no Bull!

It run very slow on my P4 3.2 Ghz. I don't know why, I think I have a cheap graphic card

These are the parts that make up my computer:

- ASUS TUV4X Motherboard with P3 1000 Mghz Processor Chip
- NVIDIA Geforce MX 440-SE (64 megabyte)
- Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 (Digital Surround Sound) with two speakers and a subwoofer
- 3Com EtherLink XL 10/100 PCI TX NIC (3C905B-TX) Ethernet Card
- Maxtor 4D040H2 Hard Drive (40 Gig)
- 10 megabyte router/modem with 12 set D-Link Hub (Can't remember the model id)
- stick of 512 megs of ram

@prathapml Thanks, man! I just might try out the beta.

@biohead. Thanks for the info! You just convinced me to get the beta version immediatley !

If anyone can tell me if BETA 1 of Vista expires, that would be absolutley wonderful.

Thank you all for helping me. I really appreciated it!

May I suggest using Nlite to strip out unneeded parts of the OS and disable unneeded services and it should run very well on your machine. As far as the expiration on a beta Yes it will expire But.......

one question, dirt...is nlite compatible with Vista?

nlite is not working with vista and this is what nuhi said

@mitchellovision
I am not sure on my exact graphics chip as it isn't displayed in my device manager, but if you want to look on the internet the laptop is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4320. It was designed fore Windows 2000 so it is pretty old.

If you activate it, I believe it expires after 180 days... If you don't activate it, it expires after 14 days...

Mine works fine on a p3 1Ghz. Faster than i expected it to.
So go ahead and install away!

thanks. I will grab a copy from MSDN downloads. Thank- you all for hrlping me figure this out. I appreciated it very much! You guys are the best.

interesting umm.. i tried to find to get a id sub because i am new this i am trying to get install for window vista.. could anyone help me how it work i cannot find anything i did click download thru msfn or on microsoft sites.. let me know pls asap

Thx

Robert

You have to subscribe to MSDN to get it. I think it is around $1500 for the full MSDN subsciption, and I'm not sure whether the "operating systems" pack even includes vista (about $600).

You can download it from other places but you'll have to find that out for yourself as it is considered Warez!!