Minimum configuration requirements for installing Vista systems

Specifically, to meet the operational requirements of the Windows Vista Premium ready system, you need to have a 1GHz x86 or x86-64 processor, at least 1GB memory, to fully experience Vista's Aero Glass user interface, and to support WDDM ( Windows Display Driver Model Technology's DirectX 9-level video card. Microsoft further describes the hardware requirements for running the Aero Glass user interface:

Hardware Support Pixel Shader 2.0

32 bits per pixel

64MB video Memory supports single display of less than 1,310,720 pixels (equivalent to 1280x1024 resolution)

128MB video memory supports single display between 1,310,720 and 2,304,000 pixels (equivalent to a 1920x1200 resolution)

256MB video Memory supports single display above 2,304,000 pixels

Meet memory bandwidth requirements according to Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor (Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor) Program assessment

Dell, Gateway, Lenovo and Toshiba all Express high support for Windows Vista and are committed to providing consumers with powerful Windows Vista Premium ready PCs. John Medica, senior vice president of Dell's product division, said, "Dell's effort to build a system that will enhance the performance of Vista, we work closely with Microsoft to launch the desktop, workstations and notebooks provide a good user experience, And the user is fully confident that Dell's high-performance configuration delivers Vista's power to its fullest. ”

To find out if your machine has an existing configuration to run Vista users, you can visit Microsoft's Windows Vista Get Ready website (click in), and then run Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor. To remind you, this is only Microsoft's minimum configuration recommendation for running Vista operating systems. Other insiders believe that the 2.0GHz processor and 2GB memory are the best configurations to run Vista.

To allow future desktops and laptops to run the next generation of Windows Vista operating system more smoothly, Microsoft combined with Intel, AMD, ATI, and Nvidia offers a recommended configuration for Vista systems: