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Whilst driving to work this morning, I heard a piece on Slashdot Review<\/a> about how 50% of PCs will be prevented from running Windows Vista<\/a>, citing problems with graphics capabilities and the Aero interface. Wrong. The operating system will run – just it will be without some of the new graphical features. I’m running the December CTP (build 5270) on a 2 year old 1.5GHz Pentium 4 Mobile notebook PC with 256MB of RAM. Granted, it’s not what you might call fast (a bit more RAM would fix that), but it runs. Whilst I may not have the Aero “glass” eye-candy, Vista is there, along with all its other features. If, however, I want high-end graphics, then I’ll have to upgrade my machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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