Things to Think before Upgrading to Windows Vista
From all the reviews and screenshot on Windwos Vista seen from the bloggers and magazines or news, it indeed would drive ones to rush to the nearest outlets to purchase. But before you do so, few things to bear in mind, beside the couple of cash u gonna spend on the well-designed Vista pack, there are some few hidden cost that you might need to be aware of.
Hardware
The suggest RAM to run a Windows Vista OS is suggested to be 512 MB, but that’s only the minimum and I don’t think that you will be satisfied with the outcome and eventuallu you will end up getting to your nearest outlets for another piece of RAM, maybe 2 piece of 1GB RAM to make it 2GB RAM well have the OS to be well performed.
After settling the RAM issue, now is the most important and the most concerned part for the Windows Vista OS, the graphic card. If you are to use Vista OS, of course you wouln’t yourself not being able to experience the Aero environment, and in order to have this Aero environment enable, you’ll need a very good graphic card, which supports DirectX 9 graphics with a WDDM driver, a minimum of 128MB of graphics memory, and Pixel Shader 2.0 and 32 bits per pixel (pixel shader would only be the recommendation)
A DVD-rom is compulsary because Vista only install through DVD, not anything else. But this wouldn’t be much problem as i believe most of the PC out there does has a DVD-rom installed. If you doesn’t has one, it wouln’t cost much.
Now is the harddisk, where you need a least a 40GB capacity, with 15GB of free disk space. This is another not big issue because nowadays harddisk comes with the capacity of at least 80GB, and it doesn’t cost that much either.
Vista + RAM + graphic card + DVD-rom + HD, the cost of it you count it
Time Consumed
This would pretty much depends on individual, asides from the time used to install Vista into your PC, hardware configuration would take you a bit of time as graphics card upgrades can sometimes be tricky (if you know what i mean). Software installation would no doubt be a pain in the ass, not all software are supported by Vista, but if you are using the standard software it wouldn’t give you any trouble of course, so is suggested to read through the Vista Sofware Compatibility List before installing. Exploring around Vista after installation and get yourself use to it is also appears as another time consuming thing to do for certain range of people.
No of course I am not an anti-microsoft or anti-vista, just an advice to think twice before you start installing Vista into your PC so that it won’t affect your daily activities with your PC
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