I do NOT want Vista anywhere near a portable, unless it's crippled to the level of XP or below. Why, you may ask? Let's see...
1. Battery life. Mobiles already run down too quick due to too many eye candy features. Vista only adds to the life-sucking unnecessary eye candy, and given how they have been toting these things as "Media-centric" you know it's going to have a lot of graphics baggage.
2. Price. To run Vista well on these things, they're going to have to have more powerful components than the current ones do (which BARELY meet Vista's minimums on CPU, RAM, and hard drive) and will almost be required to start including a GPU instead of integrated crap. Obviously this will jack the price, and will also make my #1 reason even worse - I'm thinking 1 hour/charge would be GOOD.
3. Crippled. IF they got all that stuff crammed into the case and cheap enough, it would be cool to have Hi-Def outs on the thing so it could be a forward-compatible media source. Unfortunately, MS caved to Hollywood, and any HD content would be downsampled to standard def (if you're lucky) or not displayed at all.
4. Encrypted, proprietary content. I will accept no DRM in things I _BUY_ and _OWN_. For those who do, this should still be a concern - DRM schemes keep getting more complex to stay ahead of the crackers in a sort of arms race. This means that they're harder to DEcrypt to play as well, and consequently will use more of your CPU/GPU to play them back. Which, again, makes the battery life even shorter
I could go on, but why? Vista on a portable device is unnecessary (if none of the features are used, why not XP?) or really bad ($$$ and battery life of crap).
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Josh Warner @ May 24th 2006 5:16PM
I do NOT want Vista anywhere near a portable, unless it's crippled to the level of XP or below. Why, you may ask? Let's see...
1. Battery life. Mobiles already run down too quick due to too many eye candy features. Vista only adds to the life-sucking unnecessary eye candy, and given how they have been toting these things as "Media-centric" you know it's going to have a lot of graphics baggage.
2. Price. To run Vista well on these things, they're going to have to have more powerful components than the current ones do (which BARELY meet Vista's minimums on CPU, RAM, and hard drive) and will almost be required to start including a GPU instead of integrated crap. Obviously this will jack the price, and will also make my #1 reason even worse - I'm thinking 1 hour/charge would be GOOD.
3. Crippled. IF they got all that stuff crammed into the case and cheap enough, it would be cool to have Hi-Def outs on the thing so it could be a forward-compatible media source. Unfortunately, MS caved to Hollywood, and any HD content would be downsampled to standard def (if you're lucky) or not displayed at all.
4. Encrypted, proprietary content. I will accept no DRM in things I _BUY_ and _OWN_. For those who do, this should still be a concern - DRM schemes keep getting more complex to stay ahead of the crackers in a sort of arms race. This means that they're harder to DEcrypt to play as well, and consequently will use more of your CPU/GPU to play them back. Which, again, makes the battery life even shorter
I could go on, but why? Vista on a portable device is unnecessary (if none of the features are used, why not XP?) or really bad ($$$ and battery life of crap).