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Paul's new Windows Longhorn Preview is here with screenshots of the 5xxx build!!!

http://winsupersite.com/showcase/longhorn_preview_2005.asp

Looks like the serch function of Tiger OSX...
Looks good!

After reading the recomendations by microsoft All I can say is wow but I don't take them seriously because they said XP wouldn't run on anything less then a P4 1GZ and they were wrong

It looks too much like a theme, still it should be pretty sweet on the final release build...

With every new build, Longhorn seems to become more alien, when I first use it I assume it'll take a lot of getting used to.

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Originally posted by http://winsupersite.com/showcase/longhorn_preview_2005.asp
Desktop CPU: 3 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor with HyperThreading Technology 530 (or higher) or 3 GHz Intel Xeon processor with 2 MB L2 cache, or AMD Athlon 64, Sempron, or Opteron 100, 200, or 800 processor, single or dual-core versions.

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They won't ask for much will they?

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Originally posted by serpico
ll I can say is wow but I don't take them seriously because they said XP wouldn't run on anything less then a P4 1GZ and they were wrong

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That was an early estimate, but I have XP running on a comp with a 500mhz processor, and it's fine and smooth if you use the apropiet settings, and install it on a clean format of a NTFS hard disk.

Requirements based on the article above:

Here are Microsoft's Longhorn hardware recommendations:

Desktop CPU: 3 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor with HyperThreading Technology 530 (or higher) or 3 GHz Intel Xeon processor with 2 MB L2 cache, or AMD Athlon 64, Sempron, or Opteron 100, 200, or 800 processor, single or dual-core versions.


Mobile CPU: 1.86 GHz Intel Pentium M processor 750 (or higher), or AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology, Mobile Sempron, or Mobile Athlon 64 processor.

RAM: 512 MB of RAM or more, all platforms.


BUT I think that bare minimum despite what microsoft sais may be a 1ghz processor, video card, sound card, 256mb ram (ddr or sdram)

w00t! I can't wait for Longhorn ^_^

I just hope I can get a new processor, even IF my current one will run it

I won't be running it for a while!  A lot of networks are currently happy with Windows 2000/20003 servers and win 2k machines.  And for standard stuff they do the job.  If longhorns released next year I think it'll take it too 2010 to actually make a mark.

ah longhorn. yes it is very nice. they are working very hard on it.
look out for 25th of May when the first beta may be released (these are estimates release may slip to WinHEC 2005).

looks nice..and i love longhorn.. i have it installed now..i love the aerial theme or whatever it was called where the chat windows are black