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Windows Vista screencasts
by Jordan Running Jun 13th 2006 at 4:50PM
For those of you who don't want to (or can't) install the Windows Vista beta but want to see it in action, blogger Long Zheng has recorded a series of seven screencasts highlighting some of Vista's flashier new features, in particular the new Aero Glass UI, its new Media Center and search functionality, the much-touted Sidebar with its "gadgets," and the tablet PC experience. Oh, and you also get a peek at Solitaire. One thing's for certain: It's awful pretty.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Peter said 5:22PM on 6-13-2006
It certainly is pretty. I installed the beta on a few machines. When I first heard about all the eye-candy I thought, "Who needs that? It just gets in the way of doing real work." But I must say, when it all comes together like that AND you run it on a machine that is powerful enough so the effects don't slow you down, it is very nice and it does add to the experience.
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a said 5:32PM on 6-13-2006
where is Solitaire? I can't find it. I wonder how good the machine has to be to run this.
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Claudiu Spulber said 7:44AM on 6-14-2006
"I wonder how good the machine has to be to run this."
- 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
- 1 GB of system memory.
- A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero2.
- 128 MB of graphics memory.
- 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
See the details on http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/capable.mspx
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Sidd said 11:41AM on 6-14-2006
the link isn't working for me :-(
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