Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Apple, Microsoft
Your PC not Vista-ready? Try a Mac.
by Jordan Running May 24th 2006
Last week Microsoft announced the official hardware requirements for Windows Vista and released an "Upgrade Advisor" tool to tell you how "Vista-ready" your computer is. Ina Fried at the CNet News blog has an interesting anecdote about running the tool on her various machines. The Upgrade Advisor told her that her four-month-old Compaq with 512MB of RAM was not Vista-ready and her laptop would run Vista but not its fancy Aero interface, but the machine that scored the highest was-wait for it-a dual-booting Mac Mini. According to a Microsoft rep the report for the Compaq was likely incorrect (Upgrade Advisor is beta, after all), and the Mini did have twice the RAM, but there's a certain amount of sweet irony in a Mac being more Vista-ready than its PC brethren.
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, ...
