Crazy Specification
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I just seen the RECOMMENDED requirements for VisualStdio .Net beta one: 256mb Ram 700mhz Processor ... and I reckon you'll need a 19" monitor (lots of real estate needed). Whats every one using out there... I'm on a 550mhz 128bm Ram 17" Monitor The vicious software -> hardware circle starts again. Also how is the .Net runtimes going to get redistrubuted to the a clients PC, and what will have to be the Clients PC spec. Regards Norm
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I just seen the RECOMMENDED requirements for VisualStdio .Net beta one: 256mb Ram 700mhz Processor ... and I reckon you'll need a 19" monitor (lots of real estate needed). Whats every one using out there... I'm on a 550mhz 128bm Ram 17" Monitor The vicious software -> hardware circle starts again. Also how is the .Net runtimes going to get redistrubuted to the a clients PC, and what will have to be the Clients PC spec. Regards Norm
This is a little crazy - especially since the preview version (which you assume is all bloated and unoptimised) runs fine on any decent (>300MHz) machine. Certainly my celeron 300 w/128Mb (and tiny 17" screen :)) handles it admirably. It's always nice to have more real estate, but it's easy to configure all the docking windows so that only the important ones are visible as you switch between different languages, so it's not as bad as some of the screen shots make it seem :) Dealing with IIS5 and ASP 3 is getting me really, REALLY keen to get my hands on a release version of .NET. IIS is a PITA! cheers, Chris Maunder
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I just seen the RECOMMENDED requirements for VisualStdio .Net beta one: 256mb Ram 700mhz Processor ... and I reckon you'll need a 19" monitor (lots of real estate needed). Whats every one using out there... I'm on a 550mhz 128bm Ram 17" Monitor The vicious software -> hardware circle starts again. Also how is the .Net runtimes going to get redistrubuted to the a clients PC, and what will have to be the Clients PC spec. Regards Norm
I have an Athalon 550 MHz, with 356MB RAM and a 19". It's always too slow, it always run out of memory, and I can never see everything I want on screen. Until my machine can predict what I want, respond in the absolute blink of an eye, never run out of memory, and have at least a wall size display, I think this will always be the norm. We are a society of extremely high expections of our gadgets. Unfortunately, the bulk of the software out there (read MicroSoft) will always keep up with the fast & better machines to make sure they don't really work any better than the current offering. And pity the fool who can't upgrade. Unfortunately, the honet programmers who truely want to write compact and efficient code will be left behind in favor of bloated code that gets there first. Most users would rather have the newest, coolest features, today, even if they require another 50MB of diskspace. Rather than wait even a couple of months for the smaller, faster equivalent. That's just a fact of our short attention span society. I remember my first 10MB hard drive. All that space. What to do with it all, what to do... And that neat 1.2MB 5 1/4 disk upgrade. My how times change... Dominic
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I just seen the RECOMMENDED requirements for VisualStdio .Net beta one: 256mb Ram 700mhz Processor ... and I reckon you'll need a 19" monitor (lots of real estate needed). Whats every one using out there... I'm on a 550mhz 128bm Ram 17" Monitor The vicious software -> hardware circle starts again. Also how is the .Net runtimes going to get redistrubuted to the a clients PC, and what will have to be the Clients PC spec. Regards Norm
Norm, Microsoft has said that the requirements for the beta are much much higher than they will be for the shipping version. To my knowledge they haven't actually stated what the final target is for minimum requirements, and the pessimist in me thinks they won't squeeze it into anything too tiny. :) Hey, it's still a year (or more) away from release according to a recent review by Gartner and in that time I'm sure that 700mhz and 256mb of Ram will be the standard config for CE devices, let alone your desktop ...
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I just seen the RECOMMENDED requirements for VisualStdio .Net beta one: 256mb Ram 700mhz Processor ... and I reckon you'll need a 19" monitor (lots of real estate needed). Whats every one using out there... I'm on a 550mhz 128bm Ram 17" Monitor The vicious software -> hardware circle starts again. Also how is the .Net runtimes going to get redistrubuted to the a clients PC, and what will have to be the Clients PC spec. Regards Norm
Besides, most of us will need to upgrade anyway when Doom 3 hits the shelves ;) Matt
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Besides, most of us will need to upgrade anyway when Doom 3 hits the shelves ;) Matt
They are making a Doom 3??
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They are making a Doom 3??
Yes! He's interviewed a little bit about it here, which is just enough to verify it...:) Voodoo Extreme Interview with John Carmack
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Yes! He's interviewed a little bit about it here, which is just enough to verify it...:) Voodoo Extreme Interview with John Carmack
sweet!