Vista to take 15 gig of HD space

[Lord Athlon]

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=11100002VBCU

To be Vista Capable, a new PC must have an 800-MHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, a 20-GB hard drive with 15 GB of free space, and a graphics chipset that is capable of handling DirectX 9.

Here comes the bloat !!!!!

 

[StevenYoo]

im sure most of that is for the paging file

 

[nyker96]

In that case, Hasta la Vista ...

 

[Lonyo]

My Windows partition is 5GB, and it's got 1.5GB free, and 1GB taken up with The Sims 2 crap, plus some other stuff like documents and a few programs.
So basically Vista needs about 12x the space of XP
Hopefully it will be able to be trimmed.

 

[Powered by AMD]

Originally posted by: nyker96
In that case, Hasta la Vista ...

lol, Yes, Im sure we wll be able to run everything on XPSp2, at least during two or three more years.

 

[mb]

Oh no what am I to do!!!!
Bill Gates is evil!

:roll:

 

[imported_LoKe]

That's not terrible. I mean, 200GB hard drives are becomming standard by now.

 

[fishbits]

15 GB is practically nothing to me for a new OS install, much less in the 1-3 years when I switch to Vista. As mentioned, some of that is paging, some is probably options you can remove/choose not to install. If you can't afford the drive space as cheap as it is, or don't want to use the OS for whatever other reason, just don't get it. I'll weigh the pros and cons when its actually out and evaluate from there. If it truly does offer better security, last thing I want to do is scare Mom and Pop away from it because of non-existant "OMGXORZ disk space!" issues, when compared to them getting less-infested, easier to maintain desktops.

 

[secretanchitman]

nlite better be updated to take care of vista...heh.

fortunately i have a 75GB partition dedicated to windows, so i should be alright. i just need to up my ram and video card and ill be set.

 

[Ika]

does that include everything included in Vista, such as Aero?

 

[Czar]

a pitty since it is becoming more and more viable to have windows on a flash memory stick

 

[BoberFett]

The only drive in my current system is an 18Gb 15K scsi drive. There's absolutely no reason an operating system should consume as much hard drive or memory space as windows. WTF does it do with all that space? MS needs to hire some old school demo coders, guys that could do amazing things in 4Kb.

 

[notfred]

So? Win95 only tkes up about 50mb of space, buy you guys are still all using XP that takes a couple gigs.

 

[blurredvision]

Que all the AT'ers who don't believe that new software should take advantage of newer hardware. Gamers don't expect the new games to use 6 year old hardware, do they? If Vista didn't harness the power of today's hardware, I'd be pissed.

 

[T9D]

This is not nessasarily bad. Perhaps they are throwing in a lot of free stuff. Virus scanners, burning software, DVD and HD-DVD player, photshop, and whatever else that should have always been included in an OS. And not to forget the insane amount of drivers out there now and how big they are in file size.

Guess we'll have to wait and see though.

 

[Looney]

I don't know why you guys are complaining... i haven't seen a system sold in the last year with anything less than 100GB.

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: BoberFett
The only drive in my current system is an 18Gb 15K scsi drive. There's absolutely no reason an operating system should consume as much hard drive or memory space as windows. WTF does it do with all that space? MS needs to hire some old school demo coders, guys that could do amazing things in 4Kb.

Actually most of that is just drivers and redundant drivers and files.

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: BoberFett
WTF does it do with all that space?

That is a damn good question. Isn't it essentially the same as XP? Even if it included a whole bunch of new free applications (which is doesn't) there's _no way_ it would take up 15 gigs. Could be big media files?...

 

[Looney]

As a completely fresh install, it's just a tad over 7gb. But it balloons really fast, and part of that i think is because of shadow copy and volume shadow copying.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: Atheus

Originally posted by: BoberFett
WTF does it do with all that space?

That is a damn good question. Isn't it essentially the same as XP? Even if it included a whole bunch of new free applications (which is doesn't) there's _no way_ it would take up 15 gigs. Could be big media files?...

It's absolutely NOTHING like XP. It was created from the ground up.

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: Looney

Originally posted by: Atheus

Originally posted by: BoberFett
WTF does it do with all that space?

That is a damn good question. Isn't it essentially the same as XP? Even if it included a whole bunch of new free applications (which is doesn't) there's _no way_ it would take up 15 gigs. Could be big media files?...

It's absolutely NOTHING like XP. It was created from the ground up.

Really? No NT kernel? I've never read anything technical about it, just assumed it would be more of the same, I guess I'm Microsoft prejudiced. Links?

 

[Looney]

http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.aspx?catid=34&entercat=y

 

[DeathReborn]

Originally posted by: Looney
I don't know why you guys are complaining... i haven't seen a system sold in the last year with anything less than 100GB.

I know it's more than 15GB but here: Dell 1100 - 80GB

There's probably hundreds more but that's just an example.

 

[statik213]

So? I've got 3x160GB Drives

 

[Vampirrella]

How soon will we be forced to make the switch over to Vista? Are software companies developing solely for the Vista platform now? My Xp pro systems work great and im hoping to squeeze another few yrs out of the XP OS before i have to pay $$$$$ for x amount of copies of Vista for licences on my network systems. Always in a no-win situation. I hated it back when i was "forced" to upgrade to PCI-e architecture too, just for a graphic card upgrade, but then i needed new memory too ect ect... always forcing us to spend more more more ugh