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Old 12-01-2008
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Re: Windows 7 Won't Require Graphics Hardware for Effects

"Bob Campbell" <bob@bob.bob> wrote in message
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> "I came from distant star" <starail@it.com> wrote in message
> news:49344182$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...
>> UK magazine Custom PC reports that Windows 7 will feature WARP, which
>> lets any computer with an 800MHz processor run Aero-style desktop
>> transparency and, with a certain performance hit, the Direct3D
>> requirements for video games.

>
> What a load of baloney. You can't even *install* Vista on an 800 MHz
> CPU, but "Windows 7" will run perfect and fast on it, complete with
> advanced graphics!
>
> I'm guessing that the next revelation - by some equally obscure "PC
> magazine" in Katmandu - will be that when you fart in front of any
> "Windows 7" machine with a 3.5" floppy drive, a little hand will come out
> of the floppy drive slot and wave it away.


I should install one of those devices in front of my wife!



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