Vista: Hardware requirement

• Windows Vista operating system will be available for consumers by end of Jan 2007. Microsoft going to release several versions with a range of system requirements.
• To run low-end Vista Home Basic version compatible PC needs to have at least an 800-megahertz processor.
• Other requiremwents are 512 megabytes of system memory and a graphics processor that can run the DirectX 9 multimedia software and has at least 32 megabytes of graphics memory.
• As it is mentioned this requirements are to run Basic version, they are not enough to display Windows Aero, its sophisticated graphical interface which works with the Vista Home Premium, Vista Business, Vista Enterprise and Vista Ultimate editions
• To run Aero your hardware need to support DirectX 9, Pixel Shader 2.0 technology and support 32 bits per pixel for color depth. The card needs at least 128 megabytes of graphics memory.