Windows Vista, now with... photo quality wallpapers?

[Jon P. Inghram]

Boasting an enhanced graphics engine, Avalon, Vista renders complex images with more detail than before, producing photo-quality wallpaper for your desktop.

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3672_7-6300167-2.html?tag=ss

Umm... wow... I'm soooooo impressed, this is such a revolutionary technology!

[VJ]

You know, they are right: my background image looks like a child's drawing instead of a photo...

Oddly enough, I kinda like the transparent window borders that act as lenses...


Jörg

[Technoid]

Perhaps they ships it with high rez .PNG or .bmp instead of those .jpegs that are so compressed they shof big artifacts on large tft's that was in xp

[rylan]

Oh wow that made up my mind. Now I'm definately getting Windows Vista for that awesome new feature!

[spadnos]

Oh wow that made up my mind. Now I'm definately getting Windows Vista for that awesome new feature!

After all, NeXTStep couldn't do that.




Oh wait, yes it could.

- Steve

[Jammrock]

Recommended system requirement for Avalon and its Aero Glass eXperience: DirectX 9.0 graphics hardware acceleration

Not JUST a DX9c graphics accelerator ... at least a 64 MB video card, with a 128 MB jobbie recommended. And 512 MB RAM min, with 1 GB recommended. And the OS alone takes up about 4 GB of hard drive space. Default memory footprint is about 425 MB without any tweaking.

But it's not bloated and really fast ... not. But it is still in Beta. Maybe they'll speed it up before RTM ...

Jammrock

[degrub]

Let's see Intel speeds up, M$ bloats = same speed. = buy new hardware = Intel speeds up =.........

Is this a zero sum game or what ?

[cjolley]

Let's see Intel speeds up, M$ bloats = same speed. = buy new hardware = Intel speeds up =.........

Is this a zero sum game or what ?

If you are Intel or MS it's not zero sum at all.
Far from it