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i wanted to find out if my computer is ready for vista. microsoft has this utility that you can download called the windows vista upgrade advisor to check if my computer can run their new operating system. warning: the utility does not work on windows 98, 2000, xp pro x64 editions.

so i downloaded the thing (6.4mb) and tried to install it. the program asked for two more things to download before i can install and run it — msxml6 (1.45mb) and microsoft .net framework 2.0 (22.4mb). all this just to check if my computer can run vista. sigh.

i finally got it to run.

clicking on the start scan will kicked off its analysis of my system. the green progress bar was pretty too.

and after a few minutes, the results are:

so i can run vista. well, the business edition at least. but it does advise me to get a dvd drive or order windows vista cds instead of the dvd. apparently my system memory (768 meg) as well as my graphics adapter (ati radeon 9550, 128mb) is suffient to run vista and aero.

but if i wanted to run the ultimate edition, i would need:

so besides the cost of the upgrade to vista, i would also have to dish out money for a dvd r/w drive and a tv tuner. aawww. i can see it now, a few months after upgrading to vista, i’ll have to add more memory and start replacing my current hard disks with bigger ones.

i think i’ll hold off upgrading until ms kills off support for xp pro. then i’ll upgrade to ubuntu

entry posted on Sunday, 5 November 2006 and filed under hardware, linux, software. you can follow any responses through the rss 2.0 feed. comments are closed, but you can trackback from your own site.