500 MHz machine?

[Michael A. Covington]

Vista supposedly wants an 800 MHz CPU... If you try to install it on a 500
MHz system, will it refuse, or will it just run slower?

 

[Dustin Harper]

It may run a lot slower than what it should. Previous versions of Windows
didn't do a CPU speed check, I'm not sure about Vista, though. I doubt it,
as it may interfere with SpeedStep laptops.

People are having issues with 3GHz and speed, so 500 may be too slow to
handle for you...

Dustin Harper

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

The minimum requirements state 800 MHz, so I think Setup will give you are
nice error for sure:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/capable.mspx
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[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

I successfully installed an early Longhorn (pre Vista) build on a 366 MHz
computer.
It took forever to do anything.
But that was not only the underpowered computer but the early build as well.
I have not tried it since, but if I did, I am certain it would not stay at
all since it would do nothing for testing/evaluations.

800 MHz will be slow as it is.
As to whether it will refuse, it depends on if the writers have that in the
code yet.

 

[Roy Coorne]

Vista supposedly wants an 800 MHz CPU... If you try to install it on a 500
MHz system, will it refuse, or will it just run slower?

Why not try it and tell us? I would suggest that the amount of RAM is
equally important and might compensate, to a certain degree, for missing
CPU speed.

Roy