The November 8 start of manufacture will ensure the ship window of "early next year," but this is just the core Vista, there is still the Ultimate Extra Add-ons package, which will be put together manually.
We've significantly improved the graphical user interface, but it's built on that very stable core Vista technology, which is far more stable than the current Mac platform, for instance.
Yes, I'm sure your Quad Core Intel running Vista is really cool but OS X and, by extension, the iPhone OS are the way things are going.
[Update, 05-31-07, 2:37PM PSo] someotherther famous bloggers and I were discussing this unlikely rumor, and we started to realize something: With core elements of Vista in place on Intel hardware, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to imagine OS X running Windows apps.
The Aspire X1700 desktop features a 2.4GHz dual core Pentium CPU, Vista Home Premium (64-bit), 4GB of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 7100 chipset with a 512MB integrated NVIDIA G100 card, 640GB hard drive, DVD burner, card reader, nine USB ports, HDMI out, and eSATA port.
"Our approach with Windows 7," he wrote, "is to build off the same core architecture as Windows Vista so the investments you and our partners have made in Windows Vista will continue to pay off with Windows 7".
Depending on how it performs 1.73GHz dual core processor, 2GB and Vista don't exactly inspire us it could be worthy of inclusion in, say, your home theater.
The six-pound notebook features a 15.5-inch "high-resolution" widescreen display (no mention of actual resolution), 2.10GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, Vista Home Premium, 4GB of RAM, up to a 400GB hard drive, and a 512MB ATI Radeon HD 4570 GPU.
The Averatec All-in-One PC (as it's called) consists of a 22-inch screen at 1680×1050 resolution, 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, Vista Home Premium, nVidia GeForce 8400 graphics, 320GB hard drive, 2GB of RAM, DVD burner, 802.11 b/g wireless, built-in 1.3-megapixel webcam, wireless keyboard and mouse, remote control for Vista Media Center, and an optional built-in ATSC TV tuner.
One starts at $1,699 and features a quad-core Intel Q8200 processor, Vista Home Premium, DVD burner, 4GB of RAM, 320GB SATA hard drive, integrated Intel GMA X4500HD graphics, and a SoundBlaster Audigy HD sound card.
The highest-level configuration starts at just under $1000 for a quad-core CPU, 64-bit Vista, 4GB of RAM, a 500GB hard dtive, and nVidia GeForce 9400 graphics.
