Kookaburra asks "will Longhorn eat RAM?"

My "official Microsoft approved answer": too early to talk about minimum or recommended requirements. We probably won't talk about minimum requirements until right before launch.

The answer I give my friends after they get me drunk: "yes.".... (Deletia) If I say "oh, we'll make it work on a middle-of-the-road 2000 machine," you'll scream bloody murder if it ends up not running as well as you'd expect. If I say "It'll take a gig of RAM" then you'll all start writing articles about how Longhorn is gonna be a bloated, crappy OS.

Anyway, it's too early to predict. See ya in 2005. [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Scoble's got it on the money. While I plan on mocking Longhorn gratuitously, let's be serious here: Mac OS X really only gets happy when you have 300+MB of RAM. I mean, Suuure it'll run on as little as 32MB, but happy? 300MB+. Longhorn'll probably eat at least twice that by 2005.

Is this any reason to mock it? No. There'll be far better reasons like say crowing about features in Longhorn that'll be legacy in Mac OS X by the time Longhorn ships. :)

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