I attended the Intel ICC today in New Jersey and had a great time hanging with my old System Builder buddies and Barry Heller of Intel.
The Intel ICC is a bi-yearly road show intended to keep the channel partners up to date on Processors and Motherboards for desktops, Servers and Notebooks.
We always manage to have a good time with plenty of good food, swag and giveaways. Barry is one of the best presenters on the tech scene, he treats marketing and disclaimer slides with the same distain we do. System Builders are a tough audience, we've had a rough time making a living these past few years, that's why I've had so much time for this blogging....
Today we learned about the requirements for Windows Vista Premium, this is the skew that will give you the full Vista effect, the spectacular visual sophistication that has us all anticipating a new generation of high end power PC's.
Intel's 945 and 965 chipsets are ready today to create the Aero Glass experence when combined with a combination of a fast video card, a gigabit of memory and a dual-core CPU.
Windows Vista Basic will be the skew relegated to the systems that don't have the right stuff to run the new 3d graphics that will make Windows Vista wow everyone.
Windows Logo Program 3.0
Requirements for Hardware
Windows Vista Hardware