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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 1988964" data-attributes="member: 360">Eh. The "system requirements" list is a bit silly, but remember that it was probably written when CPU speeds were skyrocketing, and it looked very likely that we'd see 4 GHz CPUs from Intel in 2003, if not 2004. Figuring that they'd make it into midrange boxes by 2005/2006 seemed very realistic once. As things currently stand, Intel's launching dual-core CPUs in the next couple of months, and AMD by the end of summer. They should hit midrange systems by mid-2006, if not earlier.Nearly everything I've read suggests that pretty much any DirectX 9 video card -- even 915G integrated video, a GeForce 6200, or a Radeon X300 [but not a 9200; ATi's low-end AGP part isn't DirectX 9 yet] -- will do to get the top-end Longhorn UI.A new UI will probably be the most visible feature of Longhorn, but it was the most visible feature of XP, too. Our resident Mac advocate would probably note that Apple's been doing a 3D-accellerated UI with OS X for quite some time.</blockquote>