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Digitimes.com runs a story about DRAM supplies getting short this year. He mentions Vista SP1 might be a trigger for more DRAM demand:
"Nanya's Pai said that in 2007 major PC OEMs had limited amounts to spend on DRAM because of rising panel and battery prices.
He expects the PC market to have a drop in sales in the first quarter, which will be deeper than the ones in previous years because of strong shipments by PC OEMs to retail channels in the fourth quarter.
But the PC market will rebound in the second quarter, he said. The launch of an updated version of Microsoft Vista on February 15, if its prices do not go up too much compared to its previous version, may help boost DRAM sales, Pai added."
I haven't confirmed this date with Microsoft yet. When I have I will post it.
UPDATE: Microsoft official response to Bink.nu: No comment
Does anyone really think Vista is a major influence on hardware or anything?
All I care about is that they make Windows 7 as fast on XP on the same hardware - both new and old. Vist is slower on both new and old equipment. So many idiots say things like it seems fast enough on my new quad core 3ghz with 4 GIGS of ram - while it may run fast enough for you it still isn’t as fast as XP particularly in a network environment.
Vista is flawed in design and will never ever with all the patches and SPs will still be slower than XP in: file copies, file moves, network copies, network moves, network access time, and video performance. You can say all the my computer doesn’t seem slow or ther is a patch for that but until you do some serious testing with numerous identical machines running XP and Vista you really can’t say Vista will ever be a viable option. I’m stoked they are working on Windows 7 as Vista is the Windows ME that MS will want to forget.
gizmodo.com/.../battlemodo-windows-vista-service-pack-1-rc1- vs-shipping-vista
www.news.com/.../21 00-1016_3-6220201.html
exo-blog.blogspot.com/.../vista-sp1-performance-dud.html
false alarm. I don't think Vista SP1 will be ready by Feb. 15. maybe around the start of spring 2008 is when Vista SP1 may come out.