ATT’s web browser has hardware requirement issues
ATT is jumping into the web browser arena with a beta version of a browser called Pogo. It is made for Windows only and no intentions of releasing for other platforms have been revealed. Although the browser was created to change the way we use the web, it also changes the way you think of buying a computer, because of the hardware it requires just to surf the internet.
Further proving the point I made about software wringing every ounce of power out of current hardware just for the sake of bells and whistles, Pogo’s system requirements are unusually extreme.
It requires:
- Windows XP SP2 or later or Windows Vista
- 1.6GHz+ processor
- 2GB of RAM
- video card with at least 256MB of VRAM
for web browsing….
Ars Technica finally loaded it on a dual-processor Opteron 256 with two 3GHz CPUs, 4GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA 8800 GT video card with 512MB of VRAM to get most of the functionality out of it.
Web surfing use to be the one thing an old computer could do pretty well.
