"DX10 graphics card with 512MB of memory"

I thought that was going to be the recommended amount, not required.

How many gamers are going to actually be able to run it, 10%?

They're called Futuremark, not Historymark

I use vista, and I get exact result Frame PSfor frame PS as i do with Xp
in most games 

so get over it and actually try the OS then shut up 
vista is twice as reliable as XP ever was for me, I havent had to reinstall due to performace loss yet at all, going on 12 months now

who the hell play benchmarks ?
i want to see games running fast and smooth, if i want a animated to movie i buy something form Pixar ^_^

What percentage of gamers have Vista + a DX10 card?

I meet all the hardwware requirements but there's no way I'm going to install Vista.

..is it that the last version of 3DMark hadn't had much in the way of ground-breaking new benchmarks? 05 and 06 are almost identical. It looks like the new one will be too. 
Obviously the focus is on benchmarking and not pretty, new and interesting visuals, but... bolting on a few bits to old demos is boring!

but we don't because games run slower in vista across the board, when there were promises made (in error) that DX10 would improve performance

meanwhile back in the real world DX10 is not worth the performance hit.

MS are trying to use DX10 to 'leverage' vista but it isnt working and my guess is this could favor the openGL api.

Futuremark need to do a bench for that.

It requires veesta because it's DX10.

...they have an alternative product line !

They're definitely not going to make money off this one ! (i'd be surprised if they even cover the cost of developing it !)

If you hadn't guessed, I won't be moving to fister, i'm undecided which way to leap yet, but it's either Ubuntu (70%) or Apple (30%)

Does anybody wanna guess how much MS paid for that? I personally don't see why they couldn't have made an XP/DX9 version. Vista + DX10 isn't all that it's cracked up to be.

There you have it. Now we have a reason to invite big brother to our computer woohoo!

Now i have a justifiable reason to give my wife why i "need" that 400 OS. 

Worthless benchmarking FTW!

Makes sense that to test DX10 they need to require vista, but how about them writing a OpenGL test too?

Please be a joke, thats the same minimum specs as Vista has.

vista a decent operating system when you get used to it and i think it better then xp anyways cant wait what score i get in 3dmark 2008 i guess it called

Guess nobody will be using the new 3D Mark then.....