N!NJA writes in with a diary story on a lawsuit filed against Acer for selling Windows Vista on an underpowered notebook. Of course anybody can sue for anything; it will be interesting to see if this action goes forward in the courts. "With a lawsuit filed Wednesday in San Francisco, California, two commonality of Fostoria, Ohio seek damages and relief from the world's third-largest compatible maker after earnings a sub-$600 Aspire anthology that appear Windows Vista Premium and a gigabyte of shared system and visuals memory. In its official "recommended system requirements," Microsoft recommends that an auxiliary 128MB is obligatory to run the Premium exteriorization of its latest desktop business expenses system. ... Microsoft says that the Premium, Business, and transcendent editions of Vista will run on 512MB systems — with certain OS puss* disabled. In the beginning, Redmond called these 'Vista Capable' machines, and it's facing a cull lawsuit over this potentially sophistical moniker."

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