The Inquirer is reporting that the current beta version of Windows Vista eats as much as 800Mb of system memory (see screenshot).

“Our source reported that Vista runs ok with 1024Mb of system memory but no-doubt 2048Mb would be much better.”

Vista won’t install on FAT32 partitions, it only likes NTFS partitions. We also know that the system performs quite well on an Athlon 4000+ and a Geforce 7800 GTX 512 works just fine in the mix. Aero glass looks good, we liked it when we first clapped eyes on Beta 1 version. Vista occupies roughly three times more space than Windows XP. In fact, it’ll require up to a whopping seven gigabytes of drive space.

Well, if it was a tiny little thing, would we be as impressed?