Those are the requirements, but of course they are about as realistic as Windows XP's from a few years back or even Windows 3.1's when it came out. My best recollection is that the software would run, barely, but try to run a program and it would be swapping time.
But let's play along and pretend they are realistic. Things still don't look great for upgraders.
Every Mac made in the last three or more years will run MacOS X Panther just fine.
I don't have any hard statistics, but I'd be shocked if more than 20% of computers sold last year would qualify under the Premium Ready specifications, even if I was generous and excluded the RAM requirement. Taking a typical $500 PC and spending $200 for a Vista upgrade, $99 for a new graphics card and $40 to double the RAM seems like an awfully tough sell.
The Apple commercial showing PC going into surgery to get ready for Vista was pretty realistic, all things considered.
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I haven't found those commercials of much value to date, but that one does sound pretty hilarious, I look forward to seeing it. Statistics however show that only a very small minority of PC owners ever actually upgrade their current version of Windows to a new one, I've seen stats showing only 2-3% of all Windows sales were shrink wrapped upgrades, so while the commercial does sound terribly funny it may be slightly off the mark. Like a good bit of the country my house will be tuned into football this afternoon and evening, hopefully it will make an appearance at some point, thanks for mentioning it.