It's like a new car. Don't buy the first model in a production run. Give yourself some time to get the bugs worked out. I'm fine with XP. At this point I see no benefit in even bothering using Vista and a whole lot of headaches in trying to upgrade and move all the software and date from the old one. Microsoft upgrades which you apply over the top of old applications are notoriously buggy. Just because it's new doesn't mean it's better. Case in Point: Dragon NaturallySpeaking is NOT Vista Compatible out of the box yet. You have to download a new version. I think the smart thing to do is just wait it out a year or so then buy a whole new computer. The important question is "Is there anything I can't live without in Vista right now?".
before installing use vlite and take out most of the features you are not gonna use. Sometimes its slow at 2gb ddr2 ram for me ^^
It's called Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor and you can download it here: http://download.microsoft.com/downl...6-a7404ca7eaf5/WindowsVistaUpgradeAdvisor.msi
You might also want to look at the compatibility of your graphics card....some won't let you run vista. Go to the manufacturers website if you need new drivers.
I first installed it with 1GB of ram and was unhappy with performance. 2GB for me seems to be the sweet spot, especially running multiple apps like dreamweaver, photoshop etc.
The people that say that generally haven't even touched Vista. Vista is nice, if you have the hardware to run it.
I am running Vista on a new machine (that I bought with Vista). It takes at least 1GB of RAM and a serious video card. I would think your machine would need more RAM and also at least a 256MB graphics card.
oh ok, well i got a laptop so gfx card is not upgradable, unless i upgrade the whole motherboard, which will cost a bit...
Intel Celeron M 1.40 (laptop) 480 Ram (Integrated Graphics Taking up the rest) Vista Home Premium running better than XP pro.
Notorious, Thats a good news to me. I have a samelike Laptop as yours, except i got 256ram, also what is your Video card? 128mb?
That's kind of false. I run Windows Vista with Aero running and everything very smoothly at 1GB. There's not much lag when opening programs, it doesn't lock up that much or anything, runs better than XP did on 512.
It might not be recommended, but it does work fine on that. I (my own opinion) would recommend 1GB... you don't really need higher than that for most stuff, besides gaming.