To Vista or not to Vista?

Right now, I have a Dell XPS 410, about a year old, with 1 GB RAM, running XP
(if any of that matters).

I got a Vista upgrade but have just had it sitting here, not bothering to
install it because of things I've seen posted in different places about
bugginess, compatibility, and other issues.

I'm getting an Office Pro Vista/2007 upgrade, so the question I have is
whether it's worthwhile installing Vista now and if so, how much RAM do I
need to have? How big a headache am I in for if I upgrade to Vista?

Any insights and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

MadDog wrote:
> Right now, I have a Dell XPS 410, about a year old, with 1 GB RAM, running XP
> (if any of that matters).
>
> I got a Vista upgrade but have just had it sitting here, not bothering to
> install it because of things I've seen posted in different places about
> bugginess, compatibility, and other issues.
>
> I'm getting an Office Pro Vista/2007 upgrade, so the question I have is
> whether it's worthwhile installing Vista now and if so, how much RAM do I
> need to have? How big a headache am I in for if I upgrade to Vista?
>
> Any insights and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

The only fly in the ointment about going from XP to Vista on a laptop is
the video RAM. If you don't have at least, at least 128megs, then don't
do it.
If you do then bump the sys RAM up to at least 2gigs and you should be
fine.
Back up your important data and do a clean install. Do all of the
updates, install anti-virus and then your other apps. You may need to
install some of them using compatibility mode.
Other than that, you should be good to go.
Frank

I have an XPS410 bought with Vista home premium, 2GB memory. I am quite
happy.
You need 1 GB, you will be happier with 2GB.

Need to upgrade? Not so sure about that, if you are happy now why bother?
Office 2007 should work just fine in XP.

I am a fan of Vista, not such a fan for upgrading. If you decide to upgrade
be sure to update your BIOS first, there have been several updates/fixes
since I bought mine and you should be up-to-date in the BIOS.

If you start up your upgrade DVD it will run a compatibility check and
report what it finds as problems. Even if it doesn't report problems that
is not a guaranty that things will go smoothly.

Michael
Vista Home Premium

"MadDog" <> wrote in message
news:90A2A301-93BF-4CFA-AF6E-...
> Right now, I have a Dell XPS 410, about a year old, with 1 GB RAM, running
> XP
> (if any of that matters).
>
> I got a Vista upgrade but have just had it sitting here, not bothering to
> install it because of things I've seen posted in different places about
> bugginess, compatibility, and other issues.
>
> I'm getting an Office Pro Vista/2007 upgrade, so the question I have is
> whether it's worthwhile installing Vista now and if so, how much RAM do I
> need to have? How big a headache am I in for if I upgrade to Vista?
>
> Any insights and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

"Michael Walraven" wrote:

> You need 1 GB, you will be happier with 2GB.

Yeah, I thought this was a minimum, so I'll take a look at this.

> Need to upgrade? Not so sure about that, if you are happy now why bother?
> Office 2007 should work just fine in XP.

> I am a fan of Vista, not such a fan for upgrading. If you decide to upgrade
> be sure to update your BIOS first, there have been several updates/fixes
> since I bought mine and you should be up-to-date in the BIOS.

Maybe that's the answer. If Office 2007 runs fine in XP, and this would be
my primary motivator, I'm not sure I'm into the whole upgrade process. I
believe that Frank is right when he talks about a clean install, but that
seems monumental to me right now given how much crap I have on my computer
now and how little time I have to devote to a "project" like this. Thanks for
the practical side of this.

Sounds like a plan to me unless someone else has something compelling on
this to make it worth the hassle.

mywayfr;528828 Wrote:
> My advice is "Don't do it"...
> Vista need more RAM for working in good condition on my toshiba laptop
> it was sooooooooo sloooooooooooowwwwwwwwww you cannot imagine....
> For save I has done a full backup of my computer XP with gost and
> quickly reinstall it, no way vista need power.
> And for my self as only user, I've no found a so exiting things on
> Vista.
> I will plan to return on Xp on the desktop too...
> Cheers,
> Roger

What are the specs of your laptop? Specifically, what CPU does it use,
and how much memory does it have?


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DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS BOZO VISTA LOSER CALLED FRANK!!!

Do NOT install vista.. EVER!

? "Frank" <> ?????? ??? ??????
news:...
> MadDog wrote:
>> Right now, I have a Dell XPS 410, about a year old, with 1 GB RAM,
>> running XP (if any of that matters).
>> I got a Vista upgrade but have just had it sitting here, not bothering
>> to install it because of things I've seen posted in different places
>> about bugginess, compatibility, and other issues.
>> I'm getting an Office Pro Vista/2007 upgrade, so the question I have is
>> whether it's worthwhile installing Vista now and if so, how much RAM do I
>> need to have? How big a headache am I in for if I upgrade to Vista?
>> Any insights and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> The only fly in the ointment about going from XP to Vista on a laptop is
> the video RAM. If you don't have at least, at least 128megs, then don't do
> it.
> If you do then bump the sys RAM up to at least 2gigs and you should be
> fine.
> Back up your important data and do a clean install. Do all of the updates,
> install anti-virus and then your other apps. You may need to install some
> of them using compatibility mode.
> Other than that, you should be good to go.
> Frank

Do NOT install vista.. EVER!

you will thank me

Ï "MadDog" <> Ýãñáøå óôï ìÞíõìá
news:90A2A301-93BF-4CFA-AF6E-...
> Right now, I have a Dell XPS 410, about a year old, with 1 GB RAM, running
> XP
> (if any of that matters).
>
> I got a Vista upgrade but have just had it sitting here, not bothering to
> install it because of things I've seen posted in different places about
> bugginess, compatibility, and other issues.
>
> I'm getting an Office Pro Vista/2007 upgrade, so the question I have is
> whether it's worthwhile installing Vista now and if so, how much RAM do I
> need to have? How big a headache am I in for if I upgrade to Vista?
>
> Any insights and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Please read my review:
http://www.activewin.com/reviews/sof...ta/index.shtml

Office 2007 review:
http://www.activewin.com/reviews/sof...ms/office2007/

My Windows Vista Year in Review:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/Blog...DB!16644.entry
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"MadDog" <> wrote in message
news:90A2A301-93BF-4CFA-AF6E-...
> Right now, I have a Dell XPS 410, about a year old, with 1 GB RAM, running
> XP
> (if any of that matters).
>
> I got a Vista upgrade but have just had it sitting here, not bothering to
> install it because of things I've seen posted in different places about
> bugginess, compatibility, and other issues.
>
> I'm getting an Office Pro Vista/2007 upgrade, so the question I have is
> whether it's worthwhile installing Vista now and if so, how much RAM do I
> need to have? How big a headache am I in for if I upgrade to Vista?
>
> Any insights and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

the min is 512mb

vista really needs a vistabyte of ram, that is 10 in the power of googolplex
bytes of ram.

or 1 vistabyte is 10^10^10^100 bytes


Ï "MadDog" <> Ýãñáøå óôï ìÞíõìá
news:146FA802-00FC-41D9-AB51-...
>
>
> "Michael Walraven" wrote:
>
>> You need 1 GB, you will be happier with 2GB.
>
> Yeah, I thought this was a minimum, so I'll take a look at this.
>
>> Need to upgrade? Not so sure about that, if you are happy now why bother?
>> Office 2007 should work just fine in XP.
>
>> I am a fan of Vista, not such a fan for upgrading. If you decide to
>> upgrade
>> be sure to update your BIOS first, there have been several updates/fixes
>> since I bought mine and you should be up-to-date in the BIOS.
>
> Maybe that's the answer. If Office 2007 runs fine in XP, and this would be
> my primary motivator, I'm not sure I'm into the whole upgrade process. I
> believe that Frank is right when he talks about a clean install, but that
> seems monumental to me right now given how much crap I have on my computer
> now and how little time I have to devote to a "project" like this. Thanks
> for
> the practical side of this.
>
> Sounds like a plan to me unless someone else has something compelling on
> this to make it worth the hassle.

"thai bear" <> wrote in message
news:...
> DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS BOZO VISTA LOSER CALLED FRANK!!!
>
> Do NOT install vista.. EVER!

Call your parole officer and tell him that your ankle bracelet needs to be
tightened.

You are a mental retard. Just FYI

Just FYI

>
> ? "Frank" <> ?????? ??? ??????
> news:...
>> MadDog wrote:
>>> Right now, I have a Dell XPS 410, about a year old, with 1 GB RAM,
>>> running XP (if any of that matters).
>>> I got a Vista upgrade but have just had it sitting here, not bothering
>>> to install it because of things I've seen posted in different places
>>> about bugginess, compatibility, and other issues.
>>> I'm getting an Office Pro Vista/2007 upgrade, so the question I have is
>>> whether it's worthwhile installing Vista now and if so, how much RAM do
>>> I need to have? How big a headache am I in for if I upgrade to Vista?
>>> Any insights and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> The only fly in the ointment about going from XP to Vista on a laptop is
>> the video RAM. If you don't have at least, at least 128megs, then don't
>> do it.
>> If you do then bump the sys RAM up to at least 2gigs and you should be
>> fine.
>> Back up your important data and do a clean install. Do all of the
>> updates, install anti-virus and then your other apps. You may need to
>> install some of them using compatibility mode.
>> Other than that, you should be good to go.
>> Frank
>
>