Upgrade to Vista?

**Firebird Phoenix** · 07-18-2008, 11:48 AM

So when I bought my laptop 2 years ago I said it was "vista capable" since vista was on the verge of coming out. It's a Toshiba with XP, anyways I may have deleted a few on accident and internet explorer, and a few other windows programs don't work. It's annoying, and I don't have a recovery cd to reformat it as you had to create it and that program is also messed up...So is Vista worth the upgrade and how do I get it??? Thanks

**Mr. Luos** · 07-18-2008, 11:50 AM

I wouldn't call that an 'upgrade.'

**Stone** · 07-18-2008, 11:51 AM

Dont Do It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**Commie** · 07-18-2008, 11:53 AM

vista capable means just that....capable not that it will run smooth....I wouldn't even attempt it seriously. Stick with XP

**shady milkman** · 07-18-2008, 12:02 PM

for a home user...vista is fine. i ran it on my work machine for 9 months..it was our test mule..it had a 1.5ghz pentium 4 and some odd ball amount of ram..7xx..i had a 1 gigbit network connection and did alot of network/computer intensive things..it worked fine...took me about 1 week to get used to things....if this is your work/for work computer then i wouldnt. but for home of course you can.

**Spaz** · 07-18-2008, 12:06 PM

windows XP or what ever you're running now works just fine right??? why change it???

**Blitzed** · 07-18-2008, 01:04 PM

Fuck vista, it has the magical power to make a fast comp slow as bawls

**tornado** · 07-18-2008, 01:22 PM

I have Vista home premium and i love it

**CJREX** · 07-18-2008, 02:13 PM

My wife had Vista and now it burns when I pee.

***Ed Blown Vert*** · 07-18-2008, 02:17 PM

I have been running Vista 64 since SP1. So far so good.

**Silverado2000LS1** · 07-18-2008, 04:55 PM

I was skeptical about running Vista. I am a network administrator, and I had been using it on a test machine since the beta days. It was ok, but I had mixed results. I decided to upgrade my new computer that I built a few months ago to Vista, and I have had no problems. I even upgraded my Dell D610 laptop to Vista, and it runs fine also. If you have the hardware to run it, it will be fine. SP1 solved a lot of problems from the original release.

**Firebird Phoenix** · 07-18-2008, 05:25 PM

Some mixed views on whether to "upgrade" or not. This is my home laptop. My system specs are...

Toshiba Satellite
Genuine Intel(R) CPU
T1350 @1.86GHz
1.86GHz. 0.99 GB of RAM

Originally Posted by Spaz

windows XP or what ever you're running now works just fine right??? why change it???

Like I said now in the first post my dumb self accidentally deleted some things and can't use IE and other windows programs, along with the program where I was suppose to "make" my own recovery CD....and this seems like the only option to start a new slate. I've tried re-downloading IE several times with no prevail.

***Ed Blown Vert*** · 07-18-2008, 05:40 PM

I would stay would XP. Vista likes at least 2 gigs or RAM. I recommend 4. I run 8

**LSx Heaven** · 07-18-2008, 08:26 PM

Originally Posted by CJREX

My wife had Vista and now it burns when I pee.

LOL

**LSx Heaven** · 07-18-2008, 08:30 PM

Keep Your Xp, I Am Fixing To Delete This Vista Crap And Down Grade To The Much Better Xp. It Is Not An Upgrade, I Assure You. It Does Not Play Well With Others. You Know It Does Work Well With Other Programs And Software. It Has Caused Me Problems. One Last Time Keep Xp.

**redls1** · 07-19-2008, 04:14 AM

I deleted my vista off and put xp on my laptop.

**tnthub** · 07-19-2008, 05:46 AM

4G of ram, a decent video adapter, and fast hard drive and I would opt for Vista. Unfortunately your laptop does not meet those specs. Although Vista may "run", by the time you add anti-virus and other utilities in the background, and want a word processor, email, and a browser open concurrently, you will be unhappy with the performance.

Not that Vista can't be "de-tuned" in terms of bells and whistles, and configured to provide reasonable performance, but since you are asking this question it would be a real hassle for you to do it.

I do this stuff for a living and while I initially was satisfied with my five year old P4 with 1.5G of ram, Vista, and Office 2007, I now have 4G of ram, 1T of fast hard drive, and a newer graphics adapter with 512k on it. My machine runs Vista just fine despite its age and lack of gaming capacity as I basically use it for blogging, office programs, accounting, and a little surfing. For my use it is reasonably fast and I can utilize enough of the eye candy to have some fun. Your laptop is nowhere near even my very outdated performance capabilities.

Stay with XP. If you can find a full version buy it before it is all gone and do a clean reload.

**Spaz** · 07-19-2008, 07:09 AM

Originally Posted by Ed Blown Vert

I would stay would XP. Vista likes at least 2 gigs or RAM. I recommend 4. I run 8

holy shit!!! 8gb of ram?!

every one tells me i got over kill with 4...

***Ed Blown Vert*** · 07-19-2008, 07:55 AM

Originally Posted by Spaz

holy shit!!! 8gb of ram?!

every one tells me i got over kill with 4...

Vista loves memory.

Actually, my 2nd PC's memory died. So I moved my 4 gigs to it. And upgraded my main PC to 8

**Silverado2000LS1** · 07-19-2008, 09:53 AM

4GB is optimal for Vista. 8GB would benefit extreme power users. I have 4GB in mine and it runs just fine, and I do a lot of gaming on it. Any of the NT based operating systems will use as much memory as is possible. Here are my specs:

Home Computer:

Intel Quad Core Q6600 2.4 Ghz
Asus P5N-E-SLI MB
4GB Crucial Ballistix Memory
(2) WD 320 GB Caviar SATA Drives
(2) Lite-On SATA DVD-RW Drives
Visiontek Radeon HD 4850 Video Card
Antec 750W PS
Antec Nine Hundred case
Vista Ultimate

Laptop:

Dell Latitude D610
Intel Pentium M 2.0 Ghz
2GB RAM
Vista Ultimate

The laptop runs Vista just fine. I see very little, if any, difference from when I upgraded it from XP PRO.