Kemistry Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 After successfully upgrading and updating my PC's to Vista I turned my attention to oldish laptops to see how Vista Ultimate performs... Dell D800 Latititude required a video card upgrade to run aero along with a boosted 1gig of ram.. OVERALL RESULT: VERY GOOD Dell Latitude C400 - Nope no way in hell even with 1gig of RAM OVERALL RESULT: NADA Dell D620 Core Duo 2Ghz with 2 Gigs of RAM and Nvidia quattro card OVERALL RESULT: EXCELLENT Dell SmartStep 250N 2GHz, 1 gig of RAM, 32mhz Graphics card OVERALL RESULT: SLOW BUT USABLE Dell Latitude D400 1.6Ghz, 2 Gigs of RAM, crap intel embedded graphics card OVERALL RESULT: FRICKING SLOW AND CONSIDERING MOVING BACK TO XP! (Unless you guys have some tips on how to run vista properly on this lappy - no aero of course) So that's my experience on Vista on laptops... What's your's? How well does Vista run on your lappy? What's good, what's bad? Which version of Vista did you install How are happy are you with it? P.S. Before someone starts reading me the riot act on pirating vista... I have proper licences... Im an MSDN and Technet subscriber Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordkanin Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 HP nw8440. - 2gb RAM, 2.16ghz Core Duo, ATI FireGL 5200. Except for the ****ty performance from the graphics card because ATI hasn't released drivers for it yet, It's spectacular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
u2_storm Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Dell Preision m65, 2.16 core duo, 2 gig of ram a a Quatro 256mb card, the Vista driver doesn't seem to work from the site but I still get an report of 3.9 so I'm ok I suppose..... The Aero interface is great and I Love the Windows Key + Tab.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavo Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 I put RC1 on my laptop, 2Ghz Celeron and 384M ram with built in intel graphics and it was just too slow. Now I realize it's a crappy laptop and it's been running dog slow anyway so I wasn't expecting much. I have been having slowdowns and instant shutdowns in XP anyway. So the other day I took it apart and cleaned out all of the fans and airways and it's running great. I might give Vista another try on there. Not expecting it to perform like a speed-demon, but hopefully it'll be as good as XP at least. Side note. I put Kubuntu 6.01 on there also and it was pretty slow too. XGL and compiz worked, but it was just to slow to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swgiant Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 oh no... i just cant imagine how 'OK' will vista ultimate run on my current laptop, Pentium M1.7Ghz, Intel GMA 900 and 1280MB RAM... Sigh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roofy Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Dell 600m - 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9000 - no Aero but runs just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomwarren Veteran Posted January 18, 2007 Veteran Share Posted January 18, 2007 Acer Ferrari 1000. Runs fairly well apart from Flip 3D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trek Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Dell Inspiron e1405/640m 2.0GHz Core2Duo 2.0GB RAM Intel 950 GMA Integrated Graphics Runs beautifully, full Aero. No complaints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurmoth Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Dell Latitude D620 Intel Core Duo T2300E (1.66GHz) 512MB PC2-4300 RAM Intel 945GMA Integrated Graphics Everything runs just fine for me :yes: Even Aero works beautifully. This is my work notebook, which will get upgrade to a new D620 with a Core 2 Duo as soon as we start ordering those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pornflake Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Asus M6Va Centrino 2.0Ghz 2Gb DDRII PC5300 ATI X700 128Mb Runs excellent, Score: 4.0, limited by the CPU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verbal11 Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Dell e1505 Intel Core2Duo 2.0GHz 2GB DDR2 667 RAM ATI x1300 Runs great...much better since moving from 1GB to 2GB of RAM. Score is 3.0 just because of the video card. Everything else scores 4.5 or higher. I have a Dell 700m (1.8 Pentium M, w/ 1GB RAM, Intel onboard video) that I'm considering upgrading to Vista. Upgrade advisor says Aero won't run on it. Anyone have experience running Vista on this or a similarly spec'd laptop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatcatxp Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 My notebook is SONY SZ, intel 1.82 duo, 1G DDR2, nVidia GeForce Go 7400, it runs smooth and nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xUnix Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Sony Vaio FS series, Centrino M 2GHz, Nvidia Go 6200, 1GB ram... Aero Runs perfectly... no complaints at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 3400+ Athlon 512MB RAM Geforce Go5700 64MB It runs ok, surprisingly I can get Aero Glass although I could really do with another 1GB of RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbie Ride Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 I run Windows Vista 6.0 i got free Microsoft on 3 computers. Home built comp: Asus P5GD2 Premium Intel Pentium 4 3GHz 2GB Ram Sapphire Radeon X1600XTX 256mb all in all fantastic. full Aero Acer Aspire 7100 Intel Celeron M 1.5 1GB Ram Onboard Graphics although can't seem to get Aero all in all its ok. No Aero HP DC5700 Intel Pentium D 1GB Ram Onboard Graphics memory shared with system All in all fantastic. full Aero Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian M. Veteran Posted January 18, 2007 Veteran Share Posted January 18, 2007 Dell e1505Intel Core2Duo 2.0GHz 2GB DDR2 667 RAM ATI x1300 Runs great...much better since moving from 1GB to 2GB of RAM. Score is 3.0 just because of the video card. Everything else scores 4.5 or higher. I have a Dell 700m (1.8 Pentium M, w/ 1GB RAM, Intel onboard video) that I'm considering upgrading to Vista. Upgrade advisor says Aero won't run on it. Anyone have experience running Vista on this or a similarly spec'd laptop? Let me guess, GMA910/915? That onboard card actually has the functionality to run aero, what's missing is Intels intention to make drivers. I, personally, think that its absurd that they are refusing to create drivers for a perfectly able graphics system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalsoft Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 (edited) Compaq Presario V5030ea 1.8GHz AMD 64 Turion 1.18GB DDR RAM 128MB ATI 200M it runs amazingly fast... score was 3.3 i think, might have been more, but it was great - uninstalled now as i didnt like using vista on my laptop, didnt need it, plus i only have 1 key, so i used it for desktop :D Edited January 18, 2007 by digitalsoft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quantumboredom Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 HP tc4400 tablet Core Duo 1.83 GHz 2 GiB RAM Intel GMA 950 Vista runs very well. Aero works as it should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naap51stang Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 The RC version ran fine on my Dell E1505, 1 gig ram, 60 gig HD, Core Duo T2300 I don't plan on upgrading to a permanent version of Vista til at least June. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsyOpWarlord Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Dell Inspiron XPS-Gen2 (details in sig) run extremely good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobster Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Acer Aspire 3023WLMi Mobile AMD Sempron 3000+ 1.25GB RAM ATI Mobility Radeon X700 128MB Runs very smoothly here, no problems at all. Aero is working perfectly and all applications open very quickly. I would say compared to the XP partition it runs a bit quicker too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtversky Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Toshiba Qosmio F15 Pentium M 1.8ghz Centrino Nvidia Geforce FX 5700 Go Gfx 1gig of Memory 80gb HD Runs Aero, runs the OS just fine, though due to incompatibilities with Toshiba utilities (and upgrading vs doing a clean install) I can't get Volume control or Battery info on the taskbar...upgraded from XP Media Center and Vista Media Center runs like a peach. Might format and reinstall with a clean install just to see if the battery and volume control come back. Only other issue i've noticed is extending the desktop to a 2nd display does not work, but it looks like that is probably an Nvidia Driver thing and not a vista thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcommander Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Works great, no slow downs at all even at 1920x1200! Experience Index: 3.7 See sig for specs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kemistry Posted January 18, 2007 Author Share Posted January 18, 2007 Good Stuff! Which of Dell's new range of laptops is best suited for Vista? Oh yes the Dell Latitude's D620 Core Duo's screens suck.... yuk... otherwise its a decent lappy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kreuger Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 IBM Thinkpad 755CS will barely run win98. IBM Thinkpad 380XD will barely run win2000. So no Vista on mine :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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