Upgrade or not upgrade.

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I have a Windows XP Professional and was going to upgrade to the Windows
Vista. After I look into all the hardware I have to purchase, I don't think
so. It would cost me more than buying a new pc. And as far as buying a new
pc with Windows Vista that is ready for the software,even though I have to
still purchase the Vista software, I just decided to stay with my good
professional. Microsoft is doing a great job as far as I am concerned though.
This is just one thing I would really have to consider and do more research
on it. Thanks Microsoft
 
Debbie--

I would encourage you to do a couple things. I would encourage you to look
through this newsgroup because and you can search terms like hardware/
People have posted machines with old hardware that have used to run Vista
quite well, particularly if they have a P4 and some people do it with
earlier processors and if they have 512 GB or 1GB of RAM.

I suspect you could run it fairly well, but have no way of knowning your
devices. The upgrade advisor is a good idea but not accurate.

I would encourage you to read from some of the posts here and some of the
links in the posts, and go to a sites like Nick White's Vista Team Blog,
Robert Mc Law's well done and frequently updated Longhorn Blog, and
Pro-Networks who do running accounts of the features.

Longhorn Blogs
http://www.longhornblogs.com/

Nick White's Technet Vista Team Blog

https://209.34.241.68/windowsvista/default.aspx

Pro Networks
http://www.pro-networks.org/

I would encourage you when Beta 1 opens up soon in say then next three or so
weeks for public download, to try it. See if you can run it and see what
you think. Ask any questions you have here along the way. You won't have
to invest money buying Vista yet, and maybe you can run it on your current
hardware. I think you'd be surprised at how well it could run but again, I
don't know your configuration.

I have it running on one box that is a P4 6 year old Dell with a 32 GB video
card. I have it running very fast. Of course it's not showing Aero Glass
and that is easily achieved by just upgrading the Video card. Having run it
and everything that attends it and the side bar I find them both a big yawn
and 2 entities I almost never think about. Every device works on that box
and it can be used as a production machine easily.

I've been critical of Vista, but I sure urge you to try it and see when RC1
goes public so you can enjoy your computer to the fullest. It has some very
, very nice features that you will like--I'm just disappointed in what it
could be that it will not. I really like search and I think IE 7 is working
pretty well now--backup is easy; it has DVD burn and partition apps in it
and these web sites will go through the features with you not to mention
www.microsoft.com/windowsvista and
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/default.mspx and

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/evaluate/hardware/default.mspx

CH.
 
Sorry Debbie --it's getting late and I'm hitting typos. I meant to say I
would strongly encourage you when the public CPP RC1 not Beta 1 opens up
soon to give it a try and see what you think while reading sites like I gave
you for feature info and trying things out. Also by then, the help will be
fairly complete and they will have a useful help website you can search from
Vista from the start menu or you can drag it to your desktop.

Windows Vista Help and Support "Browse Help"
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/c0680472-bb5f-4a9c-9480-b16ab3eeb8f51033.mspx

CH
 
Not knowing how old your system is I cannot comment on the hardware
purchases you seem to believe you must do. Vista will run on just about any
computer built since XP came out, but Vista will scale back some features if
you have a system that will not fully support those features. For example,
Vista does not have to have a Glass compatible video card to run, it just
won't enable the 3d features. And so on.
 
Chad:
Was that a tired typo or wishful thinking? Have a great day sir.
 
Debbie, I have a 2.8Mhz Celeron processor, 512MB RAM and an ATI radeon
9200SE graphics card. Windows Vista works fine on my machine. Okay the
graphics card 'does not' support the glass interface or 3D but that is
easily sorted by me just buying a new graphics card.

--
John Barnett MVP
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Debbie - relax - First you should not consider "upgrading" with any of the
current versions of Vista -current versions are the "Ultimate" containing
ALL planned Vista features (except for some business options). Please wait
for the release of the two "Home Editions" which will have reduced features
and hardware requirements.
 
John said:
Debbie, I have a 2.8Mhz Celeron processor, 512MB RAM and an ATI radeon
9200SE graphics card. Windows Vista works fine on my machine. Okay the
graphics card 'does not' support the glass interface or 3D but that is
easily sorted by me just buying a new graphics card.
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I'm running 5472 on a celeron 1 gig, 512megs of dimm on an ati 128 rage
with 32megs of rambony. Vista scales back on the video (no glass, no
glass) but everything works fine!
Frank
 
Wishful thinking about what? She'll have her shot at a version of RC1 soon.
and, she has no reason not to try Vista. I don't know what's on her box. I
think everyone should make up their mind by trying the software they wonder
about, Dennis.


CH
 
The business options are included in Ultimate also. Nothing is left out.
After all, Ultimate is the source on your Vista dvd for all the other
editions as well.
 
Chad:
Sorry about my comment not being clear. I wasn't referring to
Debbie, I was referring to your typo as being wishful thinking that Beta1
would be re-released.


Chad Harris said:
Wishful thinking about what? She'll have her shot at a version of RC1
soon. and, she has no reason not to try Vista. I don't know what's on her
box. I think everyone should make up their mind by trying the software
they wonder about, Dennis.


CH

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I have also run vista on VMware server - creating a virtual machine on the
same PC running windows xp. The allocated memory was 256MB. Now this is way
below recommended but, strangely, it run without any problem and, also
rather strangely, it ran as fast as being installed on a new partition with
512MB RAM. Having said that Vista on my machine with 512MB RAM is still
rather slower than i would expect. Still i'm ugrading to 1.5GB of memory
soon so, hopefully, there 'might' be a slight improvement.

--
John Barnett MVP
Associate Expert
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