Vista on laptops?

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Anyone tried Vista beta on laptops? I want to install it on one of mine, the
hardware configuartion is 1.7 Centrino, 512MB RAM, Video card ATI Mobility
Radeon 9200 with 32MB. It's A Sony VGN-S260. I understand it won't do Aero
with 32MB video ram. I may need to buy more system ram.

What is your experience, and what is your hardware configuation.

Thanks,
Mario
 
I am running Vista on my Dell Inspiron 9300. It is a 1.6 GHz Pentium M with
512 MB ram, 256MB Nvidia 6800 video card. It has run great so far, but you do
notice lags with 512 MB. Vista would probably run on that laptop, but it may
be very slow.
 
I am running it on an Emachines 6811 with a AMD 3400+ x64 and ATI 9600 with
256 and 512 ram
Works great.
No problems here.
 
Vista is too unstable right now to be working with it on a laptop.. You
would be getting sluggish performance with an unstable environment if you
tried doing so.. I'd wait untill the final release
 
Mario said:
Anyone tried Vista beta on laptops? I want to install it on one of mine,
the hardware configuartion is 1.7 Centrino, 512MB RAM, Video card ATI
Mobility Radeon 9200 with 32MB. It's A Sony VGN-S260. I understand it
won't do Aero with 32MB video ram. I may need to buy more system ram.

What is your experience, and what is your hardware configuation.

Thanks,
Mario
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I have installed Beta 2 on an extra partition of my laptops harddrive (dual
boot with XP) and it runs fine (2 gigs RAM, MR 9600, Pentium M 1700).
I'd suggest you put in some RAM so you have 1 gig. Only problem so
far are is my TV-tuner (connects to the USB-port). No Vista-driver for it,
but the laptops hardware itself (modem, NIC, WiFi) is either recognozed
out of the box or via Windows Update (YMMV).

Kai-Uwe
 
Tony,
I just installed the 32bit version on a D810 and will install the 64 on
either a m6811 or 7422GX. I have to say that the desktop is beautiful but
the installation was painfully slow.

Did your install take a long time also?

Eunix
 
Eunix said:
Tony,
I just installed the 32bit version on a D810 and will install the 64 on
either a m6811 or 7422GX. I have to say that the desktop is beautiful but
the installation was painfully slow.

Did your install take a long time also?

Eunix
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Acer Travelmate 8101:

- centrino 1,5 ghz
- ram: 512 ddr
- gfx: ati x700, 128 mb

-> installation time: about 1 hour

-> vista worked, but sometimes it is very slow :-(
 
To All.

Running x68 Beta 2 on Maxdata 8100is , 1gig ram, 2gig Mobile Intel. Running
it at 1400x1200. Works better than my Desktop pc which belive it or not is a
lot better spec. Install not too bad. 1gig of ram makes the diff.

No crashes at all on laptop. 100s on pc.

Seems to be Via chipset drivers and lack of decent ac97 audio drivers for
MSI mainboards.

Anyway.. Laptop... GO FOR IT.. well worth it.

P!!!
 
To All.

Running x68 Beta 2 on Maxdata 8100is , 1gig ram, 2gig Mobile Intel. Running
it at 1400x1200. Works better than my Desktop pc which belive it or not is a
lot better spec. Install not too bad. 1gig of ram makes the diff.

No crashes at all on laptop. 100s on pc.

Seems to be Via chipset drivers and lack of decent ac97 audio drivers for
MSI mainboards.

Anyway.. Laptop... GO FOR IT.. well worth it.

P!!!
 
Acer Ferrrari 4005 works _OK_.

1g RAM, AMD Turion (x64) at 2.0ghz, ATI X700 w/ 128m vram. Aero at 1680x1050
- looks nice.

The reason I said 'ok' is that not all drivers are installed. Haven't got
the sound up, and the 'mass storage controller' is a bit flakey (has to do w/
running USB storage devices based on my experience).

I also experienced some considerable corruption when the notebook came out
of standby mode. Video all bad, chkdisk found a bunch of corrupt files,
ole32.dll got killed, so IE became busted. I'm reinstalling now. Might have
made the mistake of installing ATI's Catalyst Control Center over the default
video driver installed by Vista.

I'll keep you up to date if I find things get more stable.

One other thing I noticed. Vista doesn't like to be installed to a logical
partition. I got install errors such that Vista couldn't 'prepare' the hard
drive. As soon as I changed the partition to a system partition, everything
went smoothly.

More info that you were looking for, I'm sure...

R.
 
Have attempted to install Vista on a number of laptops. A couple of errors
so far:
Ntoskrnl error message - many people have found this issue
BIOS incompatible / ACPI - People have found this issue also but no-one has
found a general fix.
Will report back.
 
Honestly, that should work fine. But I would suggest more RAM when you can,
because 512 barely cuts it for WinXP anymore IMHO :) I've got Vista
running just fine on my Compaq Presario laptop (Turion64, 1.2GB RAM, 128MB
Radeon 200M). But I still say to everyone who uses their Vista for more than
an hour, disabled Aero Glass! It takes up too much memory and is still laggy,
hopefully Microsoft will change that soon.

A little off-topic, but PocketPC users and gamers might not prefer Vista yet
either. Support is limited.
 
gat a HP laptop

1Gb ram
AMD 3000+ Sempron
ATI Radeon Xpress 200m 128 Mb graphics

took me about 1 hour to install but runs great (just take some time to
start/stop due to bad drivers)

haven't testet my Wlan yet...
 
I have an older eMachines 5305 that meets the minimum requiements but Vista
upgrade takes about 2 hours, then hangs and after a reboot spends 10 minutes
rolling back to XP.
 
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