Will XP replace Vista

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My friend is considering buying a Toshiba laptop, the U3000-13u, with
a T5250 processor. It comes with VISTA and he plans to install XP on
it instead. Will the XP drivers work with this model?

Colin
 
My friend is considering buying a Toshiba laptop, the U3000-13u, with
a T5250 processor. It comes with VISTA and he plans to install XP on
it instead. Will the XP drivers work with this model?

Colin
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You can't "downgrade" from Vista to XP - if it comes with Vista, and he
wants XP on it, he will have to wipe it completely and do a clean XP
install. And then, if the computer was designed *for* Vista, yes - he
will almost certainly have a few driver issues after that - maybe video
drivers, maybe a lot of things.

Bottom line: If he buys a computer designed around Vista and wants XP
on it, he is going to run into something between a few - and a great
many - problems. IMO, he'd be much better off to buy a laptop designed
for XP in the first place.

Tony
 
You can't "downgrade" from Vista to XP - if it comes with Vista, and he
wants XP on it, he will have to wipe it completely and do a clean XP
install. And then, if the computer was designed *for* Vista, yes - he
will almost certainly have a few driver issues after that - maybe video
drivers, maybe a lot of things.

Bottom line: If he buys a computer designed around Vista and wants XP
on it, he is going to run into something between a few - and a great
many - problems. IMO, he'd be much better off to buy a laptop designed
for XP in the first place.

Tony
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I'm prepared for all of that. The question really is will XP control
this hardware? Has any user got one? It might have been designed with
XP in mind.

Thanks.

Colin
 
I'm prepared for all of that. The question really is
will XP control
this hardware? Has any user got one? It might have
been designed with
XP in mind.

Thanks.

Colin
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It's going to run, if that's what you mean. I frequent
other groups where people have done it several times
though I have no experience myself. The problems you
run into though are that some "vista designed" machines
use drivers that aren't yet widely available and
depending on what you use, you might run into some
driver issues.

If you already own a retail copy of XP, I'd try it.
Otherwise I'd ask the Mfr whether it'll go smoothly or
not. It's one of those "maybe" things. Many of the
major vendors are still offering XP preinstalled if you
ask for it, for what it's worth.

HTH

Pop`
 
My friend is considering buying a Toshiba laptop, the U3000-13u, with
a T5250 processor. It comes with VISTA and he plans to install XP on
it instead. Will the XP drivers work with this model?
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Ask Toshiba. Surely they know whether their product can run XP.
 
If it was designed for XP, Toshiba should have XP drivers for it. If there
are no XP drivers there, then XP will not run properly on it. Best place to
look is the Toshiba website..
 
In addition to what every one else is saying, if you install
an OS other than the one that came with the machine it may
void any warranty on the machine. I can almost guarantee
that Toshiba will NOT help with any problems with XP if
Vista came on the machine (again unless they also provide XP
on that exact model.)
 
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