Branners Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 Im about to buy my wife a new laptop and I have a choice of Vista Business or Windows XP Pro. Which one should i go for? The laptop will have 1gb of memory but only a 60gb hard drive. Is Vista slow and is it stable? I know how stable XP is and it would zoom along on a 1gb laptop. So what are peoples thoughts? I have done a poll to ask the question.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 Vista on a laptop is a pain in the arse I found... the graphics cards in laptops just can't hack it as well as a desktop... Speedwise XP is FAR superior... Vista is just fancy bells at the mo... yes it has some good features, but you will find you will get more performance out of XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 What will the laptop be used for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branners Posted June 15, 2007 Author Share Posted June 15, 2007 What will the laptop be used for? word processing, bit of excel, browsing the internet, ordering food from Tescos, finding the best prices on irons and downloading a few pictures from our digital cameras but doing very little else with them afterwards. JB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daston Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 XP all the way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyT Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 XP Pro for at least another 6 months. To let manufacturers start putting in decent graphics etc. Also 1Gb is the minimum for Vista. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 Either would be fine in that case then but I'd probably go with XP for the speed benefits. By the time XP becomes obsolete the laptop will need replacing anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallace9 Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 None. Window sucks!! I use ubuntu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 PM Henk... He's the man ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 JB, if you want to do it properly, you might want to consider something like nlite which optimizes XP and takes all the crap out of it. Bit of fiddling but it does mean you can streamline the hell out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branners Posted June 15, 2007 Author Share Posted June 15, 2007 JB, if you want to do it properly, you might want to consider something like nlite which optimizes XP and takes all the crap out of it. Bit of fiddling but it does mean you can streamline the hell out of it. my wife currently uses a Windows 98 laptop which must be at least 6 years old, so even cripling XP by removing swap files would still make it quicker!! I have to have a machine thats reliable as I have to support it and deal with the tantrums when it doesnt work. JB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muffleman Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 I have to have a machine thats reliable as I have to support it and deal with the tantrums when it doesnt work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 I have found nlite very stable to be fair, used it on the media centre machine here at home, and a few carpcs. Nlite removes excess modules and drivers, all down to the user... http://www.nliteos.com/ Would work wonders on an older laptop, I used it for the tosh libretto I used for my old emanage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daston Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 if you want stability get Lynix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supragal Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 For GOD sake go XP. I've just gone back to XP, Vista was BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD on my laptop. The struggle to put it back to XP was hideous as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 Kubuntu FTW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daston Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 yep I have dual boot with XP pro and Vista Ultimate 64bit I have yet to install anything on Vista as it hardly ever works or just crashes or has a bug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 So what are peoples thoughts? Buy a MacBook, after a week or so getting use to OSX, your wife will love you for it and wonder why she ever use to use Windoze http://www.apple.com/macbook/macbook.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 Stick an extra gig in and go for Vista. Even the cheapy HP notebooks we have at the moment run Vista fine. I run Vista Business on my office PC here and it's great. The extra security features are very good for preventing novice users from doing something totally stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schtuv Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 Buy a MacBook, after a week or so getting use to OSX, your wife will love you for it and wonder why she ever use to use Windoze Nic - you beat me to an Apple comment On the Microsoft front, I'd say: Get the laptop with Vista, and use the OS downgrade rights to run XP until Vista SP1 is released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mas Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 I know a few people who had so much problems with Vista and it even seems harder to find your way around with it than XP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stupra Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 I have XP Pro on my lap top, runs really well. A mate of mine switched to Vista, then changed back to XP Pro after a couple of weeks as he couldn't get on with it. I'm gonna stay with XP for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 Vista on a laptop is a pain in the arse I found... the graphics cards in laptops just can't hack it as well as a desktop... Speedwise XP is FAR superior... Vista is just fancy bells at the mo... yes it has some good features, but you will find you will get more performance out of XP. My Dell 620 runs Vista Ultimate just fine With 2Gb's of ram and dual core cpu's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 I've heard nothing good about Vista, but lots of bad. I know several people who've decided to uninstall it and go back to XP. I'd avoid it unless it has some feature you actually _need_ otherwise its just an OS and you don't need any unnecessary hassle from it, so why bother Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 My Dell 620 runs Vista Ultimate just fine With 2Gb's of ram and dual core cpu's. Indeed, and you can always just not run the fancy aero glass interface in Vista, in which case it runs just the same as XP anyway. I still prefer Linux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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