My New laptop....Windows Vista?

[jacktesterson]

I just bought a new toshiba laptop...T2400 Centrino Duo, 1 GB Ram, 120 GB HDD, Onboard video 128 MB. Want to try Vista out....got a few questions as I'm a complete newbie to Vista

Will Vista pick up all the drivers in my laptop?

Will it run ok on my system?

Can somebody provide a link to how to setup a dual boot...its been yrs since I've done this and no longer keep up to date as much....I want my windows xp as well.

Last question......Should i download the copy of RC1 off MS or should I get a copy of RC2? MS sent me a key for RC1...will it work with RC2 if I found a copy?

 

[BehindEnemyLines]

Your laptop specs should work perfectly fine. I've a Dell 700m (old enough to not support Aero) that runs Vista RC2 decent enough although not as fast as XP SP2. Vista detected all drivers except for my built-in SD card reader, but then Windows XP couldn't either. So you probably won't know until it's installed.

I don't know if Vista allows you to do NON-DESTRUCTIVE partitioning or not, but I used PartitionMagic to split the main C: into two partitions: Primary (C🙂 > Extended > Logical (E🙂 because my dvd is D: I then install Vista on the Logical drive and dual-boot with XP. You can also download VMWare and try in a virtual machine first.

It's recommended that you leave at least 10GB for Vista although more is better since you've 120GB. Keys from RC1 will work with RC2, but Microsoft (I think) stopped RC2 public download already. You might need to find it *elsewhere*.