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Vista version for laptop?

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moosey

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I've decided to give Vista a try. I have a Dell XPS M140 and was wondering which OEM Vista version to get. I have a 1.86Ghz Pentium M and 1GB RAM.
I only use the laptop for things like word processing and Internet.
I was looking at Home Basic or Business.

First off, I'm guessing Aero isn't going to run on this thing...I think it has graphics media accelerator 900 (whatever the integrated solution that was available). Am I right in assuming this? If so, probably just gonna go Basic.

Second, is the mobility center really worth the extra money? I don't know if the mobility center is just the mobile options in one location or if the Basic version has the same features just not located in one convenient place.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions/input
 
IMO if this is for just surfing the web and office apps, home basic is all you need. t's what I'm running on my laptop and it's a Core Duo t2060 with 1.5GB RAM. it runs smooth on this with it's mighty ATI 200m intergrated video. I don't have Aero since it's Basic, but there is supposed to be a way to enable it if you really want it. Though the ways to do it that I have found don't work.
 
Originally posted by: moosey
I've decided to give Vista a try. I have a Dell XPS M140 and was wondering which OEM Vista version to get. I have a 1.86Ghz Pentium M and 1GB RAM.
I only use the laptop for things like word processing and Internet.
I was looking at Home Basic or Business.

First off, I'm guessing Aero isn't going to run on this thing...I think it has graphics media accelerator 900 (whatever the integrated solution that was available). Am I right in assuming this? If so, probably just gonna go Basic.

Second, is the mobility center really worth the extra money? I don't know if the mobility center is just the mobile options in one location or if the Basic version has the same features just not located in one convenient place.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions/input
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Vista upgrade advisor.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/produc...vista/buyorupgrade/upgradeadvisor.mspx

 
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