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Would you recommend Vista or XP for THIS laptop?

It could run Vista.

I've worked on laptops with only 512mb running Vista basic recently, but they were painfully slow.

XP would probably be better on that laptop though.
 
The processor is more than good enough. For office, email etc, 1Gb is more than enough for Vista as well. I've used Vista on a 1GB laptop for months using productivity apps, email, web browsing etc, and it never once approached even 750mb of memory usage, there was little no no swapping etc. 512mb was a *very different* story though. All that really matters is that you dont consistently max out the memory and force it to swap, and thats just not going to happen with 1gb unless youre gaming.

For gaming on the other hand, I highly recommend 2gb for Vista or even XP at this point.

Unless it has it's own video card of 256MB, not an on-board one, I'd go with XP.
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Thats really only relevant if he's 3d gaming, and in that case, he'd want 2gb anyway.
 
i asked the question out of curiosity really, because for the last three months, i've been running vista ult. it's been pretty good. boots pretty fast. just wondering if people my vouch for xp. it's lighter in resources, but less features.

does superfetch benefit a system like mine, because it has a 5400RPM HDD drive and there's only 1 GB of ram?

how about readyboost? i have a 1gb stick available.
 
Originally posted by: konigswagger
i asked the question out of curiosity really, because for the last three months, i've been running vista ult. it's been pretty good. boots pretty fast. just wondering if people my vouch for xp. it's lighter in resources, but less features.

does superfetch benefit a system like mine, because it has a 5400RPM HDD drive and there's only 1 GB of ram?

how about readyboost? i have a 1gb stick available.
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Superfetch will certainly show plenty of benefit with a "mere" 1gb. The readyboost stick certainly wont hurt, but dont expect anything massive. Ram is disgustingly cheap nowadays - Vista runs excellently under 1GB (as long as youre not gaming), but more ram is never a bad thing, so if you're looking for a performance boost, thats where you should upgrade.
 
I run Vista Home Edition in my laptop with 1GB RAM; find it quite slow. My recommendation is XP with 1GB; however its good to know that you found Vista to load up quite fast.
 
Originally posted by: DanMart25
I run Vista Home Edition in my laptop with 1GB RAM; find it quite slow. My recommendation is XP with 1GB; however its good to know that you found Vista to load up quite fast.
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If youre finding it slow with 1gb, it probably has a lot more to do with the processor than with the memory. Booting up might be a different story, but once its up, I've never found it to clog up all my memory unless I was gaming.
 
My laptop has similar specs and vista is actually pretty fast. I may upgrade to 2 gb eventually. The only reason I haven't done so yet is because both memory slots are being used by 2 512MB sticks.
 
A couple months back I tried out a Fujitsu A6025 (1.86 Core Duo, 1 Gb RAM, 5400rpm HDD ) that came with VISTA. It did not not run VISTA well but was dynamite with WINXP. Your system is similar except you hopefully have at least the 965 IGP (versus the 945 IGP for A6025). (The 945 IGP gave a VISTA video performance score of 3.1 whereas you should see a VISTA calculated video performance score of at least 3.4 - 3.5).

Bottom line is that, without upgrading the hardware, if you go with XP then you will not be dissatisfied with system responsiveness, but if you go with VISTA then you most likely will find that you bought a new computer that performs responsively like an outdated machine.
 
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