Will Vista Run Slow On This Machine?

Question

I've read on various forums about people complaining about XP being much quicker than vista. I have a Celeron 1.7ghz, 512 ram and was looking to install vista home basic or premium, would this be a bad idea?

Answer 1

you might have a chance with home basic but it'll still be slow. you need twice as much ram to run smoothly and definately not a celeron processor. celerons are not very well made and theyre horrible at heavy duty multi tasking. you should downloa and run the vista upgrade advisor, though and see what it says you'd need to do to be vista ready

Answer 2

Not enough information. I suspect that with a Celeron-based motherboard, you're probably using the on-board video and don't have a separate video card. There's no chance at all that the Aero GUI will run. So there'd be no reason to buy the Premium edition. The Basic version would run, but it'd run a lot better with more memory, at least a gigabyte, and if your computer uses part of your main memory for video memory (like my old computer does) then two gigs would be better.

If you can afford a new computer with Vista Premium already installed, I'd go that route. If you can't, then buy more memory and get the Basic version.

Answer 3

vista will run slowly on a machine with that configuration, you also need to consider how old the pc is, its bios might need updating(not very safe thing to do in most cases) and you might have problems with sound / video cards...if your machine is older than 1 year then i would suggest getting a newer model. if its under 1 year old you will need to increase your ram (1gig minimum). the best thing is to download the Windows Vista: Upgrade Advisor....its available free on Microsoft's site. this will tell you what version of vista will run on your pc (if any) it will also tell you what steps can be taken to update any firmware/software/hardware you might need. vista runs well on a fast pc with enough ram and a good video card...it works with integrated audio but wont work with many pci sound cards...even if you decide to install vista you will find that a lot of your favourite progs/ apps wont work or even install. so take your time...you don't need to decide what flavour of vista will run best just yet...you need to find out if it will even support all your hardware..use the tool mentioned above and you will be better equipped to decide for yourself .....if there's anything you don't understand about the results you get with the tool then check back here....there is a lot of good replies to your question so far ( and a few biased replies) hope this helps you out

Answer 4

Chip is fine, but you need to double your ram at a minimum.
Also without knowing your computers other specs, ie. hard drive size and speed, graphics card, etc... I juts cannot tell you with any certanty. But I can say that new computers with Vista already on it run at least a 1.66 Duo processor, have at least 1 and usually 2 G of Ram, have a 100+GB hard drive at 7200 AND have to have the newest and fastest graphics cards.

So, do what I am doing, pass on upgrading your system to vista for now, and just get a new computer later this year.

Answer 5

"i offered a HP pc a MONTH in the past" i do no longer undergo in concepts if it replaced into like this as quickly as I first offered it Bullshit, undeniable and straightforward - stop grinding your awl. Vista runs on a similar velocity, it in simple terms does extra effective than XP. there's a diffused distinction, Vista isn't in basic terms a slower version of XP - vista would not run each driving force in kernel mode (the place it may crash the great kernel if it fails and for this reason the pc) yet somewhat has someone-mode job server which could restart without concern (in particularly some situations) drivers which fail. i could advise which you turn off each and all the graphical bling and in simple terms run it interior the "classic" topic - you lose unquestionably no function it is nicely worth extra effective than cursory point out (flip3d) and that's a touch sparkling interface.

Answer 6

I think you posted this question on Digital Spy Forums

I would say that Home Basic would run without many problems, as it is not much different to XP, although I would recommend another 512MB RAM to make it 1GB. Home Premium is even more demaning on resources, with Aero and stuff, so 1.5GB RAM is recommended.

The processor is fine and assuming your hard drive is 40GB or bigger, that should be ok as well.

Answer 7

Vista Home Basic will run on that machine, probably, but it will be horrendously slow. I'd leave it for now & stick with XP, like most of us are.

Answer 8

Vista is slow on even the latest hardware. Stick to XP, or buy a Mac.

Answer 9

Yeah that wouldn't really run so hot...

You'd be better off to get a dual core 2.0Ghz or higher (Celeron is kind of the bottom end of processors), and at least 1GB of Ram. Though even faster than this would be preferable.

Answer 10

You need at least 1GB of ram a 64 MB or better video card and at least Pentium 4 or dual core processor. To upgrade your memory will be at least 80 dollars and to upgrade the processor means you would have to upgrade your motherboard that's a minimum 100 dollars. New PC start at $400.