my laptop says vista compatible and i bought a windows vista home premium upgrade package. My laptop has a sticker that says vista compatible but i was wonder where out of 100 would it be for running good with the vista installed.
eg. 50/100 = minimum---- 100/100 recommended
The specs are:
intel celeron m410 cpu,
1.46ghz,
1gb ram,
128mb intel gma 950 graphics card,
15.4 inch screen,
wireless built in,
dvd-rw,
usb x3,
500mhz bus speed,
What mark out of a hundred (can be given in %) would it get as being recommended???
2007-12-19 08:42:21 · 7 answers · asked by irish dubliner 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
the laptop is advent 7109
2007-12-19 08:43:16 · update #1
35 my dear boy.
Vista premium requires and recommends 2 gig of ram. You are already at a disadvantage of having a celeron processor. They say it is much improved now, but not really. It is still slow. You should try to dual boot Windows Vista and Windows XP, that way for whatever reason you can use Vista and then use XP for the majority of your computer usage.
I think your laptop specs will run fine as an XP but with Vista and with Premium instead of basic, you are going to be crawling. But if you really want to stick with Vista. Then upgrade the ram to 2 gig and dont use the Aero interface, go to your control panel, system, performance, and set everything to performance based and not look based.
2007-12-19 08:50:53 · answer #1 · answered by Sarah Poke 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the processor is really lacking, it will really hold back the performance of Vista, as well as the graphics card. Remember that Vista will run on 512MB minimum, and i believe MS's claim.
If you get Home Basic it would run alot better.
2007-12-19 16:53:03 · answer #2 · answered by massivematt99 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With only 1 gigabyte of ram installed (remember, Vista likes to eat it's memory...) I can't say much about the performance of your pc. I feel like it could be around 60 on your scale if you're running multiple programs. If you have the option of adding ram, do it and save yourself the pain of running Vista with minimal resources.
2007-12-19 16:48:31 · answer #3 · answered by ɹǝsn ooɥɐʎ ǝɯos ʇsnɾ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you should have more then 1gb of ram
and 256mb or over 256 md of graphics G force or Nvidia
it requires a lot of memory and a lot of graphics .
get some upd grades on teh ram and graphics fisrts then try it.
the best thing to do is to buy a laptop with vista already isntalled in.
hope it helps
2007-12-19 18:29:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1/100 vista was designed for the core duo processor it'll be as slow as molasses on a winter morning on that machine plus you won't be able to use any of the fancy eye candy that is on vista.
my recommendation is to go to ubuntu linux which will even smoke xp on that machine and it has all the eye candy vista does if your video chip can run it.
2007-12-19 16:55:32 · answer #5 · answered by james B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It should be ok. My laptop runs it fine with the minimum requirements. Im no expert so i cant give u a number.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/homepremium/default.mspx
Except I have about 1.8GB of RAM. But it shows it only uses about 44%, and thats less than 1GB
2007-12-19 16:53:21 · answer #6 · answered by Flash Funk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont know but go to the nvidia website and check follow this link and in the nvidia it will show you ontop of it. good luck
2007-12-19 16:49:07 · answer #7 · answered by Ernest 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋