For a bit of a laugh really, as I am at home with not much to do and I fancy a challenge. I decided to install vista on the second oldest computer in the house, so the spec of the laptop is:

CPU: Pentium 3 1GHZ

Ram: 512MB

HD: 100GB

Video: Onboard SIS630

Sound: Onboard SIS

LAN: Onboard SIS

Vista version used was Vista Business, so did it work.

Do I take the HDD size as a typo Manny?? :eek:

Steve

oops, yes 100GB.

Phew! Doesn't sound like it's an original part of the laptop spec, so my vote will stand

What make and model laptop, out of interest?

Steve

Its an old Dixons special, originally had a Celeron cpu and 20GB hard drive.

Gericom Overdose 2200T.

Ah right - I suppose it deserves to be mis-treated then

I'd much prefer to run a copy of W2K or a slimmed XP on something of that spec, and watch it spin along quite happily. Can see why you'd be want to find out what happened though

Steve

Not sure I'd ever be bored enough to install Vista, but well done for the research, Manny!

Phil

The install can take a good while, that's for sure. You wonder what the hell it's doing at times, and then you realise! :P

Steve

I don't know much about Vista but I will say it worked.

This is coming from someone who got XP Pro onto a Pentium 2 266 lappie with about 64mb of ram.

Wow you must be bored.. or just have far too much free time on your hands. :P

So then. Just how dreadful is it...?

So then. Just how dreadful is it...?

We might have to wait several days for the results...

and thats if it doesnt ask him to reboot

Well,

As 13 people have guessed correctly, yes it does run but is very slow.

The vista system rating has a score of 1.0, no suprise really. It was let down by the gaming performance score, all the others were around 1.5.

It takes about 5 mins to boot to a useable desktop, and this is with aero disabled and no other software installed. Upon shutdown it installed 39 updates and that took 3 hours to complete. I dont think I'll tackle SP1 as that may take all night.

Driver wise. the onboard lan worked first time but VGA and sound required the use of XP drivers because their are no vista drivers for them. Apart from that all the other drivers installed were correct, inserting a PCMCIA wireless card got wireless working without a hitch.

As a stopgap emergency system it will work, but very slow.

The vista system rating has a score of 1.0, no suprise really. It was let down by the gaming performance score, all the others were around 1.5.

I can never understand why it doesn't take an average of the scores when the tests run, rather than assessing the machine on the basis of its apparently weakest component :confused:

Steve

Oh yes and to install, it took about 4 hours which is the longest I have ever seen.

Is it worth upgrading from XP Pro to Vista? I mostly use my computer/laptop at home for photos/music/website editing and that's pretty much it. Does Vista need loads of ram? I don't think XP is truly happy until you've got 2Gb in there!

I can never understand why it doesn't take an average of the scores when the tests run, rather than assessing the machine on the basis of its apparently weakest component :confused:

Steve

STOP THE PRESS - 'M$ in biased benchmark result shocker!'

I had a trial of vista before it came out on this comp, I was impressed at first but then got fed up with the lack of drivers etc and nothing I had was compatible! computer ran great though on a 2.8ghz Pentium D over clocked to a 3.3 with 3GB Kingston ram and a 512mg graphics had a sound card for the mixing desk to plug in along with surround sound until I bust it :/

I did the opposite the other day. I installed Windows 98 SE on my 2GHz quad core Intel system.

The number next to "minutes remaining" would have been more accurate if it said "seconds remaining" instead :D

Haha, that's more like it Xav!

Hmmm, tempting :rubchin:

:coder:

Steve

Whoops I didnt get the thread!!

I just saw the poll on the homepage

My Mates run Vista on 512MB RAM and it wasn't pretty but it ran and found all the hardware devices.

at all of you!

Is it worth upgrading from XP Pro to Vista? I mostly use my computer/laptop at home for photos/music/website editing and that's pretty much it. Does Vista need loads of ram? I don't think XP is truly happy until you've got 2Gb in there!

Not worth it at all IMO :thumbdwn: