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I just got a new Toshiba laptop for Christmas, and it came with a FREE upgrade to Windows Vista Home Premium (yay). Is Vista good enough to write over my Media Center (XP) install permanently? Or should I keep the XP Windows files? Is it possible to 100% get rid of Vista if I don't like it?
How is Vista for those of your who use it?
How is Vista for those of your who use it?
Toshiba M115 ● 1.49 GB DDR-2 RAM ● 1.6 GHz Centrino Duo ● 80GB HDD ● Windows XP Media Center Edition
good but dont switch to it until you have to
you most likely wont get aero on your laptop and vista will be slow (general rule is 1gb of ram in vista runs the same as 256 does in XP)
you most likely wont get aero on your laptop and vista will be slow (general rule is 1gb of ram in vista runs the same as 256 does in XP)
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Acutally, if it says free upgrade to vista premuim, you'll most likely get aero. I agree with jbennet. Don't upgrade for a few months, and before you should upgrade to 2G of RAM. Just wait for them to get the biggest bugs fixed, then upgrade.
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what i meant was not that aero wasnt included, but that the laptops built in video card is probably not good enough to run it.
Yeah and I agree, wait for SP1 to come out
Yeah and I agree, wait for SP1 to come out
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Originally Posted by jbennet 
what i meant was not that aero wasnt included, but that the laptops built in video card is probably not good enough to run it.
Yeah and I agree, wait for SP1 to come out
I think you should probably try it if and only if you can get back to XP.
Check the small print in case theres a thing where e.g vista is a one way trip or you have to upgrade before a set date
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I just got a new Toshiba laptop for Christmas, and it came with a FREE upgrade to Windows Vista Home Premium (yay). Is Vista good enough to write over my Media Center (XP) install permanently? Or should I keep the XP Windows files? Is it possible to 100% get rid of Vista if I don't like it?
How is Vista for those of your who use it?
I used Vista a week & it have many probelms. Now I re-install XP & wait for the upgrade service pack.
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As for the upgrade question, it IS a one way trip. Once you upgrade XP to Vista, there's no coming back to XP short of reformatting.
Edit: I just read up some more on this. Apparently it IS possible to revert back, but there are major problems in XP then. Suggestion is to do a clean reinstall of XP.
Edit: I just read up some more on this. Apparently it IS possible to revert back, but there are major problems in XP then. Suggestion is to do a clean reinstall of XP.
Last edited by goldeagle2005; Feb 17th, 2007 at 11:40 pm.
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