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CaptainColourful:
--- Quote from: "hobbit" ---Yes Vista is memory hungry, the dell I got for my daughter only had half a gig mem in.
Went out and fitted a 1 gig mem upgrade in it, half the price of what dell wanted, and a higher spec chip
Big difference, told her to let me know when she wants the other gig getting, and will give it another boost
Vista upgrades are all well, but there is still a lot of software incompatibilty problems, for example I have ntl/virgin internet and there own software is still not compat with vista
It does a check on your system before you upgrade, and will tell you what software/hardware is not compat with it, It looks good, but I think another 12 months and they may have it up to a usable level
Might well be worth checking with ms to see if there is an online check that can be done before you fork out for the upgrade, you might not want to if you have to change some hardware or bin some of the software you like/have to use
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Tryhttp://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/upgradeadvisor.mspx
Range Rover Blues:
I had a b***er of a job finding one old enough to have a serial port on it for some of my diagnostic tools.
Fortunatley the fix-it fairies came up trumps.
hobbit:
--- Quote from: "CaptainColourful" ---
--- Quote from: "hobbit" ---Yes Vista is memory hungry, the dell I got for my daughter only had half a gig mem in.
Went out and fitted a 1 gig mem upgrade in it, half the price of what dell wanted, and a higher spec chip
Big difference, told her to let me know when she wants the other gig getting, and will give it another boost
Vista upgrades are all well, but there is still a lot of software incompatibilty problems, for example I have ntl/virgin internet and there own software is still not compat with vista
It does a check on your system before you upgrade, and will tell you what software/hardware is not compat with it, It looks good, but I think another 12 months and they may have it up to a usable level
Might well be worth checking with ms to see if there is an online check that can be done before you fork out for the upgrade, you might not want to if you have to change some hardware or bin some of the software you like/have to use
--- End quote ---
Tryhttp://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/upgradeadvisor.mspx
--- End quote ---
Thats the one, could save you a lot of hassle, Vista is very picky on what it will play with
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