Vista Noob said:I have a Toshiba notebook that is Vista "compatible" (I've run the
advisor).
I only have the recovery disc.
Will the existing system qualify for upgrading, or will I have to have
a disc?
My thinking is that I'll be fine without the disc.
You can run the upgrade from within the OS itself and it should work
Caution: Just because a machine is Vista compatable does not necessarily
mean Vista will run well.
I had a core duo Vista laptop with Vista Home Premium (it now has XP Pro),
my advice, don't mess with a working XP system.
ONLY if you must get new hardware should you downgrade to Vista.
Vista said:I know that. My notebook is my backup machine... and so many of my
friends now have Vista machines that I'm not able to help them without
having a Vista machine to work from while I help (over the phone).
I have a True Image backup, in case things go awry.
If your primary machine has enough juice... RAM, HD, etc... you might
consider running Vista in a virtual machine. Yes, you would have to buy
a full install copy of Vista, but then you could leave your laptop alone
and not have to worry about whether it would run Vista acceptably.
I had a core duo Vista laptop with Vista Home Premium (it now has XP Pro),
my advice, don't mess with a working XP system.
ONLY if you must get new hardware should you downgrade to Vista.
If your primary machine has enough juice... RAM, HD, etc... you might
consider running Vista in a virtual machine. Yes, you would have to buy
a full install copy of Vista, but then you could leave your laptop alone
and not have to worry about whether it would run Vista acceptably.
That's something to think about. It's definitely got "enough juice".
Not Me said:More than half the people I talk to that use Vista tell me it is NOT an
upgrade from XP, it's just a PITA.
But if you NEED something Vista actually offers that is not available in
XP, go for it.
Strongly advise you not to upgrade on a Toshiba laptop.
Strongly advise you not to upgrade on a Toshiba laptop.
Your advice is meaningless/worthless unless you provide particulars -
and I don't mean hearsay.
If your primary machine has enough juice... RAM, HD, etc... you might
consider running Vista in a virtual machine. Yes, you would have to buy
a full install copy of Vista, but then you could leave your laptop alone
and not have to worry about whether it would run Vista acceptably.
That's something to think about. It's definitely got "enough juice".
You are a knob.
If the laptop doesn't have at least 2GB of RAM, dual core and a nice video
chipset with dedicated memory, all upgrading to Vista will do is show the
user how slow Vista real is.
Yeah... if all you want to do is have access to a vanilla copy of Vista to
support your users, then a VM may be the way to go. You won't be doing any
hardware support in that scenario, but I don't get the feeling that's what
you're looking to achieve.
In any case, good luck!
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