Installing Vista on 'older' systems?

[Doris Day]

Doris Day wrote:

I have no need to upgrade this 6 year old system. It runs quite fine
using Ubuntu.

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Then why are you here?
Frank

To quote Anderson Cooper of CNN ... "keeping them honest". Now, why are
you here? You're obviously too computer illiterate to be of any help to
anyone.

Love and Kisses,
Doris

 

[Frank]

To quote Anderson Cooper of CNN ... "keeping them honest". Now, why are
you here? You're obviously too computer illiterate to be of any help to
anyone.

Love and Kisses,
Doris

Oh Doris, you little open sores linux troll, I don't think Rock would
appreciate such an unlady like remark from your pretty little mouth.
It's a very dishonest and stupid statement, don't you think?
(snort)
Frank

 

[Doris Day]

Oh Doris, you little open sores linux troll, I don't think Rock would
appreciate such an unlady like remark from your pretty little mouth.
It's a very dishonest and stupid statement, don't you think?
(snort)
Frank

Frankie Dear,

You really should stop snorting in public. I know you're from Virginia and
all, but please, stop acting like a pig.

Love and Kisses,
Doris

 

[Frank]

Frank wrote:




Frankie Dear,

You really should stop snorting in public. I know you're from Virginia and
all, but please, stop acting like a pig.

Love and Kisses,
Doris

Wrong time of the month for you Doris? Bad hair day or is the "change"
simply getting you down?
Buy a new dress, have your hair done. Certainly unemployment in the
silicon valley can't last that long.
Or can it?
(snort, burp, chuckle)
Frank

 

[LG]

Wrong time of the month for you Doris? Bad hair day or is the "change"
simply getting you down?
Buy a new dress, have your hair done. Certainly unemployment in the
silicon valley can't last that long.
Or can it?
(snort, burp, chuckle)
Frank

Typical male idiot.

 

[Frank]

Frank wrote:




Typical male idiot.

You didn't even have to duck to miss that one did you?
(smirk)
Frank

 

[Bill]

Don't feel bad Sweet Doris, Frank has issues. He asks everyone "Why are
you here". It is not as if we were all trying to use the rest room at
the same time. He loves to make everyone feel warm and fuzzy and to help
them with their problems. Shhhhh... He doesn't realize that the problem
is the operating system. All you can do is patch a little here and a
little there, but then it will just break somewhere else. He thinks that
he is a policeman in charge of keeping out the ...how shall I put this
delicately...the street trash..But we all have to make a living, selling
our bodies for our Linux high. And we get a little discount for every
new customer...and don't forget the bonus points. I already have enough
for a toaster. He just doesn't understand.
Love and kisses,
Bill

 

[Paul-B]

Does anyone have any experience of installing Vista on older machines
and if so, how you found it?

I have a couple of old base units here on which I am considering
installing Vista and was wondering if anyone else had got Vista
working 'well'* on similar machine specs:

Athlon 1000/1800
512MB RAM
32MB Geforce 2 MX

Now I realise that I woudn't get Aero working on these but if I
changed the graphics card to a 256MB Radeon 9550 and perhaps doubled
the RAM - how do you think these two machines would cope with Vista
(inc Aero?), given the processors are quite old (relatively speaking).

People's experiences of running Vista on machines with 512MB of RAM
would also be of interest to me..

(*i.e. in real life, not just meeting MS's miminum operating
requirements!)

The reason I am asking is that I need a new monitor and am trying to
decide between upgrading one or both of these machines or buying a
complete system from Dell (something like a Core2duo 4300, 1024MB RAM
and a 256MB Geforce 7300) rather than just a monitor.

Alternatively, if one/both of these machines could be upgraded
sucessfully - that would be a lot cheaper than buying a new base
unit.. however, these two machines are getting slightly 'long in the
tooth' and if upgrading them isn't going to be of much benefit, then
a new system would seem to be the way to go..

While I would like to 'experience' Aero/Vista as you can probably
gather, I'm not a 'gamer' and just need some machines for
office/internet use + watching video etc..

Any advice welcome.

Regards
Sunil

I know it's not really an answer, but why do you want Vista? XP Pro
will do everything you want and will run ok on your machines.

 

[Mac G]

But the performance is still less than XP at 512MB and even XP with 1GB.


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[Guest]

I got 4+ on everything except video, but it's still slower than XP at all
levels, still doesn't offer anything of benefit, isn't worth the time/cost
to change.

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[Trevor Best]

Does Vista block out your viruses?

Probably, it got defender bundled with it FWIW.

It might even direct you to newer threads to respond to too