Vista On Laptop

[QuckSlvrz]

Hi,
There have a smal query wanted to confirm one thing i have a Hp/Compaq
Laptop 1.7/256 ram/40 Gig HDD / Dvd Reader Cd Writer.

Can Vista be installed on that .

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Thanks

Anuj Bhatia

 

[Gary Mount]

Download and run the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor beta at...
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

Not enough memory.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/evaluate/hardware/vistahardware.mspx

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

You need more RAM as Frank mentioned, the minimum requirements is 512 MBs of
RAM, in your case, more would best, as much as possible. What about the
graphics, is it shared graphics or a dedicated graphics card?
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[Zack Whittaker]

Actually... 256MB can work - I've got one of my 32-bit machines running with
256MB and it still works pretty well - Glass and all. Just disable a few
services and it'll run relatively well )

Vista install won't stop just because you don't have the minimum
requirements - it's just advised that you have certain requirements )

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[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

I am working with what Microsoft says is the minimum requirements, not what
Zack says:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/systemrequirements.mspx

Quote:
The system requirements guidance all along has been 512MB of memory (to run
Vista), but earlier on a lot of people at Microsoft, I think yourself
included, expressed a lot of confidence that the final version should run on
systems with far less memory. Well, we got the final requirements this week,
and it requires 512 megs.
Allchin: If I said it, I was wrong. I don't know if I said it, but if I did
I was wrong. XP definitely works on lower memory. Our performance analysis
today says that on low-memory machines, XP beats Vista, and the more memory
you give it, Vista beats XP, and it's just because we're better at memory
management, but we don't work as good on low (memory PCs) because we just
have more stuff that we've got in the system.
One of the things that's very clear is Vista loves memory, and the more
memory you put, the faster it will (be). It will not only be faster, but it
will learn and get faster over time. So more memory is just a good thing for
it.
http://news.com.com/Allchin+still+worries+about+Vista+-+page+2/2008-1016_3-6076266-2.html?tag=st.num
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[Zack Whittaker]

I'm not saying that 256MB is minimum requirements at all - I'm just saying
that it does actually work.

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that up!

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