vista + toshiba m200

[Jume]

im getting this tablet pc in a couple of days, and been wondering about
trying to put vista on it cause the new tablet functions and extended power
saving options (among other things)

anyone did try it over here? any hardware/driver problems i should be aware
of?

 

[Teodor]

How can I get rid of the annoying frames in WMP11 when I click on some song
and then appears frame with points and in windows explorer too on the
selected icons and buttons? Thanks in advance!

 

[Paul Smith]

im getting this tablet pc in a couple of days, and been wondering about
trying to put vista on it cause the new tablet functions and extended
power saving options (among other things)

anyone did try it over here? any hardware/driver problems i should be
aware of?

I'd recommend most people to stick with XP Tablet on the M200.

I use Windows Vista on mine, but there are pain points.

1) nVidia do not support the graphics card. Using hacked drivers it is
possible to get some versions working on it, however Aero flickers on and
off under heavy load, and using Basic results in the driver crashing
sometimes when using pen flicks or moving windows around too fast.

2) No full screen media playback, video driver doesn't support acceleration
and so it murders performance.

3) The individual sleep and hibernate modes don't work right, the screen
won't wake up after sleep, and it can lose its resolution from hibernate.
Hybrid sleep works OK.

I'm pretty sure they all stem from an unsupported graphics card (GeForce GO
5200) and possibly a BIOS in need of update (which will probably never
happen).

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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