[Alfredw1]

i want to get windows vista once it comes out, but i probably wont be able to buy a new laptop for quite sometime after it comes out, do to financial reasons. so what can i do to my curent laptop to be able to run vista. COMPAQ EVO N610C P4 1.8GHZ, 1GIG, 30GHD, DVD, WIRELESS, XP PRO, ATI RADEON MOBILITY 7500 32MB. CANNOT CHANGE VIDEO CARD!!

[Tyler1989]

To run Windows Vista with all features enabled ("get all eye candy") need.

800 Mhz Processor
64 Megs of Dedicated Video Memory
256 Megs of RAM
DVD ROM, may be external


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64 Megs is the cutoff for areo eye candy

Vista will not install on a machine with less than 256 RAM, this is in no way a recommended setting.

Microsoft's official minimum requirements state that you need a 800Mhz processor


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This means your laptop will run Vista rather well from a minimum requirements standpoint but you will not be able to get areo eye candy, meaning no transparent graphics. Do not let anyone tell you different.

[Alfredw1]

hey whats this aero thing? what does it do?

[Tyler1989]

It makes your desktop look pretty


Instead of having a nice transparent themed computer it will look some what like a remixed theme for Windows XP (still bubble themed but silver/grey), and you still can use the Legacy Windows/Classic look of Windows 2000.


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Vista for you should look like this, I've taken these pics myself from my older computer that doesn't fit areo requirments. I will post some newer pics of my current PC that has areo enabled latter.

[IBMan]

Do you think the processor is REALLY a low requirement? I mean, would a system run fairly well on an 800 MHz with 512? or would it be like sticking xp on BARE MINIMUM requirements. My laptop is a 1.2 with 640 megs of ram, 16 MB video, at this point i dont care at all about the transparent aero crap, But I want to take advantage of vista's "new features" I don't know if I want to go ahead as i do have 128 megs more ram than recommended but only 400 mhz more for proc(it's a PIIIM) So i was just curious, tyler, whether you think it would be worth upgrading for me...