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10-23-2007, 04:54 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 19,816
|  Vista Home Basic on this PC anyone?
I'm planning on running Vista Home Basic here.... just for the heck of it... plus i got the disk for free... so i'll make sure it works  | 
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10-23-2007, 05:55 PM
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Wizard Techie Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 4,539
| Re: Vista Home Basic on this PC anyone?
It'll run, just not too great. Be prepared for quite a bit of lag. Even without Aero, Vista Basic is still a resource hog. I remember the low end PCs HP and Compaq would have it installed on. They'd be probably twice as fast as yours and Vista Home would still stutter A LOT!
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10-23-2007, 05:57 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 19,816
| Re: Vista Home Basic on this PC anyone?
ok thanks man... but i'm getting an extra 512mb for it.. still a no then right?
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10-23-2007, 10:14 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: C:\Windows\System32 Posts: 25,661
| Re: Vista Home Basic on this PC anyone?
Home Basic will be fine. The CPU is a bit slow. If it even meets requirements.
It does just barely meet them. The 40GB HDD will fill up real fast. I would suggest something with some more storage.
I run Home basic on my laptop which is a AMD Turion 1.8 with 1GB of RAM and it is fine. No stutters but it isnt used for any gaming.
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10-23-2007, 10:27 PM
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Retired. Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Los Angeles, California Posts: 8,090
| Re: Vista Home Basic on this PC anyone?
Tell us how it runs and how you like it.
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10-24-2007, 08:47 PM
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Newb Techie Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk United Kingdom Posts: 6
| Re: Vista Home Basic on this PC anyone?
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Originally Posted by jorsoft03 It'll run, just not too great. Be prepared for quite a bit of lag. Even without Aero, Vista Basic is still a resource hog. I remember the low end PCs HP and Compaq would have it installed on. They'd be probably twice as fast as yours and Vista Home would still stutter A LOT! | Vista Home Basic doesn't have aero (but Home Premium and all the other versions do). I have Vista Home Premium on my laptop (specs in sig) runs quite well, takes a little longer to load up then CP, but once at the desktop its fast. With Aero and the gagets Vista is using about 38% of my Laptops 2GB RAM.
For best performance in Vista many people recommend atleast 1GB and definately 2GB ior more f gaming or usinng memory intensive programs.
Hope this helps a bit. 
Last edited by Webhead; 10-24-2007 at 08:49 PM.
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10-24-2007, 09:07 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 19,816
| Re: Vista Home Basic on this PC anyone?
ya.. i sorta knew about all the features... i studied it hard... and decided to go with Home Basic... but i lost the key!! OMFG...
so i put XP... i think I'll stick with it until i get my new PC... Topic Closed.. would have been great to try it out... | |
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