Basic Vista question

I have to buy a laptop -- I want to put Vista on it.

What flavor of Vista would you recommend for usability, plus chasing a Vista certification or two?

Thanks!

Obdurate

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CompuTron99

Obdurate wrote: »

I have to buy a laptop -- I want to put Vista on it.

What flavor of Vista would you recommend for usability, plus chasing a Vista certification or two?

Thanks!

Obdurate

If you are going with Vista, and depending on the specs of the notebook - I would go for Vista Business or Ultimate. I would recommend as much memory as possible to either of those.

bgrablin

Forget Vista, if you buy a laptop make sure it comes with the Windows 7 Free upgrade coupon. I'm using the Beta Windows 7 64-bit with 6gb of memory and it is MUCH better than vista.

veritas_libertas

CompuTron99 wrote: »

If you are going with Vista, and depending on the specs of the notebook - I would go for Vista Business or Ultimate. I would recommend as much memory as possible to either of those.

Get one that has a free upgrade to Win7 since it is so close to the release date.

Talic

I agree with getting Windows 7, Vista is old news now. I'd look at getting Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate.

CompuTron99

I was under the impression that Obdurate wanted Vista installed in order to prepare for the certification.

I've been using the RC2 of Windows 7, and I might actually look into a new notebook myself.

JDMurray

I'm upgrading all of my Vista laptops to Windows 7. I've pre-purchased Windows 7 for several desktops and will have it on all new desktops that I buy too. I really like Windows 7. It's much easier to use than Vista and the installation is a dream compared to that of XP.

ipconfig.all

If you are going to buy a Windows Vista copy for certifications I recommend that you buy the Ultimate version of Windows Vista since it has all of the features.

t3ch_guru

Yeah definitely go with Windows 7. If you want to learn vista just get a VM running Windows Vista Ultimate.

Hyper-Me

JDMurray wrote: »

It's much easier to use than Vista and the installation is a dream compared to that of XP.

jamesp1983

t3ch_guru wrote: »

Yeah definitely go with Windows 7. If you want to learn vista just get a VM running Windows Vista Ultimate.

x2. Download VPC or something similar and throw Vista on that.

deyin.chen

I recommand you try windows 7 out. As we know, Vista is really slow, with windows7, you can experience the XP speed and Vista theme.

msteinhilber

deyin.chen wrote: »

As we know, Vista is really slow, with windows7, you can experience the XP speed and Vista theme.

I'll agree with the majority and be sure that whatever you purchase includes the Windows 7 upgrade voucher. But the Vista being slow is non-sense, I like a lot of the improvements in Windows 7 and run it exclusively on all of my machines but I can't say that my Vista experience was terribly slow post SP1.

If you're going to make a purchase prior to Windows 7 shipping with the hardware, I would look for Vista Business (voucher will upgrade to Windows 7 Professional) or Vista Ultimate (voucher upgrades to Windows 7 Ultimate).

JDMurray

msteinhilber wrote: »

But the Vista being slow is non-sense,

I agree. I've never had performance problems with Vista running on modern hardware. People who have insisted on installing Vista on machines over three years old have experienced such problems, but I would expect that from a newer, beefier MS OS. I don't know if W7 is any more tolerant with older hardware, but as it's 80% Vista, I would expect not.

shadown7

JDMurray wrote: »

I agree. I've never had performance problems with Vista running on modern hardware. People who have insisted on installing Vista on machines over three years old have experienced such problems, but I would expect that from a newer, beefier MS OS. I don't know if W7 is any more tolerant with older hardware, but as it's 80% Vista, I would expect not.

I agree 100%... I've never had any major issues with Vista.

I'm running Windows 7 Pro on a Dell Latitude D610 with 512MB of RAM and it works just fine. That laptop is 4 years old.

veritas_libertas

I agree, with modern hardware and a reasonable amount of RAM Vista runs fine. The original systems that came with Vista installed were pretty rediculous. 1GB of RAM on Vista makes the thing run horribly.