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December 3, 2008 at 9:28 pm #159801barney91Member
I’m thinking of giving vista a whirl.
Has anyone done this on 1gb of ram?
If it stutters of struggles I may delay for the 2gb, but if it runs ok I’ll upgrade the OS.
December 3, 2008 at 10:13 pm #173666SquonkMember[quote1228342239=barney91]
I’m thinking of giving vista a whirl.Has anyone done this on 1gb of ram?
If it stutters of struggles I may delay for the 2gb, but if it runs ok I’ll upgrade the OS.
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The video is not really clear, and the poster doesn’t say whether or not he upgraded his RAM, but here’s a YouTube clip showing an NC10 running Vista. From this short film, it looks like the NC10 handles the OS fairly decently (surprisingly), but then, the video doesn’t really show the machine doing very much.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaIvMQMr5_o
EDIT: Bonehead me forgot to add the link the first time.
December 3, 2008 at 10:19 pm #173659barney91MemberSeen that one… I know a lot of people here have tried… just wondered on experiences.
I hear that ‘vista def needs it’. It being the extra gb.
December 3, 2008 at 10:21 pm #173656BritmanMemberwell if rumour are right samsung plan to release the nc11 which is a vista powered machine. Still beat me why.
December 3, 2008 at 10:23 pm #173660barney91MemberI saw this. Slightly diff chipset, wouldn’t expect any performance increase. The case could have a different look though. But still 1gb and vista!
December 3, 2008 at 11:39 pm #173658SamuelMember[quote1228347229=barney91]
I’m thinking of giving vista a whirl.Has anyone done this on 1gb of ram?
If it stutters of struggles I may delay for the 2gb, but if it runs ok I’ll upgrade the OS.
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I bought a laptop a couple of years ago with a Core 2 duo 1.6Ghz processor and 1gig of RAM, Vista Premium pre-installed.
Performance was appalling. Increasing to 2gigs helped a bit but performance was still pretty poor.
Installed XP and never looked back. Much faster, much more compatible with software, much nicer to use (due to familiarity).
My advice is avoid Vista. It’s a bad idea on a decently specced machine, stupid and pointless on a netbook. All my PCs currently run XP and no plans to ‘upgrade’ any of them … when the time comes to choose the OS on a future purchase it won’t be Vista.
December 4, 2008 at 1:41 am #173657techguyoneMemberI’d expect newer machines to run on Vista.
Like it or not, XP is old, Vista now (yea it took a while) is fine as an OS
Lets not forget XP came out in 2001, we’re near as dammit into 2009, time to move on.December 4, 2008 at 8:18 am #173661barney91MemberYep, I’ve been working in the industry for about 3 years now (IT support & now web).
I’ve tried nearly all OS’s with the latest atom processor. XP, Xandross, Ubuntu netbook remix, even OSX. none of them seem right for the platform. XP will run well, but the amount of fiddling required to do so makes it an unsettled option.
Vista, though slated is a good OS, though not as revolutionary as some may hope, its newer & therefore less likely to be hit by a virus (than XP which gets riddled), has better power management and has a strong array of options, its been my desktop OS for a few years now.
We all want WIndows 7 now as we know it will have a small footprint and run well on netbooks when it arrives, until then I’m looking for the more modern option.
So 1gb, does it cope?
December 4, 2008 at 9:30 am #173654jezMemberWorth pointing out that Vista is unsupported by Samsung on the NC10. I don’t think that will bother barney 🙂 but if others are reading this!
Anyone running it with 2gb?
December 4, 2008 at 10:23 am #173655doomageMemberI have Vista business running with 2GB RAM, + a 8 GB SD card used for readyboost. It works great, really smooth, aero & everything. I have it set up as dual boot with XP but hardly use XP anymore. For general usage I can highly recommend it. My advice is to go for Vista, it is XP with polish.
December 4, 2008 at 11:37 am #173662barney91MemberDoes the SD card sticking out not cause problems?
December 4, 2008 at 2:22 pm #173665snowmanMember[quote1228400382=techguyone]
I’d expect newer machines to run on Vista.
Like it or not, XP is old, Vista now (yea it took a while) is fine as an OS
Lets not forget XP came out in 2001, we’re near as dammit into 2009, time to move on.
[/quote1228400382]Indeed – Windows 7 looks a decent choice 🙂
Vista was a bloatware blind alley – Great looking if you have a system with grunt to run it properly, rather worthless otherwise.
There’s never a NEED to move on – Intel and MS have complimentary strategies – Both gain from new OSes, users don’t necessarily and Vista was a good example of that.
For a netbook XP is just fine and for most people it’s a perfectly decent desktop/laptop OS too – If the NC10 had been Ă‚ÂŁ400 with Vista I wouldn’t have bought it…
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December 4, 2008 at 3:18 pm #173663barney91MemberOrdered Crosair 2gb 667…
Guess I’ll find out shortly!
Any advice on V-liting Vista to be less bloaty?
December 5, 2008 at 10:31 am #173664barney91MemberInstalled a v-lited vista (less bloaty – 900mb iso) on the STANDARD 1gb of Ram.
You know what, it seems fine. I’m not noticing any delays or stuttering to speak of. Aero is smooth, web pages load fine. No problem for day to day use. I will report on the performance change for 2gb installed.
So is there a Vista version of the samsung recovery software we get as standard on the NC10? I’d like to make an image of the fully activated / configured setup once i’m complete.
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