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    Should I install Vista PHE on my Acer Aspire 5685 over Win XP MCE?? Pros/Cons

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by jpe20, Apr 21, 2007.

  1. jpe20

    jpe20 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi folks,

    Just in a bit of a quandary at the moment as I received my Vista Premium Home edition dvds from moduslink for my Acer laptop this week. I am debating with myself whether to bother doing this upgrade or not at the moment due to some people saying it ain't worth the hassle.

    Everything works fine on the laptop now in XP and the spec of the laptop is more than capable of running Vista (2GB RAM, 160GBHDD, C2D T7200, GeForce Go 7600).

    Main thing I wanna know is the pros and cons of doing this upgrade, the accessibility features for partially sighted people under Vista and any battery life issues.

    Any tips appreciated...

    Jools

    PS (Laptop is Acer Aspire 5685WLMi (yeah that 700quid one from Comet a few weeks back!).

    PPS Is there a time limit on installing this upgrade?
     
    jpe20, Apr 21, 2007
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  2. CountAltec

    CountAltec Notebook Guru

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    Earlier in Jan I installed Vista Ultimate 64bit on my Acer Aspire5112. It has an AMD Turion X2, 2GB Ram, 160 GB HDD and ATI X1600 graphics card.

    After using Vista for 2 days, I uninstalled it. You should be able to install Vista on another partition and dual boot with XP, but as you mentioned that you have an upgrade version I'm not sure if you can do that.

    I found Vista to be a bit of a pain. First of all the new User Control tool... is a pain in the arse as it keeps popping up so I ended up disabling it. With MSN messenger, Open Office and Firefox running, Vista consumed more than 1 GB of RAM. With regards to speed, I think XP is a bit faster on my machine.

    IMO, if all works with XP don't bother upgrading. If you want to give Vista a shot, go ahead but make sure you have backed up all you data and get ready to relax with a cup of tea or beer while the install works. I'm really not sure if the 32 bit Vista would be faster and less of a resource hog.
     
    CountAltec, Apr 21, 2007
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