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    m1210 upgrade from vista basic to vista ultimate?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by mooses9, Dec 2, 2008.

  1. mooses9

    mooses9 Notebook Guru

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    i recently bought a laptop off a private owner it came with windows xp media edition, and i upgraded from there to vista home basic, and the laptop runs VERY well with it, however when i got the laptop it came with 1gb of ram and i upgraded to 4gb of ram and since i am using the 32bit OS, i am only accessing 3.25gb of the total 4gb of ram.

    my question was do you guys think its worth the jump to vista ultimate, will i see a performance gain from the .75 of ram that ultimate will utilize that the 32bit isnt? also will my processor be utilized better from ultimate

    my laptop specs are

    m1210
    t5600 centino
    4gb ram
    80gb hd
    nvidia geforce go 7400
    vista home basic

    also would ultimate be even more of a resource hog than hom basic? i do think myself that really vista doesnt seen to bog my m1210 down at all, it runs really fast no hang ups or anything of the such, so i dont really know that vista is a huge resource hog, or it is and the m1210 just manages its resources very well?

    could i see worse performance with ultimate?
     
    mooses9, Dec 2, 2008
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  2. andyasselin

    andyasselin Notebook Deity

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    why not just upgrade vista home basic 64 bit

    vista ultmiated has more feature stuff and areo yes it be bit slower then

    also you can not do in place upgrade from 32 bit to 64 bit edtion

    also vista ultmated has few add feature games stuff not in home prem or home basic

    but home prem is come in 32 bit and 64 bit same key just use diffent media
     
    andyasselin, Dec 2, 2008
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