My Vostro 1400 shipped today so I should have it Monday. I was only able to get Vista Basic on it (couldn't upgrade to Vista Premium). I have an XP Pro disc lying aroung so I could wipe out the Vista install and just do a clean install of XP Pro. What's everyone's experiences with Vista Basic. Should I just give it a try for a while and see what I think? I'll be using this laptop to do photo editing with Photoshop...any suggestions?
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It's crap, stay with XP
with Basic all the small advantages Vista had over XP are gone, just the bloaty slowness remains -
Did they not let you upgrade to Premium? I think I'd do CSR roulette until I found someone who would let me. Many others on this forum seem to have been successful with getting a Premium upgrade.
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I must have spoken to 5 or 6 CSR's and had online chats with two more and it was a no go with all of them. Each and everyone told me that Home Premium was not an option. I even spoke with one of their supervisors and was told the same thing. I tried this all through the time my 1400 was in production. Oh well...I guess I'll be better off with XP.
I do have another question though. I also have a copy of XP Media Center Edition lying around. Would this be a better choice than XP Pro?? -
XP MCE pretty much is XP Pro with the media center extras.
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Well, I also went with Basic and will give it a shot. I really believe that the only differences between it and Premium is the Aero fanciness (oooooo glass!), Media Center (That I don't need), and I believe that Premium supports more Ram than Basic (8gb vs. 16gb?) Something like that.... If I hate it? XP here I come! (again!)
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make it dual boot
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boxcar_racer821 Notebook Consultant
lmao I got xp home with my vostro 1500...I checked online for the differences between it and pro, and I wasnt convinced that I'd use any of those extra features. Plus I saved like $60, and thats the most important thing for me
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Vista Basic is quite possibly the worst OS ever created, it's bull**** that they even made it.
It makes Windows ME look good. -
Well, maybe I'll upgrade...idk, I just don't see me ever using the Premium features... Just seem like resource hogs...
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Basic does have Aero, just not Aero glass(the semi-transparent thing that works 10% of the time) -
theres no difference in RAM, both only support up to 4gb(both are 32bit) -
Thanks everyone for the opinions. I think I'll just hose my Vista Basic and install XP Pro. I'm assuming I'll just have to grap some drivers from Dell's site?
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Getting Premium on a 1500 was no problem when I tried with Dell. I just called up, ask for it, paid $29 and got it. Getting Premium on a 1400 was impossible for me in ~6 hours on the phone with Dell (mostly on hold). At that point I just gave up trying, so my 1400 will show up with Vista Basic on it. I have an unused XP Pro license, though I suspect I will just stick with Basic on the 1400. Vista Basic is not that bad anyway, there is a lot of misinformation on it.
Other than copycat "BASIC SUCKS" reasons, why do you want to use XP Pro instead of Home Basic? What features from XP Pro will you lose in Basic? -
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it might not be as easy as you think...... to install XP, you'll need to slip-stream sata drivers to install the disc... then you'll need to find the appropirate drivers for xp
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basic is much better than ME.
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Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake
This shows some features only in Home Premium and above: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/footnotes.mspx
This is the comparison of each edition, showing how little Basic has: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/choose.mspx -
Most of the software out there (specially the ones used for academic purposes) are not comptabile with Vista. But, unfortunately my 1400 does come with Vista Basic.
I'll leave no stone unturned to put XP on it
Experiences with Vista Basic
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