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    Question XP on a 1530

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by jonnyques, Jan 28, 2008.

  1. jonnyques

    jonnyques Newbie

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    Hi I know I read some threads on this before.
    I want to know if XP will run fine on the 1530? Are drivers available for all the hardware? I think theer was a link, please post if you have it.

    I just received my new 1530 with Vista Home Premium. I bought this laptop to run one main application, Quickbooks. Well guess what? Quickbooks isnt supported on Vista. The support just tells you to buy the new QB 2007. IF I put XP on the laptop QB will run.

    With this being the new toy, I want everything to work. I dont know if I will lost any of the funcanality of the laptop with XP.

    Any advice would be great
    Thanks
     
    jonnyques, Jan 28, 2008
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  2. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Greg, Jan 28, 2008
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  3. fullycharged

    fullycharged Notebook Guru

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    i had a similar problem i needed to run ansys but it wasnt vista compatible so i installed xp in a dual boot configuration :) after hours of mucking about every things running fine i use vista most of the time. id say install xp and keep vista so you can dual boot then you wont lose none of your vista functions
     
    fullycharged, Jan 28, 2008
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  4. vananhdo

    vananhdo Notebook Enthusiast

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    if you use the dual boot it will consume a large amount of hard drive space. and then everytime you boot the computer, it will ask you which partition or operation you want to use right?
    no offend, but I take that as a disadvantage. TT_TT
     
    vananhdo, Feb 16, 2008
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