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    Windows Vista and 9300 Dell Inspiron

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by charly, Jun 1, 2006.

  1. charly

    charly Newbie

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    I recently purchased a Dell 9300 Inspiron laptop and am now hearing about Windows Vista coming out possibly later this year. Does anyone know if this laptop will be capable of running Vista?? I'm wondering now if I should have waited on purchasing one since Vista will be the latest and greatest and it looks like all the new models will have it either installed or capable. Thanks in advance for any info!!
     
    charly, Jun 1, 2006
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    USAFdude02 NBR Reviewer & Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Depending on the specs of you I9300 you will be able to run the 32-bit version of Vista, because the P-M is not 64-bit capable. So you are in the same boat as me. :p
     
    USAFdude02, Jun 1, 2006
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  3. otaku

    otaku Notebook Deity

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    Download and run the windows vista upgrade advisor. It says my 4yr old dell laptop is ready to run it and which version (second best I think) though of course they don't say how well it'd run which I imagine won't be to well.

    You need 15gigs of free HD space. 64-128mb graphics at least. I'd say 1gig of ram at least though they may recommend less I wouldn't. And a recent cpu at over 1ghz

    Of course you won't be able to run 64bit but then again alot of people won't be able to (amd users and people who buy later than now)

    Personally I plan on buying a machine when the OS ships so I can actually test it out on the hardware with a nice AMD 64bit CPU and a great GPU but this is some time away. Vista doesn't ship till January if everything goes well
     
    otaku, Jun 1, 2006
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  4. J400uk

    J400uk Notebook Consultant

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    9300 will easily fly with vista. Any pc made in the last 4 yrs or so with 512 ram can.
     
    J400uk, Jun 1, 2006
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