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    T500 running windows xp

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by driekus, Dec 1, 2008.

  1. driekus

    driekus Notebook Consultant

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    I have a T500 running windows vista at the moment and am contemplating the downgrade to xp. Has anyone here done the downgrade and if so how do you find the overall performance? Is there anything I should take note of?
    Im aware that the hybrid switching of the graphics card (without reboot) would no longer be possible and this does not concern me at all.
     
    driekus, Dec 1, 2008
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  2. Hrvoje Marin

    Hrvoje Marin Newbie

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    I have a T500 with disk copied from T60, all is fine in XP except TPM, after standby it is not working till reboot.

    Cheers,

    Marin
     
    Hrvoje Marin, Dec 2, 2008
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  3. driekus

    driekus Notebook Consultant

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    TPM im guessing means thinpad power management. This is not much of an issue for me as I disable most power management settings out of habit.
    What about the speed, have you noticed that vista is faster than xp?
     
    driekus, Dec 2, 2008
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  4. StealthTH

    StealthTH Notebook Evangelist

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    I put XP on my T400...and the performance is about the same. I am actually going to switch back to Vista. I don't know if it is my machine specific or not, but XP hangs a lot on my T400 whereas Vista did not and was very fast.
     
    StealthTH, Dec 2, 2008
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  5. peraffi

    peraffi Notebook Geek

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    I don't know if this is a dumb question but I have a dell desktop with xp home on it. I was wondering if I can load that xp into the new t500 I purchased. thanks a bunch
     
    peraffi, Dec 2, 2008
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  6. ali88

    ali88 Notebook Consultant

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    just buy a new oem version from newegg. it will be the safer method.
     
    ali88, Dec 3, 2008
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