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    Vista Home Premium

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by wdstan, May 28, 2007.

  1. wdstan

    wdstan Newbie

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    I put Vista on my T-41 (2373) But am having a video card problem, some functions will not run due vid card not big enough, ? can this be replaced with a new card and if so, How? Or am I S... out of luck.
     
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    cayden Notebook Guru

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    cayden, May 28, 2007
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    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    There are a very small number notebooks where the GPU is upgradeable. They are mostly gaming laptops which would not include the T41. You have the 7500 card? It is not a DirectX 9 card which is probably why they visual enhancements do not run. If turned off, I see no reason why it won't run. I had the Vista Beta running fine on my T42.
     
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    Solidgun Notebook Consultant

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    Hopefully, you didn't buy Vista Premium just for your laptop alone. You will have better performance with XP as running Vista with its "improvements" turned off will give you nothing more than XP features.....with slower processes.
     
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    cayden Notebook Guru

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    This is not true. Although there are a lot of flashy features added; there are also many other things that Vista brings to the table where XP lacks. One of the most important is in the security model Vista employs... it's much more difficult for spyware and viruses to lurk unnoticed. The quick search features are also a huge usuability improvement. There are lots of things about Vista that distinguish it from XP and just turning off the Aero interface does not make it "nothing more than XP..."

    I am not a Microsoft fan boy (not by any means); but it's not fair to just lump all of Vista's features into the interface lift, there's a lot that has changed and a lot of it is for the better. Although if they would just switch to a BSD core like MacOS X they wouldn't have to do nearly as much work and for the most part it would be a lot better to work with.
     
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    Solidgun Notebook Consultant

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    Thx for the correction Cayden. I guess I just paraphrased what one of the people from Vista team said, and only version of Vista I was used to was the Enterprise edition (which is fairly limited). But I am not familiar with Vista yet as I still use XP and Mac OS X on all my machines.

    I am not a fan of Microsoft either, but they pay me every two weeks :D
     
    Solidgun, May 29, 2007
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