TX 850 and Vista Premium

I jsut got a TX850 laptop yesterday and was wondering if anyone ahs any insight on how and if it will run windows premium. While it is a "Vista capable" and "Vista Premium Ready", I don't know if thats jsut a marketing thing to say oh yeah it'll run it, but it'll be slow as a snail. I do get the free upgrade to VIsta Business (which i assume incorporates the aqua interface since its above the home premium level). Now according to my research a dedicated graphics card (or 128 mb wwdm (or wmmd?)) are required, is the intel graphics card capable? Could someone who ahs either tried the windows vista premium beta give me feedback or what your thouhgts are on this.

I jsut spend 3200$ cdn on this thing and i know I will def want to upgrade to vista since its a free upgrade but.

 

It will work. When you put Vista on your machine, one of the first programs it runs is an optimizer which tells you where you stand on the Vista benchmark test before it loads anything. Your TX will score highly on that only getting penalized for RAM probably. I had an SZ-360 with 1 gig of RAM and it scored much higher than I thought it would on the benchmark and accepted all of Vista ultimate. It also was penalized however for the RAM though I really did not see an effect on the performance. As for all of the other hoopla you have heard. I really did not see an great effect on my SZ's battery. I would expect a similar result on your TX. You will be fine with Vista.

 

I am considering the ultra light TX770, and wonder if anyone has any experience with it. I too am concerned with wanting to be able to convert to Vista at the right time. Is it possible to buy one of these and only have it loaded with a few essentials, or must one take the whole package?

 

pwaggs: I'm thinking I might upgrade to 2 gigs of ram. I've heard that tx only can have max of 1.5 gb. is this because OS/hardware-wise it will only accept so much, so do people state the 1.5 gb as leaving in 1 512 mb dimm thats already in there and replacing one of the 512's with 1 gb. any idea on this? i know thats alot of excess ram lying around ( 1 got 2x256 from my FS as well), but it might be worth it.

The thing with SZ though is that atleast it has the nvidia video card because i think aqua is what the msot taxing part of vista probably is.

 

My brother has T series and he said he did not meet the requirement for Windows "Aero" for Windows Vista

Here is a link to Microsoft website where you can download the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx

Takes 2-3 min to run.

Almost any machine can run Vista, the problem is if it supports Windows Aero. I think the basic Req for Windows Aero is a graphic card that supports Direct X9.

Hope this helps.

 

I ran Vista with Aero on my SZ with both the hybrid switch on stamina and speed. It worked both way. Hmmm...I did not run the test with it switched to stamina though.

 

The reason the TX700's and TX850's only can have a 1.5GB max on them is that there is 512MB of RAM built in (soldered to the board) with one slot open that can take either a 512MB chip or a 1GB chip to max at 1.5GB. The new TXN15 is the same way.

The TXN17 and TXN19's will have 1GB soldered on and 1 slot open so they will have a max of 2GB available to them...

Hope that helps clear things up.

 

512 soldered?? sony jsut seems to go out of there way to force people to upgrade to new laptops every 6 months. well im srue theres some technicalreasoning behind this...its jsut **** inconvenient.
id spend the extra money for the txn, but in canada the only model available is the tx850...non configurable so i'm doomed to upgrade in another 8-10 months it seems.
ch28: ir an the advsiory test, it gave me no warnign for video card or ram or cpu. so my hardware seems to have be up to par. im sjtu afraid it'll b excrutiatingly slow...remidsn me of the days i upgraded from windows 3.11 to 95 and it was just excrutiatingly PAINFUL.
im donwloading the rc1 vista right now and will try to run it on a partition see how that works...anyone tried rc1 with tx? any comments?