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    Vista and Pentium M

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by mrXniick, Feb 6, 2008.

  1. mrXniick

    mrXniick 8

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    Is there anyone out there currently running vista on a Pentium M machine? If so I would appreciate feedback on how your experience has been.

    I had vista installed on my laptop in summer of 07, and while i loved the OS, I found it to run a little bit slow. The CPU usage was always pretty high, and i would experience some lag. I switched back to XP for those very reasons.

    I was just wondering if any of this has improved... because i would love to re-install vista.
     
    mrXniick, Feb 6, 2008
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  2. SmoothTofu

    SmoothTofu Inspiron 1420 Owner

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    I'm sure it'll run fine. Most of the time sluggishness in vista will be caused by things like a slow HDD or GPU.
     
    SmoothTofu, Feb 6, 2008
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  3. dondadah88

    dondadah88 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    i had a celoron m 520 on my previous laptop it was 1.6 ghz 533fsb and 1mb l2 cache. it was okay with vista. after tweaks it was pretty responsive. (i had home premium x64 installed)
     
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    in my case i am sure it was the CPU. My gpu is still pretty acceptable, and my HDD is above average.

    Thanks for the feedback though.
     
    mrXniick, Feb 6, 2008
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