Vista with my upgraded older tavelmate

I am updating my wifes travelmate to use a 755 pentium M processor 2 gigs of ram, and 160 hitachi 7200 rpm drive. Can this notebook run vista then? I love my vista installs, and I want her to have it too...

thanks

 

It can, but it won't run it well. Single core processor on Vista is pretty painful in my experience. Since it's only got 2 gigs of RAM, I don't see much point in going Vista anyway.

 

What are you smoking?
My Inspiron 1501, single core AMD proc, and 1GB RAM runs Vista easily, and I set the proc to 1Ghz.
RAM? FF, Pyscripter, Winrar, and pidgin open atm, 60% RAM usage.

 

Performance will be fine. I read in one of your previous thread, that your notebook has the 855GM Chipset. Your HDD isn't that fast, so expect a few lags when running/loading intensive tasks. 2GB RAM will be fine for Vista. And the Pentium M will be fine as well.

 

Okay, sorry. In my experience, every computer I've run Vista on that has a single core CPU has run like garbage. This is of course comparing it to a dual core system or the same system with XP.

 

Well the Pentium M should be better than Pentium 4 since it is based on the P3 architecture and has shorter instruction pipelines. If you are trying to game on it (which I doubt) your system will choke with Vista. I have a P4 2.6/800 with 2GB RAM and a NVIDIA 7800GS video card and in TF2 if there were players on the screen the frame rate would go down to 2FPS instantly, no matter the GFX settings. If you are just doing standard work on that machine it will be absolutely fine, but a little slower.

-J.B.

 

Vista runs great on 2 gb RAM.
I don't have firsthand experience running Vista on a single-core machine, but I would expect it to run fine.

 

cool thanks guys, my HDD is being upgraded to the hitachi 160gb 7200rpm so that should speed things up too.

 

7K100 ?
IMO that is still slow. A HM160HC would have been alot faster.

 

Andy, is that the drive reviewed here rated as the fastest IDE notebook drive? if so, thats the one im talking about. the travelmate I have does not have sata...

 

I hope you went for this one. It is the only mobile IDE drive with a 166GB platter.

7K100s are painfully slow and noisy.

 

yes, that is the one im getting for the computer. thanks

 

what is the fastest celeron that i can get? I was looking at them and you can get a 2.0 gig celeron, im only going to be running vista basic on this system now as it has the features that we need and nothing to over tax the system.

 

Fastest Socket 479 Celeron M is the 390 @ 1.7GHz; 400MHz FSB.

 

only the vista home basic cuz it has no aero interface.
vista home premium, business, ultimate, requires duo 1.6 and more.

 

I will be running basic, because it has all the things I need to do in it anyways. will I notice a good increase with the 390, 1.5gigs of ram, and the new fast hardrive?

 

I run Vista Ultimate on a AMD athlon 64 3700 with 2 GBs of RAM easily. But it is a desktop system so disk performance will be better. Vista will run just fine on it. I can keep outlook, Firefox, IE, Acrobat Professional and Media player playing all at the same time with no hiccups.

 

Why not get a Pentium M ? It'll run alot cooler, and can be undervolted.

 

im looking at cost vs. performance.

its only for general surfing mild photo editing, and printing. Its my wifes computer but it is rather slow, so I figured we would upgrade what I can for not alot of money.

 

I really don't understand why you would put Vista. That's the opposite of cost vs performance because it will cost money but you will LOSE performance.

 

Maybe for you. I love vista, and the way it organises things. and just the look of it...so thats fine. plus, I really dont see any speed drop with my desktop computer, or my notebook with vista on it now. however, the xp looks so "old" now, and none of the gadget programs etc you can get are stable or anything...so why not pay the 99 bucks for vista basic for it. My wife loves the look of my home premium and she understands that she wont have flip or areoglass and shes cool with that. plus readyboost will make it faster. I dont want this post to get into a pissing match with people who dislike vista for some reason or another. I want to know about my hardware upgrades im looking to make.

SO, back to the question, with the faster celeron and upgraded drive and ram will i notice a good boost in speed or should I spend the extra money and get a 755 p4m. this is a dollar for dollar question, of course the p4 is better but will I see a good bump with the faster celeron..

 

Er, I run Vista on some of my computers. I have no problems with the OS itself. All I am saying is that it is important to compliment software with the proper hardware, otherwise you're signing yourself up for problems.

 

Yes, thats why vista basic is going on. it uses little more than xp. its when you go to the graphic intensive OS versions that you need faster hardware. I feel that with what im doing, the vista basic OS will run fine. im just wondering about how much faster the fast 479 celeron would be than our 340. if not that much then im going to put the 755 p 4 in. im trying to keep the cash outlay slow. but my wife loves vista.

 

I don't know how much you'll be spending, but... consider the alternative of selling the old laptop and putting the money toward a new one with Vista preloaded.

Otherwise, you're paying a lot for the Vista license + maybe other hardware upgrades, and performance still won't be as good as on a new machine.

You can get a perfectly decent laptop these days with Vista Premium for around $600.

 

100% agree with this statement.

 

A fast 160GB Single-Platter HDD (~$60), and 2GB RAM (~$40) are good enough to even run Vista Ultimate with the most crappiest Celeron M, unless one is not running tasks that specifically demand a fast CPU.

 

thanks andy.

would we notice a speed increase with the fast celeron compared to the 340 we have now?

its 99 bucks for vista basic from my cousin at the local store here. the ram and processor is not alot of money either. I figure 150 for parts and 99 for the basic, well below 600 bucks. I know that if I bought a new notebook for her its going to be what she wants....so it would be more than 600 bucks. so instead we are upgrading hers she has now.