Originally posted by: oojason
^ I agree mate - I bought a very cheap Toshiba laptop from the US which has Vista Basic on. Rather than upgrade to Premium (about $100/£50) I found a Sidebar that works fine and use 'Visual Task Tips' to provide the 'Aero experience'.
To be honest I'm still tempted to put 2000 (my fave OS from my old P3 laptop) or XP on it and take the Vista off and see how it does. To me Vista is a very memory and processor hog - which is uneccesary as it does nothing special or breathtaking.
^ I agree mate - I bought a very cheap Toshiba laptop from the US which has Vista Basic on. Rather than upgrade to Premium (about $100/£50) I found a Sidebar that works fine and use 'Visual Task Tips' to provide the 'Aero experience'.
To be honest I'm still tempted to put 2000 (my fave OS from my old P3 laptop) or XP on it and take the Vista off and see how it does. To me Vista is a very memory and processor hog - which is uneccesary as it does nothing special or breathtaking.
What are the specs of the laptop? If it has anything under 2 GB of RAM, then yeah, it's not going to run Vista very well. If you've got integrated video with less than 2 GB of RAM, it's going to be slow. I can say the same thing about OS X though. Those machines all have some kind of accelerated 3D card in them (Nvidia I believe), so you'd never notice any lag. Take that card out, and it's no different from Vista. And oh yeah, OS X does nothing special or breathtaking either with all its "ooh" and "aah" "features".