Hi all,
I have a laptop which currently has Windows Media Center Edition. Along with the laptop I was given a free upgrade disc for Vista Home Premium. I got this laptop back in Feb 07 and at that time, all i heard about Vista was bad, so i kept the disc and never installed it.
Anyway here we are, 1.5 years later and im wondering if its fine for me to upgrade? I heard SP1 has ironed out a huge amount of release bugs?
The laptop is Core2Duo 1.8ghz with 2GB RAM. I do like to run quite a few apps at one time eg, iTunes + Firefox + MSNs + Antivirus + MS Word etc. I've already got times where the laptop does stall and can become a bit slow even though the memory usage never exceeds 1GB so I presume the CPU isnt as good as it use to be.
I heard two tales about vista: a) Its a resource hog, b) It manages its resources significantly better than XP? Which is true? Basically I would like to do the upgrade but if it will have a noticable impact on performance then I'll have to leave it.
With Vista will I have any/many driver related problems? Also would it be worth getting the 64bit? I remember not many bothering with 64bit OS's because of software compatibility, is that still the case?
Really hope you guys can help me out![]()


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