Does it? i’m looking to buy a laptop but I’m not a fan of vista. There was a comment on a Dell XPS 17xx or something that said that Vista made the laptop slow and unreliable (it’s a gaming laptop so it should be uber). What i want to know is if this is true, and if so does having enough RAM and Processing speed fix this problem? Thanks for you help and if possible please list manufacturers that sell XP laptops.
Okay so based on the answers below, what would the ideal VIsta specs be? 3gig RAM or 4? 2.4+GHz or less?
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11 responses so far ↓
1 whereisbob // Sep 28, 2008
how old is ur xps and yes vista slows down pc especialy with aero enabled i recomend vista with gaming minimum 2 gb ram and core duo procesor any will do but hi spec one if u want to game
2 Scott T // Sep 28, 2008
It depends on the laptop. If it’s a less powerful laptop, than probably yes. I’ve got Vista on a desktop with 4 gigs of RAM and it is blazingly fast–noticeably faster than XP in terms of programs starting, task switching, etc. but friends I know who have it on 1 gig systems complain about how slow it is.
3 Straygirl911 // Sep 28, 2008
Vista requires a lot more RAM that previous versions of XP. As long as you have enough RAM, Vista is fine.
4 s3b... // Sep 28, 2008
Well, yeah if it has enough ram and processing speed i dont see why it would slow it down, vista can be memory hungry but if it has enough just go for it , Hope this helped =] bwt, my dad has a xps gaming laptop and it is UBER lol
5 raypc@sbcglobal.net // Sep 28, 2008
Vista is THE reason I switched to MAC for a personal laptop. I still have 2 other laptops running windows but had them reloaded with XP. VISTA is the worst operating system I’ve ever seen and unfortunately Microsoft is too big to do anything about it. BTW… all new laptops since Oct 2007 are installed with VISTA. If you want XP, you have to order it or buy and install it… either option is better than Vista.
6 samantha 3 // Sep 28, 2008
i have an HP Pavillion Entertainment laptop with vista and it runs extremely fast.
- it has 2 gb’s with AMD Turion.
7 Zee // Sep 28, 2008
newer software can cope with larger amounts of processing power, and memory storage
to make this software efficient it must be installed on an appropriate machine
for example, running something like vista which is built to support 64bit, just wouldn’t happen on a 16bit processor and 32mb of ram
so in short
yes new software will give you a slower performance on old hardware
the sad truth is….vista can slow down a good built pc as well
8 pinkcourds // Sep 28, 2008
I like Vista. I first bought a Dell notebook which would not even boot up. I then returned it and bought a second Dell which also did the same thing. Apparently it did not have enough memory to run Vista.
I now have a Toshiba that runs Vista and I love it. Last I knew though that you can get a notebook with XP but it has to usually be ordered since everything stocked has Vista. My boyfriend got the same Toshiba as I but with XP.
Good luck.
9 Poison_Ivory // Sep 28, 2008
Having enough RAM does not fix this problem. It seems vista still has many bugs that need fixing before it becomes better than XP. I know many people who say they bought a new computer and once they deleted vista and put XP on they’re computers ran much more smoothly.
10 jrbraves26 // Sep 28, 2008
it slows it down and makes popups. it also takes up a bunch of memory and there is no defference from vista to anything else.
11 Wes M // Sep 28, 2008
The short answer is yes. Driver support for Vista is terrible, the system requirements are almost double what XP’s are, and overall it’s just a badly written OS. There are ways you can tweak Vista to gain some extra performance, but personally I don’t like spending 4 hours applying tweaks and hacks and turning off “features” just to make my computer run at a usable speed, especially when all of the visual effects that bog Vista down can be achieved using less than half the resources. If you don’t believe me check out OS X Leopard or the Compiz Fusion Desktop Manager for Linux.
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