which is one better, Windows Xp Pro or Win Vista home premium on a Dell Inspiron 1525?

8 responses so far ↓

• 1 yap_jp // Oct 30, 2008

  For me, I prefer Vista

• 2 Anthony // Oct 30, 2008

  Stick with XP untill Windows 7 comes out next year…

• 3 Gabi // Oct 30, 2008

  If you are looking for eye candy you should go for Vista Ultimate. If you want performance, multitasking and a friendlier operating system, I would suggest xp pro.

• 4 Alex // Oct 30, 2008

  Agree with Anthony, wait till Windows 7…

• 5 Dj R // Oct 30, 2008

  Vista if you have the specs.

  XP if you’re a hardcore gaming addict, THey preffer better performance (IE, Vista requires 1 gig of ram, Wich meeeaaaans, 1 gig of RAM less for them)

• 6 Stefano D // Oct 30, 2008

  If i were you i would wait until windows 7 comes out, but if you are inpatient get vista.
  Here is a little about windows 7

  According to reports sent to TG Daily [20], the Milestone 1 build of Windows 7 adds support for systems using multiple heterogeneous graphics cards from different vendors and a new version of Windows Media Center.[20] New features in Milestone 1 also reportedly include Gadgets being integrated into Windows Explorer, a Gadget for Windows Media Center, the ability to visually pin and unpin items from the Start Menu and Recycle Bin, improved media features, the XPS Essentials Pack being integrated, and a multiline Calculator featuring Programmer and Statistics modes along with unit conversion.

  Reports indicate that a feedback tool included in Milestone 1 lists some coming features: the ability to store Internet Explorer settings on a Windows Live account, updated versions of Paint and WordPad, and a 10-minute install process.[39] In addition, improved network connection tools might be included.

  Many new items have been added to control panel including: Accelerators, ClearType Text Tuner, Display Color Calibration Wizard, Gadgets, Infrared, Recovery, Troubleshooting, Workspaces Center, Location and Other Sensors, Credential Manager , Biometric Devices, System Icons, Windows Solution Center, and Display.[40]

  In build 6780, the Windows Security Center has been renamed the Windows Solution Center (Windows Health Center in earlier builds) which encompass both Security and Maintenance of the computer.

  In the demonstration of Windows 7 at D6, the operating system featured multi-touch, including a virtual piano program, a mapping and directions program and a touch-aware version of Paint.

  According to released PDC 2008 (taking place in October 27-30, 2008) session information, Windows 7 discussions will cover “enhancements to the taskbar, Start Menu, thumbnails and their desktop elements”[41], a new networking API with support for building SOAP based web services in native code (as opposed to .NET based WCF web services) [42], new features to shorten application install times, reduced UAC prompts, simplified development of installation packages[43], and improved globalization support through a new Extended Linguistic Services API [44].

  [edit] Methods of input
  Hilton Locke, who worked on the Tablet PC team at Microsoft, reported on December 11, 2007 that Windows 7 will have new touch features. An overview of the touch capabilities was demonstrated at the All Things Digital Conference on May 27, 2008. A video demonstrating the multi-touch capabilities was later made available on the web on the same day.[45]

  Also, Bill Gates has said that Windows 7 is also “a big step forward” for speech technology and handwriting recognition.[46]

  [edit] Virtual hard disk
  On May 21, 2008, Microsoft posted a job opening for Windows 7 regarding work to implement VHD support, i.e. support for single-file containers that represent an entire hard drive including partitions, and transparently performing I/O operations on this as a typical hard drive, including boot support.[47]

  “ In Windows 7, our team will be responsible for creating, mounting, performing I/O on, and dismounting VHDs (virtual hard disks) natively. Imagine being able to mount a VHD on any Windows machine, do some offline servicing and then boot from that same VHD. Or perhaps, taking an existing VHD you currently use within Virtual Server and boost performance by booting natively from it.
  ”

  [edit] Boot performance
  According to data gathered from the Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program, 35% of Vista SP1 installations boot up in 30 seconds or less. [48] The more lengthy boot times on the remainder of the machines are mainly due to some services or programs that are loaded but are not required when the system is first started. Microsoft’s Michael Fortin, a Distinguished Engineer on the Windows team, noted in August 2008 that Microsoft has set aside a team to work solely on the issue, and that team aims to “significantly increase the number of systems that experience very good boot times.” They “focused very hard on increasing parallelism of driver initialization.” Also, it aims to “dramatically reduce” the number of system services, along with their processor, storage, and memory demands.

• 7 JA12 // Oct 30, 2008

  Vista SP1 should run fine on the Inspiron, especially with 4GB RAM. Have you tried running CCleaner on it to clean up the Registry?

• 8 Ed // Oct 30, 2008

  With 4 Gigs, Vista Home Premium will be great on that laptop. Just some caveats to pay attention to:

  1. Don’t run old software with Vista!!!
  2. Don’t use old hardware with Vista!!!

  That’ should keep you out of trouble. And as always, keep your anti-virus up-to-date and vista compatible, and you should be fine.

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