Mobile Partitions

Confuse with Vista and XP?

I badly need your advice. I will buy a new laptop next week & I was already decided that I would get the HP dv2730 until my best buddy freaked out when he found out the OS is Windows Vista. He said I will just waste my money with that OS & suggested to request to the store to change the OS to XP instead. He has a degree in comp mgnt & obviously know more about computers. He also recently bought an ASUS with OS Linux so I understand his concern. The Hp I was talking about comes with the following specs: Intel ® Core ™ 2 Duo T7500 (2.2 Ghz) 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM (2 DIMM) nVidia GeForce 8400M GS Dedicated 128MB Graphics Memory * 250 GB (5400RPM) HD HD-DVD-ROM with SuperMulti DVD+R/RW Double Layer * 14” WXGA High Definition BrightView Widescreen (1280x800) Intel® PRO/Wireless 4965AGN Network Connection plus Bluetooth™ * Altec Lansing speakers Touch Pad with dedicated vertical and horizontal Scroll Up/Down pad 6-Cell Lithium-Ion Integrated Webcam 5 in 1 Digital Media Reader HP Quick Play HP Mobile Remote Control Finger Print Reader ExpressCard/54 PC Card Slot Expansion Port 3 Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium (32-Bit) 1 year on Parts and Labor I'm pretty okay with the specs however I don't want to take the risk & then regret afterwards. I'm also thinking of making a partition for XP & Vista. I know its possible but I dont want to crash the laptop very early. Please advise... I'd like to use it for internet, music, movies, psp downloads, a few games... I'm not familiar with Vista. I've been using XP for the last 2 yrs in my office's computer desktop & its okay.

Public Comments

1. unless you have a lot of apps that are not compatible in VIsta. otherwise why you want to partition XP and Vista? I'd say the specs are nice enough for installing Vista alone. I use a macbook and i partitioned a drive for XP. It's running very smoothly. I would probably upgrade to Vista as soon as I get a copy of it.
2. OK first what are you going to used the laptop for? Internet, word processing, spreadsheets, etc. If that sounds like what you want to do, keep Vista. I work day to day with computer as a database manager, and Vista had and has problems and they are being worked out. The same kind of problems XP had when it was first released. Personally I'd keep Vista unless the programs you used won't run under it.
3. vista is a very good system I have been using over a year and less problems than xp and you can duel boot with xp
4. All this is great!!!! Don't ditch Vista. See the features on the site. It is really easy and secure to use. I have use Vista last four months online without any AntiVirus installed, except Windows Defender. Vista has everything you have never even dreamt of. The Windows Explorer toolbars even include the handy search bars. Vista machines have a lot of RAM and other resources (they need it, Vista hogs memory) and thus, they can do lot of things together. The CPU you have will be pretty great. You can do a lot of gaming on it. The indexing is cool. The wallpapers are beautiful and the screensavers are too detailed. I say, Vista may be a little hard to use initially, when you don't have the hang of it, but now I feel, XP was too hard and boring, compared to the Aero interface of Vista and the cool animations. Luna, XP's GUI was really, really boring. You have 250 GB, that's fine, but I would suggest that you buy a bigger hard disk for dual-booting.
5. I am not a computer expert. I have windows XP home edition & it is working fine.You can take advice from a computer expert.
6. Personall, I agree with him 100%. In my opinion Vista is garbage, but with many new computers the manufacture's do not release drivers for XP. I would check to make sure the drivers for that particular system are available for XP, before buying it, if you intend to load XP on it.
7. You can do that , make it 2 partition for XP. and Vista . So as my experience . I never use for the second part because i not funny to switch it all the time. at this time you can use for Vista if you love nice interface and a bit slow more that XP. ( that why XP still in the market and continue to upgrade) But XP is nice too.. For some thing stable ?? you need XP version for it. and one thing that importance is Vista consume more memory.. if you use large program and run it together at the same time, your laptop will slow down and down.
8. There's no doubt that linux is a good operating system, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with Vista and as most computers now come with it pre-installed, it is more economic to go with this system. Why on earth you would consider two operating systems is beyond me. Vista is good, most things are now compatible with it and if you have older software that is not, then it's time you got into the 21st century and updated things. (IT tutor)