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Hi.

I have a Lenovo 3000 N200 notebook. Its the Dual core 1.6gig machine, with 120gb hard drive and 1gb memory. Graphics is handled by onboard intel chips (which aparrently can support aero effects).

I'm thinking of upgrading to Vista Business, but I really don't want to mess up my entire system, so I was wondering if I could get any pointers about how to go about this in terms of compatibility with my frequently used apps.

I have run the Vista Upgrade Advisor, and it tells me that everything is ok, besides the fact that I will need to uninstall Nero and McAfee before I commence the installation. On the hardware side, my sound might not work after installation. Not all that bad so far, but...

I need to be certain that I can run Pastel Partner 2007 at the very least. Have checked in another thread on mybroadband, and got some good pointers - aparrently I need to disable UAC, and everything will Pastel will be ok. Anybody here able to confirm this?

After the upgrade, will I still retain all applications that were not mentioned in the upgrade advisor? Will my Office2007 installation still be intact? Email in outlook2007?

Lastly, Lenovo fingerprint software (and other software pertaining to Lenovo computers). Will these still function the same as they do now?

If you guys can be of any assistance, I will be grateful.

Regards,
gsw.
 
Upgrade!? Dude, sidegrade at BEST! Unless you have 2gb Ram, don't even consider it.
 
I've been trying to decide on this for a while, and was mainly worried about sitting around waiting for applications to respond... The pc works really well the way it is now, I definitely don't want a slow vista pc.

Tx.
 
gsw said:
I've been trying to decide on this for a while, and was mainly worried about sitting around waiting for applications to respond... The pc works really well the way it is now, I definitely don't want a slow vista pc.

Tx.
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Well that is what you would get. With those specs, XP should fly though. No need to change to Vista at all if you ask me.
 
funny, though, the way the upgrade advisor says in big letters: "Your Computer Can Run Vista!"

I'm sure it probably CAN, but how well is the question...

Thanks for the input.

*removes vista business dvd from drive.*
 
gsw said:
funny, though, the way the upgrade advisor says in big letters: "Your Computer Can Run Vista!"

I'm sure it probably CAN, but how well is the question...

Thanks for the input.

*removes vista business dvd from drive.*
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That is just it. There was a lawsuit the other day where Micro$oft had to retract a claim it made about a PC being "Vista ready".
They say that you only need 512MB RAM, but Vista will run like a dog if you try to run it on sub-1GB RAM.
 
Must be honest, i was kinda looking forward to a change... been using XP for a long time.

My real love, however, is linux. I have a really nice Ubuntu machine at home, but can't use it (as the primary os) on the notebook because it doesnt do things like pastel etc etc.
 
gsw said:
Must be honest, i was kinda looking forward to a change... been using XP for a long time.

My real love, however, is linux. I have a really nice Ubuntu machine at home, but can't use it (as the primary os) on the notebook because it doesnt do things like pastel etc etc.
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Does Wine not run Pastel nicely?
 
haven't tried it because it was always a mission to set up linux on one of the work machines only to find out that it aint gonna work (possibly).

its a client/server setup, so the application actually has to be set to "run in" a mapped drive on the server.

I may enjoy linux, but networking in linux has not been on my todo list to learn.
 
hj2k_x said:
That is just it. There was a lawsuit the other day where Micro$oft had to retract a claim it made about a PC being "Vista ready".
They say that you only need 512MB RAM, but Vista will run like a dog if you try to run it on sub-1GB RAM.
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My Lenovo 3000 N200 (1.73) celeron came with 512MB RAM and was painfully slow on Vista [Home Basic]. I put in another 1 Gb and is works much better now. About the various software compatibilies I'm not sure as I don't use those specific programs. My stuff seems to run ok, with the exception of netmeter.
 
Saule said:
My Lenovo 3000 N200 (1.73) celeron came with 512MB RAM and was painfully slow on Vista [Home Basic]. I put in another 1 Gb and is works much better now. About the various software compatibilies I'm not sure as I don't use those specific programs. My stuff seems to run ok, with the exception of netmeter.
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Vista also chews battery life more than XP does, what with its constant hdd checks and what not. For me, for a laptop, go with XP. Shove a skin on there to make it look like Vista if you must, but run XP for the best results :)
 
hj2k_x said:
Vista also chews battery life more than XP does, what with its constant hdd checks and what not. For me, for a laptop, go with XP. Shove a skin on there to make it look like Vista if you must, but run XP for the best results :)
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The battery life is limited - just about gets to 2 hours on power save mode:o.
 
Saule said:
The battery life is limited - just about gets to 2 hours on power save mode:o.
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And power save mode really irritates me as well. I see little point in having a laptop if I have to keep the screen so dark you can't see what's going on just so that you get some decent life out of it.

Despite the limitations of Mac OS and the stiff prices of the MacBooks, they are fast, bright and have actual battery life well in excess of 3 hours.
 
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