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  1. 7th January 2009, 07:16 PM #1
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    Quick Question .

    Hi Guys. I have a Dell Dimension E520 Pentium 4 HT . It has a sticker on it that say designed for XP (which i'm running ) and below it says Vista Capable . So is it as simple as installing it or will something else need to be done ? Thanks .
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    Stay with xp

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fusion View Post
    Hi Guys. I have a Dell Dimension E520 Pentium 4 HT . It has a sticker on it that say designed for XP (which i'm running ) and below it says Vista Capable . So is it as simple as installing it or will something else need to be done ? Thanks .
    you will need to check the dell site to see if they have vista drivers available for that model.

    download them prior and unpack and burn to a drivers cd or dvd so they are available when you first boot into vista.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hodgo View Post
    Stay with xp

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    you will need to check the dell site to see if they have vista drivers available for that model.

    download them prior and unpack and burn to a drivers cd or dvd so they are available when you first boot into vista.
    I went down this track with my wife's Toshiba, it said Vista compatible and we diownloaded several hundred MB of driver updates to enable Vista to install. From then on it was nothing but grief and after 2 months of headaches I put it back to XP and its been fine ever since.

    If you want a world of grief install Vista but be warned. Vista's bad enough on a pre-install like my Sony Viao. Next laptop will be a Macbook!
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    hey mick vista is ok but is very slow compared to xp,i have 2 laptops and now only use the one with xp the other just seems to take forever when doing anything
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    Download the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor 1.0 and it will tell you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lro11 View Post
    Download the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor 1.0 and it will tell you.
    Its a marketing tool.

    It will tell you if it should work if everything is perfect. Reality can very different. We ran this on my wife's Toshiba and it said everything was fine. Then we had the install crash because the SCSI controller firmware needed updating (from Toshiba - found out after an hour of googling) and I can keep listing the issues. Aaaaaarrrgghh!
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    I would be against setting it up on a P4 anyway too slow
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    Quote Originally Posted by dm_td5 View Post
    Its a marketing tool.
    I was waiting for it, but Derek, I never dreamt it'd be you. As soon as one buys a Mac they start to believe that the world is a malevolent corporate machine, existing solely to suck money from the hands of its inhabitants, and that they ought to develop a "global conciousness".
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    Quote Originally Posted by B92 8NW View Post
    I was waiting for it, but Derek, I never dreamt it'd be you. As soon as one buys a Mac they start to believe that the world is a malevolent corporate machine, existing solely to suck money from the hands of its inhabitants, and that they ought to develop a "global conciousness".
    Don't worry Apple's just as slick with their marketing
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