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768 MB RAM and Home Basic
Hello,
Many websites show the minimum system requirements for Vista Home Basic: they say 512 MB RAM will do. I have this "old" PC (P4 1.7 GHz, 3 x 256 MB RAM, Geforce6200 64-bit), a "Siemens Scenic T", and I am wondering if "Home Basic" will run smootly on this machine. Although it meets the minimum system requirements, I need to know if "Home Basic" _WILL_ run smoothly on this computer. Nothing "special" will be done on this machine, just internet, some basic word processing Ã* la MS Word, opening photographs, listening to music (MP3), watching the average online movie like on YouTube. Before I spend money on Vista (Home Basic) for this computer, I sort of need to know if it will run "normally" with the above mentioned specifications. Perhaps this question may have been asked a zillion times by now... so a simple "Yes" will do for me... :-) Thanks. |
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768 MB RAM and Home Basic
"Kris Dee" wrote in message
... Hello, Many websites show the minimum system requirements for Vista Home Basic: they say 512 MB RAM will do. MS has consistently and constantly refused to acknowledge that their system specifications are woefully understated, neither do they make ANY attempt to change them in the face of reality. It is common knowledge that the MINIMUM RAM for XP is 256 MB with 512 MB being the optimum yet MS STILL says on it's website that the min spec is 128 MB with 64!!! Yes 64!!! MB supported. It's common knowledge that 2GB is the optimum RAM for Vista yet the MS website STILL says 1Gb RAM. Yes you can run Vista on 1GB but its not very fast, particularly if you have Office 2007 as well.... Why MS do this is beyond me....why not be up front with the specs and above all, why not CHANGE them in the light of user experience? |
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768 MB RAM and Home Basic
If it were mine, I would not put Vista on it, it'll run probably, but it'll
be slow. -- ---- Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "Kris Dee" wrote in message ... Hello, Many websites show the minimum system requirements for Vista Home Basic: they say 512 MB RAM will do. I have this "old" PC (P4 1.7 GHz, 3 x 256 MB RAM, Geforce6200 64-bit), a "Siemens Scenic T", and I am wondering if "Home Basic" will run smootly on this machine. Although it meets the minimum system requirements, I need to know if "Home Basic" _WILL_ run smoothly on this computer. Nothing "special" will be done on this machine, just internet, some basic word processing Ã* la MS Word, opening photographs, listening to music (MP3), watching the average online movie like on YouTube. Before I spend money on Vista (Home Basic) for this computer, I sort of need to know if it will run "normally" with the above mentioned specifications. Perhaps this question may have been asked a zillion times by now... so a simple "Yes" will do for me... :-) Thanks. |
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768 MB RAM and Home Basic
768mb is sufficient ram to run Vista Home Basic. "Smoothly" depends on more
than ram. You will have to try it to see for sure. No one can predict that confidently unless they happen to be running VHB on your exact configuration. "Kris Dee" wrote in message ... Hello, Many websites show the minimum system requirements for Vista Home Basic: they say 512 MB RAM will do. I have this "old" PC (P4 1.7 GHz, 3 x 256 MB RAM, Geforce6200 64-bit), a "Siemens Scenic T", and I am wondering if "Home Basic" will run smootly on this machine. Although it meets the minimum system requirements, I need to know if "Home Basic" _WILL_ run smoothly on this computer. Nothing "special" will be done on this machine, just internet, some basic word processing Ã* la MS Word, opening photographs, listening to music (MP3), watching the average online movie like on YouTube. Before I spend money on Vista (Home Basic) for this computer, I sort of need to know if it will run "normally" with the above mentioned specifications. Perhaps this question may have been asked a zillion times by now... so a simple "Yes" will do for me... :-) Thanks. |
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768 MB RAM and Home Basic
"Kris Dee" wrote in message
... Hello, Many websites show the minimum system requirements for Vista Home Basic: they say 512 MB RAM will do. I have this "old" PC (P4 1.7 GHz, 3 x 256 MB RAM, Geforce6200 64-bit), a "Siemens Scenic T", and I am wondering if "Home Basic" will run smootly on this machine. Although it meets the minimum system requirements, I need to know if "Home Basic" _WILL_ run smoothly on this computer. Nothing "special" will be done on this machine, just internet, some basic word processing Ã* la MS Word, opening photographs, listening to music (MP3), watching the average online movie like on YouTube. Before I spend money on Vista (Home Basic) for this computer, I sort of need to know if it will run "normally" with the above mentioned specifications. Perhaps this question may have been asked a zillion times by now... so a simple "Yes" will do for me... :-) Thanks. Personally, I would stay with XP if I owned your machine.. -- Mike Hall - MVP How to construct a good post.. http://dts-l.com/goodpost.htm How to use the Microsoft Product Support Newsgroups.. http://support.microsoft.com/default...help&style=toc Mike's Window - My Blog.. http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx |
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768 MB RAM and Home Basic
I would agree on staying with XP. -- SCSIraidGURU Michael A. McKenney 'www.SCSIraidGURU.com' (http://www.SCSIraidGURU.com) Supermicro X7DWA-N server board pair of Intel E5430 quad core 2.66 GHz Xeons 16GB DDR667 SAS RAID eVGA 8800 GTS 640 MB video card |
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768 MB RAM and Home Basic
Will it be slow even without Aero?
Surely opening the Start menu, or a program window, or starting a program, or surfing the Net, or whatever, should go with the aforementioned hardware and Vista Home Basic? I am not interested in Aero or any other special visual effects (When I want to have _real_ visual effects, then I will startup linux with Compiz/Fusion), I only would like to know if Vista (home basic) would run smoothly on this machine. If it were mine, I would not put Vista on it, it'll run probably, but it'll be slow. |
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768 MB RAM and Home Basic
I think it should be fine as long as you're not working with aero. However the desktop indexing might be kind of heavy on your cpu, so you might want to tweak that after you install vista. -- maher77 |
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768 MB RAM and Home Basic
Here’s a reply from someone who is actually dual-booting Vista Home Premium
SP1 on a 1.4GHz CPU, 768MB Dell laptop. It has a Windows Experience index of 1 due to the poor graphics. WinXP SP3 is on drive C (10GB), Vista on drive D (23GB) and odd data on drive E (4GB). I clean installed XP SP2 OEM followed by the SP3 update then Vista SP1 OEM. The sidebar is running three gadgets. Defender, UAC, indexing and hibernation are off. No automatic Avast functions are running. Windows Media Center runs although I’m not into music or video very much. And, how does it behave? Surprisingly well. My main criticism is that the Works word processor loads slowly and there is a delay in cutting/pasting between documents. My Works is the version that is shipped with XP not the latest one, so this may be the problem. For the sake of £60 (here in England), I suggest you get it and, as a bonus, presumably Vista Home Basic will run a bit faster. Oh, and I tested the Vista beta versions on 512MB. "Kris Dee" wrote: Hello, Many websites show the minimum system requirements for Vista Home Basic: they say 512 MB RAM will do. I have this "old" PC (P4 1.7 GHz, 3 x 256 MB RAM, Geforce6200 64-bit), a "Siemens Scenic T", and I am wondering if "Home Basic" will run smootly on this machine. Although it meets the minimum system requirements, I need to know if "Home Basic" _WILL_ run smoothly on this computer. Nothing "special" will be done on this machine, just internet, some basic word processing Ã* la MS Word, opening photographs, listening to music (MP3), watching the average online movie like on YouTube. Before I spend money on Vista (Home Basic) for this computer, I sort of need to know if it will run "normally" with the above mentioned specifications. Perhaps this question may have been asked a zillion times by now... so a simple "Yes" will do for me... :-) Thanks. |