Re: Vic. Dell C640. 2.4ghz, 40gig, 1gb, Wi Fi etc

The real question is, why would anyone WANT to run Vista?


"dj" <dj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:24:26 GMT, "David Z" <dave@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>And supposing someone did want to run Vista - how would they do this on
a
>>2.4 Ghz P4 notebook with only 40 GB?
>
> Upgrade the RAM and hard drive for starters.
>
>>he installation alone would eat up
>>40% of the HDD and it'd run slow as hell on the system.
>
> Probably, but throw in an extra 1GB RAM + decent sized hard drive
> (120GB+)  and install Vista Basic. Not pretty but it will work ok.
>
>> I don't believe most of the P4
>>chipsets sup****ted it - my old P4 2.4 ghz desktop certainly didn't have 
>>USB
>>2.0 ****ts.
>
> A lot of older P4 chipsets do sup****t USB 2.0. Intel 865 and higher
> chipsets all do and these date from 2003. The Dell C640 listed here
> also sup****ts USB 2.0. What is your point ?
>
> In any case, I sure as hell wouldn't run any version of Windows on a
> P4 2.4GHz notebook. I'd install Kubuntu 8.04 or any decent GNU/Linux
> distro quick smart.
>