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Bob, you posts about Vista, along with others, got me to try it out too. My primary PC is 4 year old Dell Latitude D400. It has a 1.7 GHz Centrino processor, 1.5 Gb of RAM and a new 80Gb 7,200rpm hard drive. I think this combo meets the official minimum requirements but is a bit short of what many in the industry would want.
I started by running the Easy Transfer Wizard on my XP install and it moved about 15 Gb of data to a share on a server in the home network. Then I changed hard drives and installed Vista Enterprise. It contained every driver I needed including the wireless networking card. I reran Easy Transfer Wizard, installed Office 2007 and most of my previous apps including Firefox.
The security “nanny” was a real PITA so I just turned that off. It also seems to run a bit warmer. Since I can’t use the Glass video feature I am not sure why that is. . . Or if it is just my imagination. There are other differences to be sure but nothing a few minutes of poking around couldn’t overcome.
All in all, I really like Vista. Internet browsing, for example is much faster. Pelican BB in particular performs much, much better. Office 2007 takes some serious getting used to but again with a little patience it is fine.
So, what were you problems with Vista that made you send it back for XP? I would like to try to recreate them so I will know what to expect when working next week. Also, we have a Latitude D500 too and it is a great box so I bet you will like the D520.
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