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May 8th, 2007 14:00

Upgrading my Gen 1 Inspiron XPS today

After finding out that my old laptop is capable of running Aero, I've decided to format my hard drive (it was way overdue for one anyway), and upgrade to Vista Ultimate today. But first I have a few questions that the "Windows Vista Center" section of the site did not answer:

Are all the DELL drivers Vista compatible (chipset, etc.)?

What am I going to do about graphics drivers? I've always used the Omega drivers because Dell's were never updated and the AMD website says they don't support my graphics card. But currently the Omega drivers don't support Vista yet...

MS says my laptop is Aero capable, but how capable is it? What will my performance score (or whatever it's called) be? 2? 3?

Anything else I should no before I go ahead with this?

Message Edited by ScYtH on 05-08-2007 10:30 AM
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    "Are all the DELL drivers Vista compatible (chipset, etc.)?"
     
    Have you entered your service tag and then checked for Vista drivers for your machine? If not, that's a good place to start.
     
    If the graphics drivers for you system were never updated by Dell, chances are Vista will have generic drivers (but no guarantees).
    As for your question regarding performance, no one can tell that in advance. However, looking at your specs, Vista will run, but you may not be totally happy with it. To get the most "Wow" from Vista (particularly running the Aero interface), a dual-core processor, 2GB RAM, 256MB video adapter and a fast hard drive are certainly preferred.
     
    With your current configuration, I would suspect that an XP installation will run faster than Vista, but you won't really know until you take the plunge.

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