computer help: should i upgrade to vista? - Help.com

Windows 7 is coming out this year, october i think. I would wait until then before thinking about upgrading. It is suppose to fix a lot of the problems vista had.

I wouldn’t bother. Windows 7 is going to be released before the end of the year.

but is it going to be as hardware demading as vista? i only have a pentium 32 bit processor and 1 gig of ram

Pentium M @ 1.7ghz

1GB RAM

80 GB hdd

Windows xp Media center edition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_…

That should be good enough.

1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 GB RAM (32-bit) / 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or higher drive

Those are the minimum system requirements for the windows 7 release candidate which i can’t see changing at this stage. I can’t say how smoothly this will work on your pc though.

It is a bit of a hassle and probably isn’t worth the effort but you could download the release candidate for free from Microsoft and try it on your computer to see how it runs. You’ll want to back up all your work and have the original xp disk if anything goes wrong. I wouldn’t recommend though because of the effort to fix everything is something does go wrong. I did install it on my computer and no problems so far though.

yeah, it looks like it’ll be cutting it close anyway. i could always get another stick of memory but if anybody thinks xp will continue to work for a couple of years i’d rather keep it, why my with somthing that works right?

What are you using it for?

nothing overly heavy, mostly web browseing, music, dvd playback, i rarely play games but the games i have run well on it

Unless your worried about compatibility with devices then there shouldn’t be a problem. The internet depends on your internet speed and music and dvds wont change in performance. Obiviously games will continue to need more and more ram but everything else should be fine. If that is all you need it for then i wouldn’t upgrade unless you want a newer computer.

great, well unless they make some major changes to xp i got all the horsepower i need, as long as i can continue to get updates and **** then i’m good.
i would like to know how to go about geting a bigger hard drive for my ever expanding media library haha
do they sell notebook drives at places like office depot or is it an ebay thing?
maybe an external?

Yeah of course. You’ll have to check your computer details if you want an internal one but you can find external in any computer shop and ebay should have an abundance of them. There shouldn’t be any problems with an external one.

never use vista.