re: New laptop OS?
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE
(7132 messages posted)
Other than my nephew's $3,000 24" iMac running Vista Home Premium on Bootcamp, the
best Windows Vista Experience Index scores that I have seen have been on an on-sale
$900 Dell laptop.
Like Steve said, $400 laptops will probably run better with Win7 than with Vista.
Windows Vista (and Win7) have a utility that evaluates the hardware capabilities
of the computer they are installed on and assign scores in five categories, and the
overall score is the lowest of the five scores. If you want to have a very good
experience with Vista on any computer, lappy or desktop, it needs to have a score
of 4.5 or better. To get there on a laptop it needs to have discreet graphics, and
depending upon which card, at least 256MB dedicated video RAM and maybe 512MB dedicated
video RAM.
To answer your question there will be very little difference multimedia/mediacenter-wise
between Vista and Win7. I think Win7 will be able to natively play and burn Blu-Rays.
- Written in response to:
- New laptop OS? (Jack Shaw: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 4:27 pm)
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