I don't know about VIA but I'm running Vista Business on a 1.2Ghz ULV Core 2 Duo and its speedy for anything other then gaming and encoding. Both of which you wouldn't do on this machine to begin with....however I've heard that the CPU in this thing is slow as hell....soooo
Alot of the people experiencing poor performance of VISTA in their computers are upgraders. Many didn't buy Vista preloaded - and many who did, didn't get it with a high spec PC/laptop.
You woulda ran into the same problems if you tried running Win XP on a Pentium 450 mhz with 128MB of RAM.
Why is it I barely see complaints from those people buying 3GB of RAM in their dual core computers? I'll tell you why, cause their computers aren't OLD.
I manage Mac lab and we've got lots of Vista computers on the side. I've used numerous VISTA laptops and I've never had a single problem with the exception of trying to use old hardware. All of these laptops mind you were HP DV series.
HP, SONY, Toshiba, etc don't sell laptops with an OS that doesn't work. This thing has been well tested I'm certain.
You guys probably know that HP designed this for Educational space. They iterviewed this segment and came out with the specs et al. (NO CD/DVD drive so pupils dont install games and stuff, small screen size so that tutors can keep an eye on the pupil indulging themselves glaring at the screen when he/she is lecturing..etc.)
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This is the first mini laptop in the "race to the bottom" that I've seen that I wouldn't have any qualms buying.
Its the perfect example of why HP is on top. They have great products and great refinement. I've been an HP fan for several years.
I'm in the market for a laptop and I'm facing either the HP DV series or a TX tablet.
Uhhh, yeah... Vista with a 1.2 single core VIA. Please write back and let us know how that works out.
I don't know about VIA but I'm running Vista Business on a 1.2Ghz ULV Core 2 Duo and its speedy for anything other then gaming and encoding. Both of which you wouldn't do on this machine to begin with....however I've heard that the CPU in this thing is slow as hell....soooo
Alot of the people experiencing poor performance of VISTA in their computers are upgraders. Many didn't buy Vista preloaded - and many who did, didn't get it with a high spec PC/laptop.
You woulda ran into the same problems if you tried running Win XP on a Pentium 450 mhz with 128MB of RAM.
Why is it I barely see complaints from those people buying 3GB of RAM in their dual core computers? I'll tell you why, cause their computers aren't OLD.
I manage Mac lab and we've got lots of Vista computers on the side. I've used numerous VISTA laptops and I've never had a single problem with the exception of trying to use old hardware. All of these laptops mind you were HP DV series.
HP, SONY, Toshiba, etc don't sell laptops with an OS that doesn't work. This thing has been well tested I'm certain.
Time for a ultra portable ultra low-cost mac!
Who's with me?
hopefully your babysitter.
You guys probably know that HP designed this for Educational space. They iterviewed this segment and came out with the specs et al. (NO CD/DVD drive so pupils dont install games and stuff, small screen size so that tutors can keep an eye on the pupil indulging themselves glaring at the screen when he/she is lecturing..etc.)
A Low Cost Mac? Thats An Oxymoron.
Like a secure installation of Windows.