Vista Home Basic on this PC anyone?

[veg1992]

I'm planning on running Vista Home Basic here.... just for the heck of it... plus i got the disk for free... so i'll make sure it works

 

[Jorsoft]

It'll run, just not too great. Be prepared for quite a bit of lag. Even without Aero, Vista Basic is still a resource hog. I remember the low end PCs HP and Compaq would have it installed on. They'd be probably twice as fast as yours and Vista Home would still stutter A LOT!

 

[veg1992]

ok thanks man... but i'm getting an extra 512mb for it.. still a no then right?

 

[KSoD]

Home Basic will be fine. The CPU is a bit slow. If it even meets requirements.

It does just barely meet them. The 40GB HDD will fill up real fast. I would suggest something with some more storage.

I run Home basic on my laptop which is a AMD Turion 1.8 with 1GB of RAM and it is fine. No stutters but it isnt used for any gaming.

 

[peterhuang913]

Tell us how it runs and how you like it.

 

[Webhead]

It'll run, just not too great. Be prepared for quite a bit of lag. Even without Aero, Vista Basic is still a resource hog. I remember the low end PCs HP and Compaq would have it installed on. They'd be probably twice as fast as yours and Vista Home would still stutter A LOT!

Vista Home Basic doesn't have aero (but Home Premium and all the other versions do). I have Vista Home Premium on my laptop (specs in sig) runs quite well, takes a little longer to load up then CP, but once at the desktop its fast. With Aero and the gagets Vista is using about 38% of my Laptops 2GB RAM.

For best performance in Vista many people recommend atleast 1GB and definately 2GB ior more f gaming or usinng memory intensive programs.

Hope this helps a bit.

 

[veg1992]

ya.. i sorta knew about all the features... i studied it hard... and decided to go with Home Basic... but i lost the key!! OMFG...

so i put XP... i think I'll stick with it until i get my new PC... Topic Closed.. would have been great to try it out...