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m1530 - disadvantages to downgrading to XP?

post #1 of 9
7/22/08 at 11:49am
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I have had my M1530 since Feb. and running Vista. Very few problems. I actually like it.

Recently I have been doing some heavy 3D graphics work and found that if I turn off all the visual cr@p, it makes the machine run about twice as fast on these intensive processes. I have been wanting to run another piece of 3D software that is not Vista compatible (Autodesk AliasStudio) and after I installed it, discovered it definitely doesn't run on Vista.

I don't see any dis-advantage to downgrading to XP. I have a spare copy (XP Pro Full OEM) laying around that I had recently loaded on the dead laptop my M1530 replaced. Legit serial and everything.

So do I lose anything by going back to XP? I'm mostly running 2D and 3D apps and occasionally games. XP could only improve performance, correct? Is there anything in Vista that makes it worth keeping?
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post #2 of 9
7/22/08 at 2:36pm
you can partition the hard drive to run two windows option when you turn it on. one for vista and one for xp. i like vista because everything ie drivers loads automatically. for xp you it is such a hassle if you don't have drivers. in a few years you'll face with backward compatibility problems if you don't have vista.
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post #3 of 9
7/22/08 at 4:12pm
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If it weren't for this one piece of software (Alias), I could live with the way my other 3d program (Alibre) runs on Vista. But there is a display issue with Alias in Vista. Currently I don't have anymore space for a second partition. I already have Vista and OSX taking up most of the space on my HD.

I suppose I could shrink the OSX partition and create an XP drive. Here's looking forward to getting a 500gb laptop drive. Wish my machine had two bays.
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post #4 of 9
7/22/08 at 6:54pm
you got about 245 gb, partition about 10gb for xp. what exactly do you store in your computer anyways? 245gb is alot.
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post #5 of 9
7/22/08 at 9:43pm
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you got about 245 gb, partition about 10gb for xp. what exactly do you store in your computer anyways? 245gb is alot.
Yeah. Mostly graphics projects. But I do need to back some of them up and take em off - make some space. 10gb for XP is probably just perfect.
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post #6 of 9
7/23/08 at 12:19am
xp is running great on my m1530.
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post #7 of 9
7/23/08 at 11:30am
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Originally Posted by ihabfan View Post
you can partition the hard drive to run two windows option when you turn it on. one for vista and one for xp. i like vista because everything ie drivers loads automatically. for xp you it is such a hassle if you don't have drivers. in a few years you'll face with backward compatibility problems if you don't have vista.
There will be a new Windows OS release in 2 years, So the "Pig" Vista OS will also be going bye bye, and hopefully MS gets the next release right.

XP runs faster than Vista, the only draw back is lack of dx10, which really will be years away from being a real issue with XP.

Sure drivers have to be manually installed in some cases, but if your going to stick to XP for a few more years, than you can always create your own XP install disk with the drivers you need already to go
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post #8 of 9
7/23/08 at 5:23pm
what dave said but you also have to realize that 2 yrs in computing tech term means 10 or 20 years. tech changes every day so yeah you can wait for 2 yrs for the new os to come out. :P
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post #9 of 9
7/23/08 at 5:50pm
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Well it's been success all around:

First I got XP running. Not on my internal, but on another HD out of my last laptop. It had a clean install of XP Pro. I turned off the AHCI in bios and it booted right up. All the drivers installed save for the intel system drivers which I suspect were hung up due to existing drivers since the old machine was a core duo. Got my software running etc and immediately realized it wasn't a display problem but that I forgot I had to open a new document.

So I went back to my Vista HD. First I tried the Personal learning copy I had recently downloaded and confirmed that it did in fact work. This turned out to be less functional that I thought it would be. So I installed a full, earlier version that I had. Once I remember how to install it, I am happy to note that everything is working perfectly in Vista (save that I have all the visual effects turned off).
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