Windows vista compatible???

miko

hi im looking at buying a new laptop, the Hp pavilion dv2058ea, its says on it windows vista compatible, but on their site it says you may need additional software or hardware if you want to run some of the other programs that come woth vista like the new vista aerohttp://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ie/en/ho/WF06b/21675-38187-38191-38191-38191-12435978-77389057.html

Can anyone explain this to me or tell me if it will be capable of running the full windows vista!

Cheers
Miko

Capt'n Midnight

without looking it up, it may be related to the amount of RAM needed,

check the Vista requiements on www.microsoft.com

ressem

The vista capable sticker doesn't mean much. I saw it on a D420 with only 8 MB of shared video ram yesterday.

The new features are meant to include trusted computing, virtualization as well as aero. Unless MS have postponed them.

I would guess that that laptop would be able to support enough of Aero as matters, it's not a directx 10 rated part, since they aren't available, and will not be for a while.

Should support virtualization and TPM, assuming the BIOS is up to date.

NutJob

to make vista useable id recommend two serial II ata disks in raid 0 with two gig of ram + a reasonable processor as its heavy on both disk and ram.

Graphics always depends on if ur a gamer or not.

I had an older version of this on my main home machine and it makes vista useable.

thats if ur aiming for fast responce from the system

andy1249

NutJob to make vista useable id recommend two serial II ata disks in raid 0 with two gig of ram + a reasonable processor as its heavy on both disk and ram.

I think the OP is talking about a laptop , never seen a laptop that could take two drives yet ,

Anyway , the only people that have Vista now are Beta testers , the end product could well be very different , there is no one who can tell you if any piece of gear is truly compatible until the final release version ,

If its that important to you , dont buy the laptop until Vista is released and the laptop ships with it. Otherwise make do with XP.
Thats the best and only advice that anyone can seriously give you on this at this moment in time!

seamus

andy1249 wrote:

I think the OP is talking about a laptop , never seen a laptop that could take two drives yet ,

It's pedantic, but it is indeed to get a laptop with two drives inbuilt. For those on a smaller budget, you can get a dockable hard drive (slots in where the DVD/Floppy does) for running such a set up. Of course the very idea of attempting to run raid 0 with one dockable drive (even if you superglued it in) makes my head hurt.

NutJob

OOPS note to self no more 1am posts.

Ignore the min spec and aim a nice bit higher no less than a gig of ram.
Biggest hardrive within reason as itll mushroom like Xp did when "Updates"(Patches) come out

Cryos

miko wrote:

hi im looking at buying a new laptop, the Hp pavilion dv2058ea, its says on it windows vista compatible, but on their site it says you may need additional software or hardware if you want to run some of the other programs that come woth vista like the new vista aerohttp://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ie/en/ho/WF06b/21675-38187-38191-38191-38191-12435978-77389057.html

Can anyone explain this to me or tell me if it will be capable of running the full windows vista!

Cheers
Miko

Hi Miko,

The "Designed for Windows XP / Windows Vista Compat" logo on all hp machines is just that, at the moment hp have internal Drivers for all Units Vista Capable; The units do run perfect on Vista.

Cheers,

Michael
michael.obrien2@hp.com

TerrorFirmer

the 7200 will be fully Vista compatiable.

As for seeing a machine with 8mb Vram being listed as vista compatiable, that was most likely a machine running a GMA 900/950 or some other integrated chip and being manually set to 8mb...