Vista on an X6 series. Can all the models cope.

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paul*robertson · #1 Post by **paul*robertson** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 1:41 pm

Can all the x6 series models cope well with Vista. The basic X60 single core 1.6 can be bought cheaply nowadays. With 2gig of ram would this cope, or should you be looking at the dual core models.

Marin85 · #2 Post by **Marin85** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:55 pm

Vista is rather memory-hungry than cpu-hungry, so I don´t see why a single core cpu at 1.6 GHz would not handle this OS. Of course, it wouldn´t be as fast as a dual core, but unless you are the multitasker or *mutlithreader* type, this shouldn´t present a problem at all. You could actually try to max out the memory, Vista kind of likes that and with a decent HD this should reduce the cpu load a little bit more. Under the given circumstances I have to ask: how about considering Windows 7 ?

#3 Post by **dr_st** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:10 pm

Agree with Marin on both counts. Yeah, it should run Vista just fine, given enough RAM and a few tweaks on Vista to reduce its footprint.

But in the current situation, there is little reason to use Vista, when Win7 does just the same, and has a few more new features, and some performance optimizations built-in (most of which you can get from Vista as well by some tweaking, but what's the point?) Vista doesn't offer anything better than Win7.

If you were already running Vista, I would say the opposite thing - there is almost no reason to upgrade a properly configured Vista SP2 to Win7. But when choosing a new OS - a different ballgame.

#4 Post by **Harryc** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:14 pm

I run Windows 7 on my X60s with 2GB RAM. Highly recommended....it's fast.

paul*robertson · #5 Post by **paul*robertson** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:18 pm

Vista is on my Samsung and i'd like the same O/S on both main laptops. Having said that i did read someone successfully installed Windows 7 on a 600x.

paul*robertson · #6 Post by **paul*robertson** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:19 am

I'd also say i'm getting used to Vista. I really dont want to learn another new O/S.

So max out the ram and a single core X60 should be fine. Thanks.

K0LO · #7 Post by **K0LO** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:36 pm

If you're used to Vista you won't have any trouble at all adapting to Windows 7.

#8 Post by **Kyocera** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 7:07 am

2gigs of RAM and you'll have no problem.

paul*robertson · #9 Post by **paul*robertson** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:49 pm

Kyocera wrote:2gigs of RAM and you'll have no problem.

To answer my question i bought an X61 2.0 dual core with 2 gig of RAM. Works like a dream. Very snappy.

bill bolton · #10 Post by **bill bolton** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 6:51 pm

paul*robertson wrote:So max out the ram and a single core X60 should be fine. Thanks.

The X60 has a dual core 32 bit processor, and will run Vista x86 and Windows 7 x86 without any problems.

I have Vista Ultimate x86 running fine on a T60 with 3GB of memory.

Cheers,

Bill B.

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