Vista on the T60

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AssPenny · #1 Post by **AssPenny** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:00 am

Its possible

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e70/b ... C02270.jpg

Since none of the drivers will install on top of Vista, you will need to do an upgrade from XP at this point. Bluetooth, Battery Meter, and wireless are a bit flakey but work with the beta drivers out there.

NS · #2 Post by NS » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:12 am

AssPenny wrote:Its possible

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e70/b ... C02270.jpg

Since none of the drivers will install on top of Vista, you will need to do an upgrade from XP at this point. Bluetooth, Battery Meter, and wireless are a bit flakey but work with the beta drivers out there.

@AssPenny,
My wireless network used to be 80-90% and in excellent state but after installing Windows Vista just not too long ago, my wireless state is always at a stagnant 30%-35% only.

What should i do to keep the connectivity back to 80-90% state?

Many thanks for the help provided.

AssPenny · #3 Post by **AssPenny** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:33 am

There are some beta Intel wireless drivers out there, might want to find those.
Mine didnt really have any reception difference. My wireless issue was with it reconnecting after going into standby. Since now that is prefered for Vista vs turning it off, that was a problem. If i rebooted, the wireless came up just fine.

dsigma6 · #4 Post by **dsigma6** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:24 am

Did you take note of the RAM used with XP vs. Vista? Of course it will be more, but I'm looking for exactly how much more..

Humpa · #5 Post by **Humpa** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:32 pm

dsigma6 wrote:Did you take note of the RAM used with XP vs. Vista? Of course it will be more, but I'm looking for exactly how much more..

On my Z60m, after a reboot, once wifi is connected and before clicking on anything, my ram usage shows about 200MB on XP pro.
On Vista, with basically the same setup (though a few less ibm utilities running, like no fingerprint), it boots up to about 400-450MB's ram usage.

dsigma6 · #6 Post by **dsigma6** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:24 pm

so 100% more RAM required...I think I'll pass, even if I have plenty to spare!

AssPenny · #7 Post by **AssPenny** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:57 pm

Oh, its a Ram whore alright. The T60 install is bloated the way it is and i think it was running a little over 500mb idle with xp pro. With Vista after the upgrade, it went to a bit over 700mb.

So i would say a 50% jump, not 100%.

People had the same conversation when moving to xp from 2000, lol.

Humpa · #8 Post by **Humpa** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:04 pm

AssPenny wrote:Oh, its a Ram whore alright. The T60 install is bloated the way it is and i think it was running a little over 500mb idle with xp pro. With Vista after the upgrade, it went to a bit over 700mb.

So i would say a 50% jump, not 100%.

People had the same conversation when moving to xp from 2000, lol.

Mine increased about 200MB - it's just that 200MB happened to be 100% in my case. So maybe 200MB is a more accurate increase than using a percentage.
Though I wonder why a clean install of Vista on a T60 would need 700MB, and my Z60m with a clean install of Vista only uses a little over 400MB?
Did you do an upgrade as opposed to a clean install? It appears so, from what you posted.

AssPenny · #9 Post by **AssPenny** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 12:14 am

Yeah, i did an upgrade, so i had almost all my Thinkcrap software installed and still working.

I did a clean install on a Dell D810 (Vista that is), and it was about 500mb.

arni · #10 Post by **arni** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:23 am

Even if Vistas memory consumption is more compared to XP you have to be careful making asumptions on how it will influence you day-to-day tasks.

Vista has a completely different memory handling than XP. Read about it on codinghorror.com

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000688.html

Artur

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