Vista SP1 on my R50p

[mgo]

Since my R50p is sort of my "lab animal" for experiments and things, that is the first machine I have used for trying out XP SP3 (successful and on its own hard drive) and now today, running Vista SP1 on another hard drive.

This morning, I downloaded and installed Vista SP on another hard drive containing Vista Business.

As advised in the menu when the install began, it took a little more than an hour to complete the SP1 installation. The process appeared pretty straight forward.

One hitch: On first boot up after the installation was finished my desktop failed to finish loading and the machine locked. The three finger salute would not take me to the Task manager.

I was forced to do a hard shut down and then power back up. That took me to the usual "windows failed to shut down properly" window. I selected "start windows normally" and the R50p booted, and presented me with a normal desktop with no further problems.

I ran a CHKDSK just to be sure there was nothing wrong with the partition after the lockup, and there was nothing amiss.

My obervations so far:
- boot up is not especially any faster. But with 2 gig or RAM this machine runs pretty well anyway, even with Vista
-file copy seems faster. I copied the 400 mp SP1 file over to another partition and it went about as quickly as with XP.
-Perfect Disk ran fine, and it did a lengthy offline defrag after all the SP1 things were done.

After a couple hours of doing my routine things, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with Vista running the SP1.

Thought other ThinkPad folks would like to know about my experience.

[pianowizard]

Thanks for posting your experience. I've two R50p's and it's good to know that if I have to upgrade to Vista someday, they will be up to the task. Of course, I hope I'll never have to upgrade because I love Win XP.