windows xp tablet vs windows vista

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henryliu99 · #1 Post by **henryliu99** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:09 pm

Does windows vista have any additional benefits of windows xp tablet in terms of performance? Will it see the 4gb of ram I have?

I have an x61t with 4gb of ram (only 2.99gb recognized in winxp) and 1.8gig core 2 duo.

ducky2802 · #2 Post by **ducky2802** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:28 pm

I like xp over vista for the tablet version. And you need vista x64 to use all 4gb.

j-dawg · #3 Post by **j-dawg** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:17 pm

If you have a Vista license, you can install Vista 64-bit even if you haven't got the media. Your existing license will cover it.

#4 Post by **ryengineer** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 6:39 am

I second the motion of Windows XP tablet.

snots · #5 Post by **snots** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:58 pm

Hi, I had the same question as the orig. poster: which is better for *tablet* (inking / etc) functionality: Vista (32/64) or XP?

I will get 2 gigs of ram so I don't care about 4 gigs of ram.

I heard that Vista is better for inking (has some improvements?) and also it scales DPI up better so windows are less awkwardly sized up (font-wise), as compared to XP's DPI up-scaling.

I also heard XP Tablet edition was more of an "afterthought", so it feels more "patched" as opposed to Vista's built-in Tablet functionality?

Thanks!

fuscob · #6 Post by **fuscob** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:59 am

snots wrote:Hi, I had the same question as the orig. poster: which is better for *tablet* (inking / etc) functionality: Vista (32/64) or XP?

I will get 2 gigs of ram so I don't care about 4 gigs of ram.

I heard that Vista is better for inking (has some improvements?) and also it scales DPI up better so windows are less awkwardly sized up (font-wise), as compared to XP's DPI up-scaling.

I also heard XP Tablet edition was more of an "afterthought", so it feels more "patched" as opposed to Vista's built-in Tablet functionality?

Thanks!

I have an X60 Tablet and an X61 Tablet on the way, and I agree with everything in that post, having used both XP Tablet and Vista Business on my X60t.

XIII · #7 Post by **XIII** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:54 pm

Vista has much better support for tablet comparing to XP tablet.
My suggestion would be to try out both before deciding.

snots · #8 Post by **snots** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:08 pm

This site has some suppport for why Vista is better.

http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/ ... ion_1.html

Apparently, Vista learns to recognize your handwriting over time, XP doesn't. Vista has better all-around built-in support for tablets as well.

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