thinking of changing from xp to vista

hello,

I.ve got an acer aspire 110 with 1.5gb of ram and with the 8gig ssd.

I have a spare key for vista and was thinking of running this on my acer.

If I vlite the vista down, will the 8gb drive be enough to run vista?

Eventually I will swap the hard drive for a 60GB Toshiba 1.8" HDD.

Or...

I might go for a install of tiny vista as this only takes up 2.4gb,


Thanks


goldfish

 

I wouldn't as I don't think the Acer has the horsepower. I'm not a Vista knocker. In fact, I have Vista installed on 2 computers in our house and for the most part, I haven't had any trouble with it. Still, sometimes it torques me off. I get a little tired of answering all the "protection" boxes that pop up on it, especially if I'm online. "Do I really want to download this, do I really want to open that website, etc."

Anyway, I can't see myself ever upgrading my Acer One from XP to the "latest and the greatest" whatever.

Re your 1.5GB memory, did you upgrade it yourself? I have the 1 GB model and would like to add the extra .5 GB, but the job looks too dangerous for me to handle on a laptop. I saw a video and didn't like moving the ribbon cables. If I could find some expert in the Seattle area, I think I would pay to have it done.

As to your question about memory, have you considered adding a SD card. I have a 16GB card that I paid $26 for. I've seen the 32GB card for about $60. Certainly, Vista will not take all of your present 8GB and with a 16/32GB card for other programs, I would think you would have a good operation. My 16GB card shows up as my D drive. I don't know what the speed of these cards are, but I would guess they would be somewhere between your SSD and a HD. I went with the 160GB HD ONLY because it came with the 6 cell battery and I didn't know about the extra SD card slot. While I'm happy with my Acer, I would have gone for the 8GB SSD that you have with a 16GB SD card. My primary use for the Acer is road work (online) and I don't need a huge storage space such as my 160GB drive.

 

hey, this is irelevant to the topic but might help you

on your first note about the vista always asking you crap, you know you can turn that off right?

1. Open Control Panel.
2. Under User Account and Family settings click on the "Add or remove user account".

3. Click on one of the user accounts, for example you can use the Guest account.
4. Under the user account click on the "Go to the main User Account page" link.

5. Under "Make changes to your user account" click on the "Change security settings" link.

6. In the "Turn on User Account Control (UAC) to make your computer more secure" click to unselect the "Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer". Click on the Ok button.

7. You will be prompted to reboot your computer. Do so when ready.



In order to re-enable UAC just select the above checkbox and reboot.


as for the SDHC card i wouldnt propose the 32gb as it has much lower read/write speed than the 16gb one apparently.. so you would probably be better off with the 16gb sd card..

 

I should have closed this thread, as I just went for it and got vista installed.

Overall vista performs just as well on my acer as xp did, fast and responsive.

The acer does have the horse power, to handle vista, read the several threads on these forums, my question was really more aimed at how vista would perform on a stock ssd.

The only major draw back is powering up from a cold start does take a bit longer than xp, so I tend to go on stand by for the cost of a tiny bit of battery life, I get a start up ( or wake up ) within a few minutes.

Oh and my battery life on vista is excellent, approximately 2hours on a stock battery on high performance power plan.

I already have a 16gb memory card in the slot, this pretty much gets used for all my installed programs and storage, to prevent slow down on the operating system drive.

The memory install is easy if your confident at taken a electronic device to bits and putting it back together, there are tonnes of guides out there on how to do this.
The whole process took me around 20mins, i would recommend you get a good set of precision screw drivers if your going to try it, as the screws can be a little tight and shear if your too rough.

 

Go ahead, make your AA1 it's day! If I can do it, you can do it. Don't forget to view the Vista drivers posts, they are ver helpful.

 

Hello,

I have the Aspire One with the 1.6gb processor and 1 gig of ram (currently, want to add ram soon) I used Partition Magic to resize the hard drive without destroying the "backup/restore" partition. I have 40 gigs for XP, 40 gigs for VIsta Basic and 60 gigs for storage (mp3s and such) and then finally the restore partition.

yes, mine is dual booted. Vista works fine for me with 1 gig of ram. The minimum requirements for Basic Vista is 512 megs. I use MS OFFICE 2007 and sometimes it hangs for a few seconds, probably due to lack of ram. Vista didn't prompt me for drivers when I installed it. My wireless works fine, mouse, etc. everything went smoooth!

Go for it, use Partition Magic and create a place to install vista, if you don't like it, remove it.

NOTE** while booted in VISTA, it sees the drive as "C" when actually it's "D". XP is on my "C" drive, Vista is on "D" storage is on "E" and recovery is "F". When sharing folders/mapping software, be careful and watch your drive letters.

hope this helps! - Dagen

 

I've found Vista to run cooler and have a better battery life than XP (or any other Linux distro I've tried apart from Linpus), so I've stuck with Vista...

The main drawback is the SSD, which I've had to make read only using FBWF, as it's just so slow. The rest of the hardware is easily up to the task, I just wish I'd bought a HDD version.

I would ideally like a Linux version that does everything I need, including (I assume) the correct CPU efficiency things Vista (and Linpus) do to prevent the CPU running so hot, and also saving battery... It's been a while since I've experimented with any OS on the AAO now, so maybe things have changed...