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Vista Business or XP Pro SP2
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:07 am
by andycooly
I have the option of Vista Business and Xp professional with service pack 2. For my 3 year old laptop which originally ran vista. Which should I pick?
Re: Vista Business or XP Pro SP2
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:17 am
by Gaigemasta
Xp pro sp2
Rules nowadays is DONT FUCK WITH VISTA!
Re: Vista Business or XP Pro SP2
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:22 am
by [SD]Master_Wong
^^ xp or win 7 are the only 2 real windows choices, linux is good if you want something different
Re: Vista Business or XP Pro SP2
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:08 pm
by Amarisa
XP is getting old. If your laptop came with vista it will run it just fine. After SP2 came out for Vista it has become just as stable as win7.
I ran Vista Business for 8 months and not one issue. Hell I had more issues in win7 and XP.
Re: Vista Business or XP Pro SP2
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:49 pm
by [SD]Twysta
Well considering your laptop is 3 years old, i'd go with XP.
That will increase its performance and in 2 years from now - when XP is virtually non existant - you need a new laptop anyway.
Vista would be the "best" choice really because of the support and drivers, but your laptop is 3 years old and the things you do on it won't be playing Crysis or rendering images/video I assume because in that case you'd have a better system.
Te recap, I'd go with XP since your laptop is old, and by the time XP is completely off the grid, you need a new system anyway. So going with XP now allows you to increase the laptop's performance.
that'd be my choice
Re: Vista Business or XP Pro SP2
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:51 pm
by asusi
Windows 7 anyone?..
Re: Vista Business or XP Pro SP2
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:36 pm
by Dyegov
If you cannot get a hold of windows 7 (It will run, trust me, it runs surprisingly well on a 7 years old pc of mine), then go with XP and get SP3 for it. No need to mess with Vista... ugh!
Re: Vista Business or XP Pro SP2
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:24 pm
by Key-J
I'd go with XP Pro.
Your already gimpling yourself with the fact that your Vista OS is the "Buisness" version
Re: Vista Business or XP Pro SP2
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:05 am
by Amarisa
Dyegov wrote:If you cannot get a hold of windows 7 (It will run, trust me, it runs surprisingly well on a 7 years old pc of mine), then go with XP and get SP3 for it. No need to mess with Vista... ugh!
Unless he has the 64bit version and that only goes up to SP2
Re: Vista Business or XP Pro SP2
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:37 am
by Hapjap
vista imo. dunnno why everyone had problems with vista. i built a computer in 2007 all the drivers/programs worked fine. only a couple incompatible programs that could still be run in "compatibility mode". by now most programs are fully compatible with vista anyways. everything runs as fast , but vista just looks better imo.
Re: Vista Business or XP Pro SP2
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:13 am
by andycooly
Hmm leaning towards vista.
Re: Vista Business or XP Pro SP2
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:26 am
by William-CL
You know how many problems I've had with Vista?
Zero
Re: Vista Business or XP Pro SP2
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 3:28 pm
by apan
I run Vista Ultimate x64, works almost perfectly. Don't understand what people disslike about Vista?