Vista on Celeron

Posted Saturday, November 25, 2006 6:52 PM by Shunjie

While many are getting Intel Core 2 Duo for Vista, I managed to install it on a Celeron on 512 ram for fun.The installation is very smooth and fast. 

The performance is acceptable. For some reason however, Vista detect it as 384 MB of ram after installation. Looking at the Windows Experience Index make me laugh. But basically this is a PC for my mum to surf net and check email, so it is sufficient.

However, I cannot get my creative sound card and my LeadTek TV Tuner card to work. I guess will have to wait for a few months before the drivers will be released.

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# re: Vista on Celeron

Saturday, November 25, 2006 10:07 PM by sascha/hdrs

the vista driver dilemma! I cannot get a driver for my soundcard, logitech mouse and webcam and some minor other peripherals. It looks as if the manufacturers haven't noticed yet that Vista is already available as beta since a year or longer. Also there is currently no third party firewall that is compatible with Vista! And you don't seriously want to rely on the MS firewall, do you?!! Before these things are not fixed I will not/cannot start using Vista.

# re: Vista on Celeron

Saturday, November 25, 2006 10:14 PM by Shunjie

Indeed. I am not having it on production machine either. =)

# re: Vista on Celeron

Sunday, November 26, 2006 1:34 AM by TJ Downes

I been using Vista for quite some time now and I can say that drivers are the primary danger in using Vista. Wait, wait, wait is all I can say. If you try to ue XP drivers you may experience complete and unrecoverable system crashes. I have rebuilt a PC 4x due to installing XP drivers... not a fault of the OS at all, my fault for trying to install incorrect drivers. Personally, i won't be recommending Vista to clients until 8-12 months after release. I realy like it, especially on dual core PCs with 2GB+ RAM, but it just is not ready for public consumption until the manufacturers have drivers for new and old hardware alike.