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tidefan94   05-12-2009 at 04:26:27 AM

First off sorry about this, there really is no good forum for this, so I just decided to ask it here.

I have a $1000 hp pavilion dv9000 from a couple of years ago. I recently got a new desktop, and I'd like to turn the laptop into a work type of laptop. Because of this I was wanting an OS that is really light on it. I was going to wipe it clean anyways, so the question is what OS should I use.

Ubuntu 9.04 (mainly because it's free), Windows XP (low system specs), Vista (what i have now), or Windows 7/RC 1 (because I hear it runs really well on laptops)

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notherdude   05-13-2009 at 06:35:16 PM
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what are the specs? If you have two gig of ram and a dual core CPU I'd just stick with Vista, it's really not the system hog some people make it out to be. A gig of RAM? I'd probably go back to XP which is very happy with that much RAM. Be usre you can find drivers though - some laptops made to run Vista lack full XP support.

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tidefan94   05-14-2009 at 12:53:00 AM
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notherdude wrote :

what are the specs? If you have two gig of ram and a dual core CPU I'd just stick with Vista, it's really not the system hog some people make it out to be. A gig of RAM? I'd probably go back to XP which is very happy with that much RAM. Be usre you can find drivers though - some laptops made to run Vista lack full XP support.



Alrite thanks, it has two gig of ram, and it is a dual core, so I'll just stick with Vista. The reason I asked is because I wanted to maximize the life of it, and have it run really smoothly. Do you suggest just uninstalling all the programs I don't need?

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notherdude   05-14-2009 at 06:00:42 AM
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tidefan94 wrote :

Alrite thanks, it has two gig of ram, and it is a dual core, so I'll just stick with Vista. The reason I asked is because I wanted to maximize the life of it, and have it run really smoothly. Do you suggest just uninstalling all the programs I don't need?


If you still have the factory install of Vista from HP then yes, I would try to uninstall any and everything I could that isn't necessary - on my Toshiba I did a fresh install of Vista and then added the needed drivers one by one from Toshiba instead of using their factory install. You'll need to use a little caution in making sure you don't uninstall any feature or program you might really want. www.pcdecrapifier.com does a good job of automating this process.

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notherdude u have an old hand. Having an old hand doesnt make sence. Cuz its old. get a new one.. seems like ur hand doesnt understand what it is writing. So placve it in ur rig instead of vista human orgnoids will amke more sense
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