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Posted by J. Clarke on June 7, 2006, 9:09 am
Please log in for more thread options Barrabas wrote:
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>> No it is not true. My Toshiba A105 is Vista capable (per the Vista
>> advisor program), even including the Aero interface, and it only has
>> chipset video (Intel Graphics Accelerator 900). I was looking at the
>> Dell web site today and the vast, vast majority of their notebooks are
>> Vista and Aero capable.
>>
>> I'd almost go so far as to say that any laptop being sold today will be
>> Vista capable, at the very least without Aero, if you upgrade memory (512
>> megs or more, after deducting whatever is used by a shared memory video
>> system) and possibly the hard drive. A smaller number, but probably
>> still most, will run the Aero interface, but Vista can run even if Aero
>> is not supported.
>>
>> As for DirectX, I think you happened to download a beta version of DX
>> intended (at least at this time) only for the people who are beta testing
>> Vista. However, it is possible that DX 9 is the last version of DX for
>> XP and that DX 10 will not be backwards compatible to XP.
>
> I'm a little new to laptops. I was told once that the operating system it
> comes
> with is the one it's meant to stay with, dual booting notwithstanding.
I have a P233 Thinkpad that came with Windows 95 that is running fine under
Windows 2000. I could put XP on it but it really doesn't have enough
processor power or RAM for that--all the drivers are available though.
> What about all the Toshiba applications running, such as power saver and
> such,
> what happens to those if I upgrade?
Generally the power saver is a function of the chipset and not of anything
special on the computer--the chipset is made by Intel or Via or SIS or
someone, not Toshiba, and there are generic drivers.
> I'm not supposed to use graphics card driver upgrades that aren't on the
> Toshiba
> website. I tried once and one of my favourite options vanished and I
> quickly reverted
> (maintain aspect ratio) on an ATI card.
ATI for reasons known only to them turns off Mobility support in the drivers
on their Web site--you can work around this any of several ways, the
easiest being to use the Omega drivers instead of the ATI (Omega's drivers
are not third-party, they are the same drivers that you get from ATI but
Omega has tweaked a number of options, one of them being that support for
the Mobility chips is turned on).
The most likely area of difficulty is the Wifi chip--if it's an Intel then
you've got no problem, but if it's Broadcomm the drivers may be hard to
come by.
> The latest version of DirectX being the last for XP seems very odd.
Yep.
>
> John
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>> Barrabas wrote:
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>>> Is it true that all the laptop computers sold now with Windows XP are
>>> recommended
>>> not to be upgraded to Vista?
>>> I found something worrying. I got the DirectX SDK in April off
>>> the Microsoft website.
>>> The samples include ones using DirectX 10. When trying to run them
>>> I get a message saying, 'Vista or later' and they won't run on XP.
>>>
>>> In the past new version of DirectX always worked on an OS a few years
>>> old.
>>> Windows 95 worked with up to DirectX 8.1. What is different?
>>>
>>>
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--John
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