Installing XPHome on a new laptop (which comes with Vista)

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d4005

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Hi,

I'm looking to buy a new laptop and have been considering a Dell or an Acer Aspire 7720, but I'm not sure whether I'll have success installing XP Home on it. I know that it would install of course, no doubt about that, but I wonder whether I'll be able to find all the drivers I'd need to get it running optimally.

My thinking is that the latest laptops from the likes of Acer, Dell, Toshiba etc are all sold exclusively with Vista, so perhaps they haven't bothered developing drivers for XP.

Has anyone bought a new laptop (in the last 6 months or so) and installed XP on it? Did you have any trouble finding drivers for it?
 
i cant see any driver problems happening... the only problem would be getting xp installed on a vista system... which is easily fixed by reformatting using something such as Gparted anyway
 
I just bought an Acer 4315 which came with Vista Home Premium, and after looking at their website they ONLY have drivers available for Vista, not for XP. Now I don't know if Windows XP would have recognized the network adapters and GPU information, if it didn't then you may be out of luck if they use less well known manufacturers.
 
I spent 3 days on a laptop for a guy who wanted to go back to xp.. What is the main reason you are wanting to go back to xp? have you expirenced vista at all or used it? My main advice to people is use it for a month if you dont like it make a virtual pc with xp on it and you will be sure you can still use all your drivers as most new devices are not made for xp anymore and in june you cant buy it anymore. Vista is the future people get used to it its unfortuinate most people just are not open minded hell i even have it at work now its coming and there isnt much you can do to stop it lol..
 
I was thinking about doing the same thing if I ever get a laptop but I don't want to deal with the hassle and like codeman said, it's the future and we might as well get used to it.
 
Yes I've tried it and found it to be incredibly slow, wasn't compatible with several applications I've bought (from smaller companies and shareware which I rely on), and I don't know of anything it does better than XP. It's therefore a step backwards to switch to Vista. I want my next OS to run faster than my current one, and offer me more flexibility and compatibility rather than less. I had no such reluctance to upgrade from 3.1 to 95, 95 to 98, 98 to 2K and then 2K to XP (although this last one did have similar compatibility issues, but not anywhere close to as bad as going to Vista). In terms of Virtual machines, I have all Windows OS'es as VM's (including Vista). I'd much rather be running Vista as a VM on XP, than the other way around.

The biggest negative though, in terms of this laptop purchase, is that I might be buying it in Germany (where I live), but I won't be wanting a German Vista on it. I can speak the lingo, but not such that living with German Vista will be comfortable.
 
Hate to tell you this but as of june no one will be able to buy vista as M$ will no longer offer it and many larger companies have already stopped selling xp and xp compatable items. If you want a laptop with xp you should look into a business quality one as they still have xp on them until june...
 
codeman0013 said:
Hate to tell you this but as of june no one will be able to buy vista as M$ will no longer offer it
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What complete BS! Microsoft is going to be selling Vista until they release their new OS. If you get rid of Vista, what OS will Microsoft sell?
 
[-0MEGA-];901481 said:
What complete BS! Microsoft is going to be selling Vista until they release their new OS. If you get rid of Vista, what OS will Microsoft sell?
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He wrote Vista but meant XP I guess.

I already bought my fresh XP Home from Amazon. Just waiting for a fresh laptop to put it on.
 
I have an HP laptop that came with Vista Home and we're currently running XP Pro on it. We reformatted the hard drive and did a fresh XP install. The biggest issue we had was that XP wouldn't recognize the integrated network adapter so we have to use a wireless network adapter in the USB now. It's cosmetically annoying but functionally fine. XP did speed the computer up considerably and the fresh install negated the tons and tons of freeware that comes with HP's. Good luck.

- Joy
 
Vista is a good stable program but it has way too many things starting up and running in the back ground.

Do a MSCONFIG and turn off a lot of that stuff at start up.You will notice a huge difference
 
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