Comments on: MSI Wind gets the Vista Ultimate treatment

By: Wesley

Wesley — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:21:44 +0000

Listen up!!!! Just wanted to confirm for others that Vista works great on my lenovo s10 which is the same exact thing as the msi wind. The only upgrade i’ve done (highly recommended!!) was a swap of the 512mb to 2gb ram, so now I got 2.5gb of ram (xp only detected 1.99gb of ram). Other then that its stock, same specs as the msi wind. I’m keeping vista on here, suprisingly i feel its faster then xp so snappy and aero works great!

Try vista on your net top and you won’t want to go back to xp.. Happy i did it… thats my 2 cents.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:15:03 +0000

What did you do to resolve the BT driver issue?

By: Lubos

Lubos — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:59:26 +0000

Hi, i have completly same netbook (with 2GB RAM) bud my “vista index” is only 1.0 cause of Gaming Graphics. I’ve downloaded lastest video driver and still have 1.0! Tell me please how can I reach 2.7 as you? Pls thanks a lot buddy
p48w@seznam.cz

By: Anna

Anna — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:54:46 +0000

I wanna use happily use XP ever after.

By: AnnaBannanna

AnnaBannanna — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:53:55 +0000

Hi Anna,

What about a 10-foot barge pole, that might put enough distance between you a Vista to consider touching it. Otherwise Windows 7 is your salvation, I’ve run it even on the HP Mini-note 2133 and am impressed by its performance, definitely better than Vista. Shame the damn thing still gets hot, but that’s the hardware’s fault, not Vista’s or Windows 7. Damn you HP and your Via C7 fetish at the time!

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:15:48 +0000

I installed Win XP SP2 Pro in 12 minutes - I'm not touching Vista with a pole.

By: Travis

Travis — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:17:50 +0000

@Daniel
Some folks on eeeuser.com forums report that the 1000H has better battery life with Vista.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:02:52 +0000

Does it still run well if you enable the "power saving" settings? I have a eeepc 1000H and I was thinking about installing vista, but only if it doesn't like cut the battery life in half...

By: DoBlur

DoBlur — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:50:04 +0000

i meant that it might be worth Vista on a UMPC because of the vastly superior tablet features

i have done half-dozen machines now with XP & Vista, all of them had compatible drivers for both OS's. although i like Vista, it was slower on everyone of them. not in terms of GUI responsiveness (like evreyone else seems to judge) but things such as media playback, editing, rendering, etc.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:46:35 +0000

I used Vista with SP1 for the install.

By: William C Bonner

William C Bonner — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:44:05 +0000

You say that you were able to get correct drivers from windows update after you installed vista. What version of vista media were you installing from? Did you have a version that includes SP1, or the original version?

By: AFD

AFD — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:39:45 +0000

Wow, other than the processor, those are much better WEI scores than my Sony TZ.

Definitely good performance for the money!

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:19:51 +0000

Why would the "extra sluggishness" be worth it on a UMPC over a netbook in your opinion? Curious what advantage you see there in the different form factor. I'm also assuming you've installed Vista on UMPCs and netbooks, so how much more sluggishness did you see?

By: DoBlur

DoBlur — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:10:14 +0000

if it were a UMPC i might say the extra sluggishness of Vista would be worth it. but for just a notebook/netbook i would probably stick with XP as Vista just doesnt offer much more.

one thing that bugs me to hell, on low powered machines media playback is FAR better in XP than Vista. which is a big big deal in little laptops that can masquerade as PMP's quite easily.