ok i got this toshiba p15 for free i just needed to replace the inverter and buy it a charger. Anyways im gona give it to my freind but she wants it to run vista ( because its pretty ) anyways i dont really care im sure it can handle it but the problem is can i find drivers for it i found some nvidia 5100 go drivers but i need the wireless drivers and all sorts of crap drivers ( currently its not running batterys dead ) well what do you guys think the specs on it are
pentium 4 2.8ghz
nvidia fx 5100 go 32mb
Atheros B/g w/lan ( i think )
60gb 5400rpm hard drive
512mb of ram ( might upgrade to 1.25gb though)
also i know itll run fine with vista in a way because i put vista on my freinds laptop with 512mb of ram and a 1.6ghz amd sempron 3000+ or maybe it was 1.8ghz regardless it ran fine just cant have bloat ware.
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It won't be able to run Aero (the pretty GUI of Vista) due to the graphics card.
Otherwise many-most things should work OTB.
And the 1.8 Sempron is better than that Pentium 4 -
i think it will run aero i was looking around on the internet and i found http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=15426 it says it will and also my freinds laptop has a 1.8ghz sempron 32bit socket 754 this laptop has a desktop pentium 4 2.8ghz socket 478 not a pentium m if you thought that because its a laptop yes i know way to much for a laptop lol
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Socket 754 is 64bits, 32bits Sempron are on socket A.
While the Go 5100 might be able to run Aero, it will be extremly slow (it's a 32MB card. Aero needs a 128MB one), and probably not a good ideo to use it. -
turions in socket 754 are 64 bit and sempron 64 are 64 bit ( thoes are desktop ) mobil semprons are 32 bit im pretty sure also it just has to run its not that graphic intensive imo
Toshiba P15-S409 vista help
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