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3.0 stars
"Vista is too much for this...And what's with the battery?"
Pros: Fast with XP, looks cool
Cons: Slow with Vista, Battery issue
Summary: Being a system Admin, I quickly took an image of the default drive (preloaded Vista basic which is sooooooooo slow) and then installed and tested Windows XP Professional. With Windows XP it's a different story. It runs very smooth and quick, which tells me that either the driver set they have for Vista isn't mature or Vista is a Memory hog (or both). Not to mention that 512MB just isn't going to cut it anymore. I purchased an additional 1GB of RAM.
Although I am quite impressed with the XP install, the battery only worked once for 2 hours after full charging. Now the battery is staying at 0%, even though I've had it plugged in for 3 days. Not a good sign. I hope this is just a "one off" bad battery situation as I do like HP equipment. Maybe that's why they were so cheap.
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How did you test with XP. HP does not provide drivers for XP. ONly for Vista Currently according to their website right.
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