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I installed Vista Home Preium on my HP notebook dv5094ea. Everything is
great and there has been no issue until I put my duo card (pro-duo in its
adaptor) into the card slot. Nothing happened. I updated the flash bios
from the HP website and this has at least got the card recognised. Now I can't read my pro duo card with photographs on it?
Any ideas?

amd turion 64
vista Home Premium
1000Mb ram

Billy

Hi Folks,

I'm looking at investing in a new notebook in a month or so and with Vista appearing on the market, I'm looking to run it on the new notebook. Thing is I'm not too sure how it would run on the spec I'm looking at , so if any of you could help us out it would be appreciated.

At the moment I'm looking at a Dell Inspiron 6400 with the following main specs.....

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T5500 (1.66 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache, 667 MHz FSB)
1024MB 533MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x512)
256MB ATI® Mobility™ Radeon® X1400 HyperMemory™ graphics card

I recently updated my XP home to Vista Home Premium. I did use the upgrade advisor and the only thing recommended was that I upgrade my RAM (512) to 1 GB. Something that I plan on doing very soon.

Right now my notebook (Alienware) is running with the 512 MB of RAM, and running Vista pretty slow. My notebook is also currently running with a video card that my computer defines as this...

Caption: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600
Adapter RAM: 128MB
DriverVersion: 6.14.10.7810

From what I understand this video card is at least above average. But still, my vista does not load with the complete Aero theme, nor will it allow me to use the windows 3d Flip (Alt-tab) feature. When I go into the control panel and go to performance information, my graphics and gaming graphics both got scores of 1.9 and 1.0 respectively. Is it my video card or the lack of RAM that is making my computer not run these features and be "inferior" in the graphics department. I thought I had a good video card at least.

The ATI Radeon IGP 345M integrated video card in my Sony Vaio PCG-K33 notebook doesn't support the Windows Aero interface as it's lacking Pixel Shader 2.0.

I just finished having a lengthy conversation with someone on Sony's Technical Support Chat. I asked them about an alternative, already knowing that it's integrated and that it can't be upgraded (or easily, at least). They ended up saying that "the computer came with a PCMCIA CardBus slot which could be used with a video card". I'm a bit skeptical on whether or not there's a video card of any sort that can be used in the PCMCIA slot, but that gives me reason to yell at Sony some more if there isn't.

First of all, you need to decide what you need in your notebook . Most are going to be equipped with office programs, Internet access, and other basic computer functions. For most of us, that is plenty. If there is more you need, then you should consult with a professional to find out what exactly it is you need to have on the notebook when you go to look for it. With most being similarly equipped, though, you will probably want to find something affordable and reliable.