![]() It appear to use 256mb of shared memory from the ram, but never used it while I was testing. Let's talk about windows Experience Index:Ī curious note: Graphics is detected correctly as mobility radeon 9600. Insted of wi-fi, the bluetooth got recognized inmediately and FN+F5 worked to turn on/off the bluetooth before than hotkey installation and after it worked similar that xp. I got connected and surfed and the light was off. The wireless can be turned on and off from windows networking space with a quote: the indicator light will not turn on. when pressing FN+F5 an error appear saying something about no network card. Only one note: It don't recognize the wireless card. Installed the same hotkeys than XP and they work. It appear that Biometric Coprocessor is recognized, I'll just install fingerprinter software later. I downloaded what I found for vista in Lenovo's download site: Active Protection System, Atmel TPM. They looked similar.Īt device manager only 3 devices appear failing. ![]() I didn't notice at first time, but when I installed on my desktop machine (Athlon64 and ATI Radeon 256MB) I didn't notice diferences in the default theme. When it finished asking information rebooted and take a while for first time boot.Īt first sight I didn't note it, but as far as I know, I got Aero working. It asked me to choose wallpaper, login image, login name and password, machine name (I like this part because the default was "Melvyn-PC" instead of those stupid default names from XP). After the copying and extracting process (the most time wasted) it rebooted and start installing without questions. It took around 25 minutes of total time to install. I did it because I want to test home premium and ultimate. It asked for licence but you can skip that step "meanwhile" before activating it. ![]() It need around 5gb to copy files from DVD to hard drive according to the installer, it need almost 11gb to uncompress it and another yadah yadah. The choices in the menu were a fruitpunch: starter, home basic, home premiun, bussiness and ultimate, all them also with N version (less ultimate) and 64 bit versions, so around 13 versions. iso file with Alcohol, it got autorun and installation process started. Using Partition Magic 8, the ending partition was resized to obtain a new 20GB, primary partition at the end of the disc and the rest was shrinked to store data. A third partition was at the end of hard drive containing data. My disc already have a Windows XP Professional running on the first partition (30gb), another set of partitions host a Linux installation. According to a blog on the Microsoft Developers Network (MSDN) site, Clint Rutkas has created a small utility that automatically disables Aero.Infrared, Bluetooth, ThinkPad 11 a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Adapter II "In terms of making your battery last longer, turning off Aero will not go very far."Īlthough Vista's power manager automatically disables windows transparency when a laptop's running off battery power, there's no option to completely disable the Aero interface. Most laptop displays, he said, account for between 15% and 25% of the system's total power drain, but "in our testing we've seen that turning on Aero consumes only about 1-4% more of battery life," White argued. The drop in battery performance, reported some users, ranged between 15% and 30% compared with the same system running Windows XP SP2. ![]() Most of the criticism about Vista's laptop lifespan centered around the Aero interface, with claims batted back and forth that it did - or did not - have an impact on battery use.
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