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Prince · 10-26-2007, 07:26 PM

A couple of months ago I bought my first laptop, an Acer Aspire 5570z. I love it.

But I no longer have the same sentiment for the Vista Home Premium it occupies. I mean, yes, it looks really good. I like a lot of the new features.

But it has gotten so slow. It takes 8-9 seconds from when I click on an icon for it to launch Excel, or PowerPoint, for example, when no other applications are running.

A fresh install is very fast, but after a few weeks of use and installing the apps I like to use, it's considerably slower than my P4 1.6GHz desktop. This dual core machine should outperform the Dell easily.

Of course, XP bogs down too, in time, but it takes a considerably longer to happen. And usually with XP, I can do at least something to optimize the performance. I haven't found anything really that I could do on Vista that would help. I tried running defrag but it said no defrag needed.

Now, the problem is that Acer doesn't support XP on these notebooks and I've heard it is hard to locate all the drivers. I am wondering if any of you have any experience with something like this...if any of you have bought a recent laptop and replaced the OS with XP, and whether it worked, and whether it was worth it.

Because seriously, my desktop is pretty old and yet XP runs on it really fast. I'd assume it would perform at least as well on this notebook, and perhaps be able to make the most of its resources...

10-26-2007, 07:26 PM	#1 (permalink)
Prince /nɑndəsˈkrɪpt/ Location: LV-426	So, I'd like to replace Vista... A couple of months ago I bought my first laptop, an Acer Aspire 5570z. I love it. But I no longer have the same sentiment for the Vista Home Premium it occupies. I mean, yes, it looks really good. I like a lot of the new features. But it has gotten so slow. It takes 8-9 seconds from when I click on an icon for it to launch Excel, or PowerPoint, for example, when no other applications are running. A fresh install is very fast, but after a few weeks of use and installing the apps I like to use, it's considerably slower than my P4 1.6GHz desktop. This dual core machine should outperform the Dell easily. Of course, XP bogs down too, in time, but it takes a considerably longer to happen. And usually with XP, I can do at least something to optimize the performance. I haven't found anything really that I could do on Vista that would help. I tried running defrag but it said no defrag needed. Now, the problem is that Acer doesn't support XP on these notebooks and I've heard it is hard to locate all the drivers. I am wondering if any of you have any experience with something like this...if any of you have bought a recent laptop and replaced the OS with XP, and whether it worked, and whether it was worth it. Because seriously, my desktop is pretty old and yet XP runs on it really fast. I'd assume it would perform at least as well on this notebook, and perhaps be able to make the most of its resources... __________________ Who is John Galt?