IBM T60 vista upgrade

Hey all,
I bought a T60 in December 06, Opted for the ATI Radeon 128 video. Just
received a vista upgrade DVD from lenovo. Just wondering if anyone has done
this yet. I really like my machine the way it is. Everything works great, no
problems at all. I am using office & visio 2003.
My question is: Can I restore my system back to XP if I don't like vista?
Will that aero work on this?

tmfast wrote:
>
> I bought a T60 in December 06, Opted for the ATI Radeon 128 video.
> Just received a vista upgrade DVD from lenovo. Just wondering if
> anyone has done this yet. I really like my machine the way it is.
> Everything works great, no problems at all. I am using office &
> visio 2003. My question is: Can I restore my system back to XP
> if I don't like vista? Will that aero work on this?

I don't know, but Vista is a disaster. See the following links.

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If the laptop is working the way you like it why go to Vista? Vista is in
it's early buggy stage. I wouldn't go to it for at least a year.The only
reason to go to it is if something you needed would only run on Vista...


"tmfast" <> wrote in message
news:2k0Mh.11634$e47.6992@trnddc05...
> Hey all,
> I bought a T60 in December 06, Opted for the ATI Radeon 128 video. Just
> received a vista upgrade DVD from lenovo. Just wondering if anyone has
> done this yet. I really like my machine the way it is. Everything works
> great, no problems at all. I am using office & visio 2003.
> My question is: Can I restore my system back to XP if I don't like vista?
> Will that aero work on this?
>

tmfast wrote:

> My question is: Can I restore my system back to XP if I don't like vista?

If you have the original recovery cd's for the XP system, then yes. It
overwrites all data to a factory restore for that OS. No matter what OS
you put on the disk before.
But don't count on the system to restore to the XP state from the rescue
and recovery partition after you installed Vista on it from the
IBM/Lenovo CD/DVD.
My suggestion is if you like the system and only want to experiment with
Vista: just use a second harddisk, install the XP system and try the
upgrade on that disk. Imho Vista is not worth the upgrade if you like
the system now. Besides the fact the OS has not proven itselve yet.
S.

Whoa,
Thats all I need to hear. Thank you all for your advise. I did not have a
good fealing about just doing it. I will just leave it alone. I will shelf
the Vista, and look at it.

"tmfast" <> wrote in message
news:2k0Mh.11634$e47.6992@trnddc05...
> Hey all,
> I bought a T60 in December 06, Opted for the ATI Radeon 128 video. Just
> received a vista upgrade DVD from lenovo. Just wondering if anyone has
> done this yet. I really like my machine the way it is. Everything works
> great, no problems at all. I am using office & visio 2003.
> My question is: Can I restore my system back to XP if I don't like vista?
> Will that aero work on this?
>

On Mar 20, 9:59 pm, "tmfast" <tmf...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Hey all,
> Just received a vista upgrade

vista upgrade.... there's an oxymoron! ;-)

wrote:
> On Mar 20, 9:59 pm, "tmfast" <tmf...@verizon.net> wrote:
>> Hey all,
>> Just received a vista upgrade
>
> vista upgrade.... there's an oxymoron! ;-)
>

Jeanette wrote:
I have my vista upgrade sitting on my shelf waiting for the next time I
need to reinstall XP.

Right now everything is great so no rush to Vista

Jeanette Russo wrote:
> wrote:
>> On Mar 20, 9:59 pm, "tmfast" <tmf...@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Just received a vista upgrade
>>
>> vista upgrade.... there's an oxymoron! ;-)
>
> I have my vista upgrade sitting on my shelf waiting for the next
> time I need to reinstall XP.
>
> Right now everything is great so no rush to Vista

Read the following URLs

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<http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt>
<http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/423>

"A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much."
-- Francis Crick, co-discover of DNA
"There is nothing more amazing than stupidity in action."
-- Thomas Matthews


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