Hi Everyone,
I am wondering if a Compaq Presario V5000 can run Windows Vista. This laptop has an AMD 787MHz chip and running 896MB of RAM. I am figuring with such limited hardware resources, it will not be able to run this more advance OS. Currently, it is running Windows XP.
Any followup to this question will be appreciated.
Thank you
George
I had an opportunity to look closer at the RAM and CPU specs of this laptop. It does have 1GB of RAM with some of it shadowed or reserved for system memory. I believe the BIOS indicated 250MB being reserved for video which explains the 896MB of RAM indicated within Windows. With respect to the processor, the actual speed of it is 1.8GHz. Interestingly, when the laptop was wiped and Windows XP reinstalled for troubleshooting reasons, the processor speed then was accurately reported. I am not sure why the previous version of XP inaccurately reported the processor speed. If someone has some followup thoughts regarding this discrepancy, I am certainly interested in learning more regarding that matter.
Given the limited system resources such as amount of RAM and slow processor speed, I must agree that Vista can probably be installed, but, would run apps and games very slowly. As such, it probably would not be a good idea to make such an upgrade given the hardware specs of this laptop.
Thanks again everyone for the shared input. All of the information given was well put together and certainly thought provoking.
George