Comments on: Vista on a Tablet

By: tim

tim — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:29:06 +0000

How to use Vista on a Tablet for conferences?

Just fold down the lid

I mean using it as a kind of notepad, not for virtual conferences – though you could do that too.

Tim

By: Evgeniy Tic

Evgeniy Tic — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:21:35 +0000

How to use Vista on a Tablet for conferences?
Thank you!

By: chris

chris — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:07:55 +0000

well i’m happy with my XPpro but changing to vista is now my priority in my hand now is the RC1 copy of Vista. installed it and its working. had a hard time with the video driver for nvidia, download helps.. A lot.. since Rc1 is a time bomb waiting to expire.. i’m now trying to crack it down..

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:10:35 +0000

Thanks for the report Nigel.

Mine is going OK; the main problem I’ve had (after sorting the graphics driver) is with resume failures. The latest BIOS update does seem to have helped, but I’m reserving judgment.

Tim

By: Nigel

Nigel — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:59:12 +0000

I am dual-booting XP Pro and Vista on an M400. It runs very well and the screen display is brilliant. I originally ran an in-place upgrade from RC1 to RTM which was an unmitigated disaster, but probably to be expected. A clean install solved all the problems. Downloading/installing approx 30 Vista drivers from Toshiba was a pain but unavoidable.

I do have two issues at present: (1) I receive regular “The print spooler service has failed” messages, and (2) the “Software updates are available from Toshiba” routine ALWAYS fails. Ideas, anyone?

Office 2007 on the above is running fine except for Outlook 2007 which is slower than treacle (it’s the same on my desktop PC as well). Completely unacceptable. Until it is mended, there is no way I could roll this out to our users.

A totally unrelated comment concerns the accuracy of the speech recognition: it’s excellent. There are a (very) few words it simply refuses to recognise, but that’s life. (Strangely ‘alcohol’ is one of them – the spelling thereof is slurred 8-))).

Vista on the M400 – go for it.

Nigel.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:10:28 +0000

John,

It is getting better all the time. The latest Microsoft updates to Vista seem to have helped too. That said, you are right to be cautious. The most pressing problem is the graphics driver; once that is sorted I could recommend it.

Tim

By: John A Thomson

John A Thomson — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:15:10 +0000

I’ve also got a Tosh M400 but I’m hanging off until Toshiba release the full set of Vista RTM drivers. Was expecting to see them about now, well considering they had previously indicated the drivers would be available about the same time as Vista. But alas, Toshiba have yet to do the needful.

Who thinks they are having big problems getting the drivers up to their quality standards?

I’ll be watching your blog for any updates on your Vista experience with the M400!