Comments on: ATI and NVIDIA Abandoning Vista Laptops? http://chris.pirillo.com/ati-and-nvidia-abandoning-vista-laptops/ News and Reviews! Geek, Internet Entrepreneur, Hardware Addict, Software Junkie, Book Author, Once TV Show Host, Technology Enthusiast, Shameless Self-Promoter, Tech Conference Coordinator, Early Adopter, Idea Evangelist, Tech Support Blogger, Bootstrapper, Media Personality, Technology Consultant, Thicker Quicker Picker Upper. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Vista audio and video drivers not available for older laptops? at Vista Review http://chris.pirillo.com/ati-and-nvidia-abandoning-vista-laptops/#comment-489672 Vista audio and video drivers not available for older laptops? at Vista Review Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:29:11 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/07/20/ati-and-nvidia-abandoning-vista-laptops/#comment-489672 [...] Chris says that the real problems are when you try to customize and push the system beyond what the normal defaults are.  Audio problems, video problems, driver problems, and more.  There appears to be so many problems that in this post he talks about the fact that ATI and nVIDIA have quietly not providing Vista ready ATI mobility and nVIDIA go drivers.  What seems to happenning is that people are being forced to buy new laptops with new hardware, and once again hardware that was purchased  as “Vista ready” is not. [...] [...] Chris says that the real problems are when you try to customize and push the system beyond what the normal defaults are.  Audio problems, video problems, driver problems, and more.  There appears to be so many problems that in this post he talks about the fact that ATI and nVIDIA have quietly not providing Vista ready ATI mobility and nVIDIA go drivers.  What seems to happenning is that people are being forced to buy new laptops with new hardware, and once again hardware that was purchased  as “Vista ready” is not. [...]

]]> By: Kenny Kerr http://chris.pirillo.com/ati-and-nvidia-abandoning-vista-laptops/#comment-481321 Kenny Kerr Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:02:09 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/07/20/ati-and-nvidia-abandoning-vista-laptops/#comment-481321 Although I’ve had trouble with ATI, NVIDIA has been excellent with respect to providing high quality drivers for Vista in my experience. The biggest challenge for notebooks is getting the notebook vendor to supply the drivers. NVIDIA does not always provide the drivers for OEM video adapters directly but Dell and others should provide them for their systems. Even if they don’t you still have options since NVIDIA uses a universal driver model for all their video adapters and http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ provides its own installers for virtually any NVIDIA based notebook. Although I’ve had trouble with ATI, NVIDIA has been excellent with respect to providing high quality drivers for Vista in my experience. The biggest challenge for notebooks is getting the notebook vendor to supply the drivers. NVIDIA does not always provide the drivers for OEM video adapters directly but Dell and others should provide them for their systems. Even if they don’t you still have options since NVIDIA uses a universal driver model for all their video adapters and http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ provides its own installers for virtually any NVIDIA based notebook.

]]> By: Julie http://chris.pirillo.com/ati-and-nvidia-abandoning-vista-laptops/#comment-480885 Julie Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:21:11 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/07/20/ati-and-nvidia-abandoning-vista-laptops/#comment-480885 Beyond the splash screens for ATI, Windows XP runs quite well. As for Vista, I'll wait until it's got a service pack on it. Gnomie 715 Beyond the splash screens for ATI, Windows XP runs quite well. As for Vista, I’ll wait until it’s got a service pack on it.

Gnomie 715

]]> By: Mike Woodhouse http://chris.pirillo.com/ati-and-nvidia-abandoning-vista-laptops/#comment-480387 Mike Woodhouse Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:30:58 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/07/20/ati-and-nvidia-abandoning-vista-laptops/#comment-480387 Life for the new PC buyer is not made easier by the fact (one that I discovered the hard way) that Windows XP install CDs don't understand, or at least don't contain drivers for SATA disk controllers. Which for most of the world constitutes sufficient cause to U-turn straight back to Vista, for all its faults. Life for the new PC buyer is not made easier by the fact (one that I discovered the hard way) that Windows XP install CDs don’t understand, or at least don’t contain drivers for SATA disk controllers. Which for most of the world constitutes sufficient cause to U-turn straight back to Vista, for all its faults.

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