I am currently running xp and want to upgrade to vista and was wondering if it would slow down my computers performance. I have a laptop with a intel core duo 2.0 ghz, 512mb nvidia quadro, and 2 gb of memory. Also i use my computer to run programs like autocad and photoshop. So would the upgrade slow my perfomance down?

your specs are ok. what you have to find out is if your computer hardware has the right driver for Vista. from the specs you gave me it looks your laptop is pretty recent so you should not have any issue but before risking visit your laptop website and see if it has the most recent driver (vista comatible) webmaster of http://www.webtlk.com WebMaster of www.webtlk.com

Well it might slow it down a bit, but it shouldn't be a problem. You might go for Vista 64 bit as well to improve the speed, but don't know if your drivers supports it. -------------------- Thor Byrgesen: The one, oh the one computers and all electronics just hate.

I'd only update if I had to because of some other software issue. Not worth the money in my opinion. A new laptop with vista installed would be a better solution but again only if you had to. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, are in my top 10

Well the laptop is a dell precision and its one year old. I had the option to get vista or xp on it. I choose xp because at the time i only had programs that were compatible with xp such as autocad 2006 and adobe cs2. I have recently upgraded the software that i use and want to upgrade to vista because i got it for dirt cheap through my school.

I'd still save it. Your system seems to be working fine. Don't fix it. (I don't usually follow that advice) "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, are in my top 10