I recently bought some Asus UMPC for work...well work bought them. It was shipped with XP on it and we didn't plan bumping it up to Vista. So when the disc came in the mail, my boss said do whatever you want with them. So naturally, I am going to upgrade my laptop with one of them.
I have already checked the specs on my laptop and it will have no problem running Vista. I also know there is the OEM trick when you install the trial version and then upgrade from that so it is basically a fresh install. So here is my question. Are the upgrade discs that companies like Asus or the ones that Dell send out just a standard Vista disc or are they loaded with tons of crap for that specific device. It also came bundled with a Driver/Bios disc which I'm sure is used to install the specific stuff for the UMPC. When I toss it in my computer, it shows up like a standard Vista setup screen.
So this should just be a standard Vista disc with an Asus stamp on it. On a side not. I have my Windows XP Professional disc so if I screw something up, I can always just format and go back to that.
I have already checked the specs on my laptop and it will have no problem running Vista. I also know there is the OEM trick when you install the trial version and then upgrade from that so it is basically a fresh install. So here is my question. Are the upgrade discs that companies like Asus or the ones that Dell send out just a standard Vista disc or are they loaded with tons of crap for that specific device. It also came bundled with a Driver/Bios disc which I'm sure is used to install the specific stuff for the UMPC. When I toss it in my computer, it shows up like a standard Vista setup screen.
So this should just be a standard Vista disc with an Asus stamp on it. On a side not. I have my Windows XP Professional disc so if I screw something up, I can always just format and go back to that.