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HardwareTablet PCInstalling Vista RTM on Toshiba M400

Installing Vista RTM on Toshiba M400

 

I finally got around this weekend to installing the RTM version of Vista on my Toshiba M400 Tablet PC. I’m typing this post on Vista right now. Everything looks nice and responds quite nicely. I’m going to try to make the switch this week to developing full-time under Vista.

The installation though was a bit rougher than I had expected (you have to have a Raid driver to proceed with the Vista installation). And not everything is working yet either (rotation, hotkey, common modules won’t install). The issue? Drivers.

In a nutshell, Vista may be RTM’ed, but in terms of drivers, we’re still in beta land.

Like others have pointed out the first step is to start by downloading the various drivers from Toshiba: http://www.csdsupport.toshiba.com/tais/csd/support/windows_vista/vista_beta.cgi?lsAction=list_files&model_id=10. You’ll notice that many of the drivers are listed as beta versions for Vista RC1 or RC2. For the sake of the mass market, I sure hope Toshiba gets the “real” drivers up on their site sooner rather than later. Why? What’s the big deal, you ask. After all the consumer version of Vista isn’t supposed to be out until the end of January 2007, which is about two months away. The word is that this should be plenty of time for Toshiba and other OEMs to get their Vista drivers in order.

Here’s the problem though: The early adopters posting about their experiences with Vista on the Internet are creating too much Vista link magic right now. So for the mass market, when they start installing Vista they are going to run into posts like this one. Maybe after six months or so more timely Vista install and driver information will bubble to the top of Google. I hope so.

Until then, my question is: How will this influence the Vista upgrade market? Probably not much, unless users run into questions with the M400, for instance, where you have to download, unzip, and copy to a flash drive (most likely I imagine) a Raid driver for their harddrive in order to get the Vista install underway. That’s when they’ll starting Googling. Actually, I hope they don’t and instead post on forums asking for help to build a new set of more timely information and links. By the time Vista appears on store shelves I hope the installation sequence for Vista is a lot more straightforward and well explained on the Net.

Loren
Lorenhttp://www.lorenheiny.com
Loren Heiny (1961 - 2010) was a software developer and author of several computer language textbooks. He graduated from Arizona State University in computer science. His first love was robotics.

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17 years ago

Hi Loren

I also have Vista RTM running on my M400, and have had much the same experience as you. I read somewhere that Toshiba has committed to releasing the full driver set by Retail release day (Jan 30th) but not before. Looks like we’ve got a couple of months of limited functionality.

Vista still runs really nice though. Very fast, and no stability problems. I’m quite surprised how well the finger-print logon works too.

Loren
17 years ago

I’m sure the driver issue will work itself as you’ve indicated. It’s going to be important in order for people to have the best experience when installing Vista on an M400.

Oh, and I too am quite pleased with the way Vista is running. Performance is terrific on the M400. I have noticed some screen flickers and the wireless drops every now and then, but all of this makes sense because I’m using beta drivers. Again, once the final drivers are shipped I imagine these hickups will be gone.

Now that I’ve been running Vista do I want to go back to XP? Right now, it’s easy for me to jump back and forth. XP is still fresh in my mind. I know where everything is. However, I really like the new experience.

17 years ago

Hi Loren, I

Loren
17 years ago

Matias: I didn’t have the problem you describe. I downloaded the drivers from the Toshiba site onto a USB stick and then navigated to the folder like you said. I’m trying to remember now—maybe there were two subfolders for this driver??? Maybe try each of the folders. My memory might be failing me here though.

Loren

matias
17 years ago

Thank you Loren, is weird the problem because i read all over the blogsphere nothing but success installation. I will keep trying.
Thanks for your fast response.