Windows Vista on HP notebooks (a how-to guide)

[ivanox1972]

When we can expect official HP vista drivers?

[illmatic8]

When we can expect official HP vista drivers?

You don't need them, almost all the drivers are either built in, or available through Windows Update in Vista.

The only ones not available yet are the Webcam drivers, everything else is. HP has the Quick Launch Buttons available.

[nanjowood]

The GMA950 gets a Gaming score of 3.0. (Not kidding).

I just bought a new HP dv6253 laptop yesterday and I stumbled onto this Windows Performance Index when I went to play a simple game. I have the AMD Turion 64x2 TL-50 with the GeoForce6150 and 2GB RAM but my performance index is only 2.4! If you dig deeper, you see it rates 5 criteria, and the others aren't bad. But based on gaming graphics the overall rating is only 2.4.

I bought a retail model, so I knew I wasn't getting top graphics. But salesmen at every store predicted that the AMD+nVidia would be a little better than the Intel DualCore 2060 w/GMA950 (which k3l0 says is 3.0).

I just stopped at Best Buy and took a peek at their notebooks on display. The inexpensive Compaq Turion 64 MK-36 with the same graphics card had a rating of 3.0, but the HP Turion 64x2 TL-50 had a rating of 2.4.

My questions:
Why is the Turion 64x2 TL-50 so low and is there a driver or something to improve it?

Where will this low performance be noticeable, other than certain types of games?