Re: [H] Win7 on a 2007 Thinkpadgood idea or nuts?
Personally I do not find W7 any more intensive than XP short of using Aero or the overhead from some of the unneeded convenience services like search indexer. Sure runs fine on my Atom N330 and would have run fine on my P4 2.4Ghz Dell Latitude C840 if bastards at ATI Nvidia didn't stop supporting older video cards with even basic drivers. On 5/22/2010 10:55 AM, Winterlight wrote: Last year I picked up a circa 2007 Thinkpad X41 Tablet on Ebay for under 300 bucks. I wanted something easy to carry around with long battery life but with a useable screen size and I really like my X41. I have Windows 7 tablet available to me and I am thinking of installing it on my X41 tablet... apparently others have done this and it works. It meets low end Win7 requirements, I have run windows 7 advisor and all is OK. The relevent specs are Intel Pentium M Low Voltage 758 1.5GHz 2GB of RAM 60 GB proprietary hard drive... can't be upgraded this part sucks. Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 video chipset 128 MB right now it is running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 I don't use this much for anything then internet, word, excel, acrobat, play back a video, or audio. I understand Win 7 has a better tablet experience. Of course, I would turn off all the eye candy. Anybody have any experience with Win 7 on low end machines. Am I going to regret this if I go to the trouble of installing Win 7? w
[H] Win7 on a 2007 Thinkpadgood idea or nuts?
Last year I picked up a circa 2007 Thinkpad X41 Tablet on Ebay for under 300 bucks. I wanted something easy to carry around with long battery life but with a useable screen size and I really like my X41. I have Windows 7 tablet available to me and I am thinking of installing it on my X41 tablet... apparently others have done this and it works. It meets low end Win7 requirements, I have run windows 7 advisor and all is OK. The relevent specs are Intel Pentium M Low Voltage 758 1.5GHz 2GB of RAM 60 GB proprietary hard drive... can't be upgraded this part sucks. Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 video chipset 128 MB right now it is running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 I don't use this much for anything then internet, word, excel, acrobat, play back a video, or audio. I understand Win 7 has a better tablet experience. Of course, I would turn off all the eye candy. Anybody have any experience with Win 7 on low end machines. Am I going to regret this if I go to the trouble of installing Win 7? w
Re: [H] Win7 on a 2007 Thinkpadgood idea or nuts?
I got Win7 installed on a older laptop ...it doesn't even support the ATI Mobile Radeon in there...but it runs in VGA mode at 1024 x 768. I also have regular Win7 installed on my Dell Latitude XT, a tablet. It works just fine...and it's not the tablet version. I say go for it. Win7 runs on anything, even if you don't have all the drivers. :) If you do, there is virtually no risk. On 5/22/2010 1:55 PM, Winterlight wrote: Last year I picked up a circa 2007 Thinkpad X41 Tablet on Ebay for under 300 bucks. I wanted something easy to carry around with long battery life but with a useable screen size and I really like my X41. I have Windows 7 tablet available to me and I am thinking of installing it on my X41 tablet... apparently others have done this and it works. It meets low end Win7 requirements, I have run windows 7 advisor and all is OK. The relevent specs are Intel Pentium M Low Voltage 758 1.5GHz 2GB of RAM 60 GB proprietary hard drive... can't be upgraded this part sucks. Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 video chipset 128 MB right now it is running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 I don't use this much for anything then internet, word, excel, acrobat, play back a video, or audio. I understand Win 7 has a better tablet experience. Of course, I would turn off all the eye candy. Anybody have any experience with Win 7 on low end machines. Am I going to regret this if I go to the trouble of installing Win 7? w No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2889 - Release Date: 05/22/10 02:26:00
