Windows 7 beta on the tx2500z

@ Przemek you could partition your hard drive & do a dual boot

Touch & pen should install drivers by default, but understand that this is beta software, furthermore unreleased beta software. It is likely you will have problems installing programs/oem software/ hardware buttons etc which will affect your functionality.

I get that everyone is excited about the new OS, but realize that you are using an unfinished product.

 

Yup, on my Centrino 1.6 with 1.25 Gb of RAM Vista struggles even when not running any apps... But Windows 7 works at least as fast as XP, even working normally (browsing the web, using Office, etc.).

They say the requirements for 7 will be the same as Vista, but in practice they seem to be lower!

 

Ok, I have separate partition for that, Vista is on C:

Could anybody guide me what to do next ?

Boot from cd or start install from vista loaded?

P.

 

You could do either.

 

like drTigerLilly said you can do either. I installed it from inside Vista to the 13GB HP restore partition because I didn't want to repartition my HDD specifically for that. When Win7 beta comes out officially though I will remove Vista and install Win7 as main OS. Already in beta it's much better then Vista for a non gaming laptop.

 

Today I'll use it for the first time in class, but from using it on battery at home I must say that I don't see as much background junk processing and it seems to run much cooler.

-Great Wizard

 

Ok, I installed it and runs really smoothly.

Only thing I needed to install is fingerpring reader and digital persona soft. Other things works ok. So far not tried to install ATI drivers or button driver, because i didnt need that. I will try soon for sure.

Performance is good, it gets about 10-15% of cpu and 15-25 of RAM (vista took 30%cpu and 45% of ram), but hinestly, I didnt try clean vista install, so I cant tell if its system of bloatware.

Office runs faster than on vista, webbrowsing without any differences.

Will post more when I notice

P.

 

Would windows 7 work as good in a tx2000 ?

I had to add a vbs script to vista in order to make the systray icons appear after installing SP1...

 

See no reasons why it shouldn't. Install it in dual boot and see if you like it.

 

Windows 7 works great on my tx2000.