I have been using my windows 7 laptop only for the last 6 days.
Win 7 pros –
Win7 Cons –
I set up Windows 7 on a newer high end Dell laptop(latitude D630) today. The plan is to use it for my everyday laptop. I want to see how long I can use the laptop without have to go back to my old one. Day one has been all about installing everything I need. This included firefox, flash, acrobat, filezilla, tweetdeck, and office. The only issue I had was with tweetdeck. I am not sure why, but the adobe air was having trouble installing. It looked like the computer was trying to install adobe air, even though it was already installed.
Day 1 has been almost all positive. I would say it is a huge improvement over vista. over the next few days, I want to make sure to try all of the new features.
Today I am trying out the windows 7 beta on a few of differnt laptops. I will post more about the actual OS later.
Laptop #1 Dell Precision M65
Intel T2400 1.83GHz, 2GB ram, 80GB HD, 512MB Nvidia Quadro FX 350M
Installation was very fast, but did not find correct graphics card driver. Even after installing correct ones, I still could not get the correct resolution.
Laptop #2 Dell Inspiron Mini 9
Intel Atom 1.6GHz, 1GB ram, 16GB SSD, Intel GM950
Installation was extremely slow, probably because of the solid state drive.
Laptop #3 Asus EEEpc 1000HA
Intel Atom 1.6GHz, 1GB Ram, 160GB HD, Intel GM950
Installed almost as fast as the Dell workstation laptop.
| Windows 7 info | Dell M65 | Dell Mini9 | ASUS 1000HA |
| Processor |
2.1 |
2.2 |
2.2 |
| Memory |
4.2 |
4.4 |
4.5 |
| Graphics |
3.6 |
2.3 |
2.3 |
| Gaming Graphics |
3.4 |
3 |
3 |
| Hard drive |
2 |
2 |
2.9 |
| Install time (approx) | 30 mins | 2 hours | 40 mins |