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?
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