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From: RayBay [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 18:26 To: Paul Khoury; Thinkpad Users Group Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Windows 7 RC on X40 Tablet We have used it on computers that had been using VISTA because the drivers are the same so far. Works ok... much better than VISTA... the trick for the other computers I use is finding the right drivers for the various components... It would be nice to know that 7 is more like XP Professional and uses the same drivers, but that is not likely to happen. Windows 7 RC expires in August, doesn't it? And Windows 7 will not be officially released until October 22nd. But there will be other releases, I suspect. I believe it expires in March of next year before you must purchase a valid license. My only pergogative for putting it on the X40 was to try it out. When my mom got an upgrade from her aging HP Vectra, I installed Vista Ultimate 32bit on her HP Compaq Biz PC, so I thought of making her hte gunea pig for Windows 7. Suffice to say, I've tried running Vista under Microsoft Virtual PC on this X60 Tablet, and it was pretty painfully slow. But Windows 7 on the same machine, and it's not the fastest, but the speed was very impressive compared to that of the former. Actually usable, and with only 1.2GB allocated (she'd only be doing 1-2 things at once anyways, no Photoshop or running 15 apps at once like I do under XP). _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
