Windows 7 on a laptop

[chrisj1968]

how does Windows 7, in it's current state run on a laptop?

has anyone tried it on a laptop? I'm going to try and upgrade my wifes desktop and my laptop when it's feasible.my wifes will have to be a store bought and then I'll confront Toshiba for a copy for my laptop

[Jeff_MSWindows]

Hey Chris, Jeff here with the Windows Outreach Team. I?ll let others on Neowin comment on how Windows 7 Beta is running on laptops, but I just wanted to point out that if you want to try out Windows 7 in its current Beta state and have not yet downloaded the Beta, you will not be able to. The download was pulled a few hours ago. Win7 RC1 will be out eventually if you want to try it out before the final version is released for purchase.

Best,

Jeff

[Stonkwell Bogtrotter]

Works on my Toshiba Tecra A2 (oldish) Intel Pentium 1.5GHz with 1.25GHz ram perfectly fine, except the graphics card runs in "default driver" mode which means no Aero. But that's no big deal.

Runs smoothly, fast and no performance degrade.

[nonick]

Works great, im running win7 on hp pavilion laptop, 3 years old lappy

[DSLJay]

I am running it on a Sony Vaio AR250G series laptop. Seems to work well except for the built in Cam. The Vista drivers don't work even in compatibility mode. Other then that, Windows 7 Beta is bar far, faster then Vista SP1.

[ToneKnee]

Hey Chris, Jeff here with the Windows Outreach Team. I?ll let others on Neowin comment on how Windows 7 Beta is running on laptops, but I just wanted to point out that if you want to try out Windows 7 in its current Beta state and have not yet downloaded the Beta, you will not be able to. The download was pulled a few hours ago. Win7 RC1 will be out eventually if you want to try it out before the final version is released for purchase.

Best,

Jeff

Are you really:p:p I need Brandon Live to confirm this!:p:p

[Enlight2k]

I have Windows 7 running on an HP NX7400 laptop and it runs great.

[Steeley]

I've got it on my Compaq Presario F500 laptop. Works much better than Vista, and no issues with drivers.

[Jeff_MSWindows]

I really am :) Here is my Microsoft QnA profile if you need confirmation that I work with MS http://qna.live.com/ShowUser.aspx?uid=F784...128E0A79B656AEB

Glad to see many of you are running Win7 with only a few minor problems!

[Roger H. Veteran]

Running it here on a Thinkpad T60 and it runs great, been using since 6801 and haven't installed Vista in months! Loving it here :)

[chrisj1968]

Hey Chris, Jeff here with the Windows Outreach Team. I?ll let others on Neowin comment on how Windows 7 Beta is running on laptops, but I just wanted to point out that if you want to try out Windows 7 in its current Beta state and have not yet downloaded the Beta, you will not be able to. The download was pulled a few hours ago. Win7 RC1 will be out eventually if you want to try it out before the final version is released for purchase.

Best,

Jeff

well, that's kinda why I was asking. to see if anyone has been testing Windows7 on a laptop

[Simon Veteran]

Running it on a MacBook Pro... other than the crappy drivers Apple provides for Windows, it runs very well. Better than Vista I'd say.

[Quasar2112]

Running it on a laptop here. Much faster than Vista. Several bugs, though.

[Denis W. Veteran]

Runs well on my Dell XPS M1210. The 32-bit build runs fine; 64-bit not so much thanks to Dell not providing 64-bit drivers for this laptop.

[+primortal Subscriber²]

No issues on my Dell Inspiron E1705, runs better than Vista....

[Jeff_MSWindows]

From your first post Chris I thought you were saying you wanted to put Windows 7 in its current (Beta) stage on your laptop and PC but weren?t going to do it for a few months. My bad for the confusion. I try to leave opinionated discussions up to those in the forum and stick with addressing more objective issues regarding Win7. Anyways, thanks everyone for being Beta testers. I am glad to see it is running well on your laptops.

[Levant]

I currently run Windows 7 on an ASUS 1000H netbook (upgraded to 2GB of RAM). Runs smoother out of the box than Vista did on the same machine. No extra driver installations were necessary.

[Kralik]

The 32-bit build runs fine; 64-bit not so much thanks to Dell not providing 64-bit drivers for this laptop.

+1 (N) I hate this too.. have a 64 bit processor on my Dell Vostro and it took me a while to get all the drivers when I switched to Vista x64.. Dell didn't have all the drivers so I had to visit manufacturer's websites to get them and some drivers are there on Dell's site but not properly arranged e.g. I'm using XPS "Sigmatel C-major" sound drivers for my Vostro as the sound card is the same but in compatibility info on Dell website Vostro is not added to the list!!

Oh and updating BIOS on x64 is a pain too as the BIOS update does not support Windows x64.. so had to make a bootable Windows PE USB drive and update BIOS through that.. :crazy:

Anyways.. I didn't try Windows 7 yet.. waiting for RC or final version.. anyone tried it on Vostro 1000?

Running it on a laptop here. Much faster than Vista. Several bugs, though.

What kind of bugs? Could you please provide some examples?

[booboo]

Extremely fast and so much better than xp. Using Alienware m15x.

[.tony]

Newer, Vista-era laptops will run fine.

Older ones will probably have driver issues, won't work on my desktop or laptop because of XP drivers not working too well.

[Al-Mann]

I am currently using Windows 7 on my Toshiba Satellite P105-S6024 and it runs fine. It came with Windows XP Media Center Edition and even has the Windows Vista Capable sticker on it.

Mobile DualCore Intel Core Duo T2050, 1.6 GHz

2 GB (DDR2)

Mobile Intel® 945 Express Chipset Family (128 MB)

On my laptop I have not run across any major issues I can think of right now. It runs better than Vista did on it. Although not all the drivers Windows 7 had worked. A couple of the drivers I had to get from Toshiba for Vista. On one of my desktops I was having an issue with one of Sony's Media Managers converting videos, but that's about it.

[Quillz]

I just wanted to note that the only issue I had experienced running Windows 7 on my Dell XPS M1330 has now been resolved: UPEK has released compatible fingerprint scanner drivers for Windows 7! I can finally make use of that fingerprint scanner on my notebook, and now that the "Biometric Devices" is built right into Control Panel, I find that the scanner integrates much better into the OS. I have no problems logging on and approving UAC prompts.

[alanlar]

Running great on my Samsung NC10 netbook, no additional drivers needed. Had already upgraded memory to 2Gb.

[1759]

Runs fine on both my Toshiba A215-S4747 (2 GB of RAM) and Acer Aspire One (1 GB). Both OS versions are 32-bit BTW, and the biggest issues were with my netbook, but I just used Vista drivers for the wifi and trackpad.

[wguimb]

Windows 7 build 7000 and higher, runs great on my Dell Inspiron 1525 and Dell Inspiron Mini 9. In both cases, the only problem was with the Intel Chipset drivers. I have resolved those issues for the most part.