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From: Cameo on 1 Jan 2010 15:50 "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque(a)wi.rr.comm> wrote in message news:hhlba3$8r4$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > I've been putting off attempting to upgrade my DV6308 to Win7 for > that exact same reason. I know I can force a lot of the Vista driver > to run, but that's not the most stable thing in the world to do. I'm > already using an XP graphics driver on my Vista system so that I have > the ability to have a full screen command prompt. > > Have you made the switch yet? Yes, I did and Win7 itself mostly works fine -- thanks to Microsoft's thorough support in this case. The problem is the HP support because they decided not to support this originally Vista model with Win7 drivers. I am using the 64-bit Win7 and some of the 64-bit Vista drivers do work more or less with it but still, models this recent should not be abandoned by HP on a new OS that came out in the last few months. To play safe with the Win7 install, I used a partitioning software to reduce the 32-bit Vista partition on the 250 GB HD to about 80 GB, in essence making the small recovery partition take up the rest of the HD. Then I *custom installed* the *upgrade version* of 64-bit Win7 in the recovery partition. At the end of the process I got a dual boot situation, allowing me to boot into either of the old 32-bit Vista partition or the new 64-bit Win7. The process worked pretty smoothly and when something does not work in the new one, I can still go back to the old Vista. This is a pretty safe upgrade and that's what I would recommend for you to try as well. Once everything is working in Win7, I can delete the Vista partition and allocate it's space to Win7. Have you run the MS upgrade advisor software? That would tell you what would work for you and what would not in Win7.
From: ~misfit~ on 2 Jan 2010 00:35 Somewhere on teh intarwebs Barry Watzman wrote: > Cameo wrote: >> Is there a clearly superior laptop manufacturer in its support >> function both within and beyond the warranty period? In "beyond" I >> mean such things as periodic firmware and driver upgrades that are >> specific to the laptop model. > > Lenovo, Dell, Toshiba. MAYBE Gateway. Avoid Sony. My own > experiences with HP/Compaq have not been good, but others have > different stories (there is some level of inconsistency among all of > the vendors). I can third the Lenovo report. Using ThinkVantage Update I'm seeing Windows 7 compatible drivers being offered for 5 year old laptops. I reckon that's pretty good. My three year old T60 gets regular driver updates and patches. -- Shaun. "Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'.
From: Cameo on 2 Jan 2010 05:48 "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy(a)yahoo-nospam.com.au> wrote in message news:hhmlvc$2fh$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > I can third the Lenovo report. Using ThinkVantage Update I'm seeing > Windows 7 compatible drivers being offered for 5 year old laptops. I > reckon that's pretty good. My three year old T60 gets regular driver > updates and patches. Who would have thought that this long after the Chinese bought Lenovo from IBM.
From: Barry Watzman on 2 Jan 2010 14:07 Do not underestimate the Chinese. They, not the US, will be the leading power in the world by mid-Century. Cameo wrote: > "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy(a)yahoo-nospam.com.au> wrote in message > news:hhmlvc$2fh$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> I can third the Lenovo report. Using ThinkVantage Update I'm seeing >> Windows 7 compatible drivers being offered for 5 year old laptops. I >> reckon that's pretty good. My three year old T60 gets regular driver >> updates and patches. > > Who would have thought that this long after the Chinese bought Lenovo > from IBM.
From: Cameo on 2 Jan 2010 14:37
"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM(a)neo.rr.com> wrote in message news:hho5i9$qad$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > Do not underestimate the Chinese. They, not the US, will be the > leading power in the world by mid-Century. That may be, but we are far from that time yet. |