Downloaded Windows 7 Ultimate last night and now I'm about happy. Had a hard time with the BlueTooth module in my m1710 laptop, but finally got past that. Had to turn the BT on and off a couple times, then on my BT mouse I needed to hit the little BT button, then I was home free!
This is an upgrade from Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Ultimate. My experience with Vista was poor as I'd get a blue screen at least once every couple weeks. Sometimes more often, sometimes less. But now that I've been running Windows 7 I'm much happier. It starts up very quickly vs Vista and it has a whole new crop of desktop images that are very nice. My first experiences with IE 8 have been quite painful, as I had to install Mozilla Firefox to get some of the updates needed.
Under Vista my Performance Score was 4.7. Under Windows 7 it is up to 5.4. The bottleneck was RAM in Vista, now it is Processor and RAM. To effect a better world for my Windows 7 install I upgraded my hard drive HD from 100gb 7200rpm to 320gb 7200rpm. Seems to be working great. Here are my results:
So there you go, my jumbled comments on an upgrade from Vista to Windows 7, enjoy!
