Upgrade Old Laptop

I have a 4-5 yr/old HP laptop that currently runs XP Pro. It is stable, but I was thinking about upgrading. I have 2GB ram and a 250GB hard drive installed.
Product Specifications HP Pavilion zv6130us Notebook PC - HP Customer Care (United States - English)

I am looking at how well it would perform, NOT if it could run the OS. Windows Upgrade Advisor says it could support 7. And I don't want to upgrade because it is cool or nice, but if an upgrade can increase performance.

My questions:

Should I upgrade the OS? Seven or Vista or leave it alone.

There is no way Windows 7 (and definitely not Vista) is going to run better than XP on that laptop. If you really get the bug, make sure you have a full image backup of your current XP before starting. That way getting back to XP is easy.

Hello merkat106.



That PC should do good with Windows 7, I personally, have no problem with Vista but if I were you I'd go straight to Windows 7; XP is a dying dinosaur, move on.

Ztruker said:

There is no way Windows 7 (and definitely not Vista) is going to run better than XP on that laptop. If you really get the bug, make sure you have a full image backup of your current XP before starting. That way getting back to XP is easy.

^^^ BS!

If you have upgraded RAM from original 512 megs to 2 gig as you told, and HD from 80 to 250, you are going to see a clear improvement if upgraded to Seven.

Pavilion laptops run Seven really well. You might have to download network, display and chipset drivers from respective manufacturers sites.

Go for it, come back if you have more questions.

Kari

I suggest Windows Seven too.

I would go for Win 7. I see you have a high spec PC running 7 already so your learning corve will be neglible. Just one point, if you run a printer or scanner off the laptop at the moment (under XP) and it is not one that you have connected to your other PC just check for drivers for Win 7 64bit! Otherwise go for it!