windows 7 on netbooks?

[garbanzo]

my wife and i are considering getting one of the new acer netbooks with the Z520 Atom and 2gb ram. anybody have experience putting windows 7 on one of these? recommended or no?

 

[Sassa]

I'm pretty sure it will work fine...
Edit:
I installed RC version on my several friends notebooks with similar specs, it works fine.

 

[TGSoldier]

It will work fine..

 

[copernicus]

It's gonna blow up your netbook.

 

[patio]

You can win big time if you shop around...some offer then pre-installed with an OS already and a Free/discounted upgrade to Win7...

 

[nealh]

I have win 7 home premium on an Asus 1005HA with N280 and 2gb of ram..it boots and shutdowns down slower than winxp. I run a dual boot with winxp.

I think Win 7 is very smooth on the netbook. DO NOT install win 7 starter I hear this is a crappy version and crippled version of Win 7.

 

[Snufffed]

my wife and i are considering getting one of the new acer netbooks with the Z520 Atom and 2gb ram. anybody have experience putting windows 7 on one of these? recommended or no?

Every indication is "Works really well." I found several on the internet with Win7 RC and other versions installed, reports were Super
good. I'm also looking for one.... just have not found the right price yet,
1.5 GB Ram is suppose to be max. 500 soldered in, you can add 1 GB easy.
many options on HDDs. (plz verify but I'm sure the specs say 1.5 is max.)

 

[garbanzo]

thanks all!

snuffy, the new acer have 2g standard, and 250gb drives. check best buy's website. they're just $350, quite reasonable.

been looking for one with vista home premium, but they all have basic. does buying vista basic upgrade to windows 7 starter, or to home premium? i don't want starter

 

[spazzie]

my wife and i are considering getting one of the new acer netbooks with the Z520 Atom and 2gb ram. anybody have experience putting windows 7 on one of these? recommended or no?

Try before you buy. Insist the salesperson has a Acer netbook running Windows 7 Home Premium. Don't buy then try later.

 

[bobtran]

No question about it

I have Win7 running on:
Dell Latitude C600 single P-III @ 1Ghz, 512 ram pc133, mcpci broadcom 802.11 b/g wireless card, and a 60gb HDD. Anti virus running all the time and numerous other productivity software. I have seen NO negitive impact on my laptop other than I can't run AERO due to the graphics card...which I'm sure your netbook will not suffer from a lack of video card processing power(Needed 128mb per specs) although if I could get a MGGD driver for mine I could also run AERO even with only 32mb ati graphics but pigs will fly first so I just settle for Win7 basic interface which isn't to bad and I have read a few posts about turning on transparency in the basic theme which I did under XP and it worked fine....Posts state also works for Win7.

Slow/steady startup but once the system is fully up and functional it rips along at least as fast as XP did and I suspect a little faster.

Go for it....you can always go back if it doesn't trip your trigger as my mother used to say.

 

[garbanzo]

you say i can always go back - but with no optical drive, won't that be tough? i know you can install windows 7 from a thumb drive, but putting xp back via usb would be a right pain.

though i guess i could just image the drive before i try windows 7...

hrmm

 

[rck01]

Garbanzo,

I run Windows 7 daily on an HP Mini 2140 (Atom 270, 2GB, 160GB 5400RPM HDD). It boots a bit slow, and running multiple tabs in Chrome can be a challenge (I've turned off flash and run the browser in single-process mode). But the overall experience is quite reasonable - slower than XP, but with better usability and more functionality (running Ultimate on mine). There's a trade-off in terms of performance, but I travel all over the world and it sure beats lugging my Dell Precision M6400 LINO (Laptop in Name Only) around airports, etc.

RCK

 

[bearhawk]

I just finished installing 7 on an MSI U123 Wind.

It has the Atom N280 running at 1.66Ghz. I did swap the memory out to the max 2gb.

I never even booted into xp, I installed 7 first thing. But I did leave the restore partition in place

Aero graphics are a little weak, just a 2.0, but she runs great...

 

[garbanzo]

any hope for Aero on these machines, or will i be stuck with basic?

 

[andych]

any hope for Aero on these machines, or will i be stuck with basic?

I have just installed Win 7 Ultimate onto a brand new Acer D250 (upgraded to 2gb Ram) and it runs sweet as a nut.....
No problems with Aero...it only rates 2 but runs fine.
The ones you are looking at are a spec up from mine so they should be even better.
I say go for it......now all I have to do is stop going from ym 22 inch Samsung Monitor to the netbook 10 inch......causes weird reactions from the eyes...

 

[copernicus]

Windows 7 on an asus 1000he netbook. Installed on first day, wouldn't think of going back to xp.

 

[xan K]

I installed it in an Acer Aspire One with 1GB of ram and an Atom cpu and it worked like a charm with aero and everything. awesome, to say the least.