Dreading 7000 expiration, scared of 7100.

[JayNYC]

So I have 7000 (beta) running on my Lenovo T60P and it's PERFECT. I have 7100 (rc) running on my desktop and it has issues...

I am so dreading the upcoming expiration of 7000 (beta). I wish I could give MSFT $$$ right now as a pre-buy and not lose my flawless 7000 (beta) experience.

 

[MasterEvilAce]

7100 is a better experience than 7000 was. Just run the RC1.

 

[Copyright]

I used 7022 for months and was reluctant, but upgraded to 7201. It was okay, but then I got 7229 and it's been the most stable release (to me) so far.

 

[wguimb]

Copyright is correct. Get 7229 and activate using your beta key. You'll be happy until next year.

 

[septprince]

if you can use post rc builds...
like: 7201(very stable for me, i am currently useing it) or 7229.
and if you install RC1 dont forget to run windows update, it will fix some compatibility problems of the RC1.

 

[xtop]

7201 and 7229 have been very stable for me. definitely upgrade

 

[Win7User512]

So I have 7000 (beta) running on my Lenovo T60P and it's PERFECT. I have 7100 (rc) running on my desktop and it has issues...

I am so dreading the upcoming expiration of 7000 (beta). I wish I could give MSFT $$$ right now as a pre-buy and not lose my flawless 7000 (beta) experience.

7000 was way too buggy. Get RC.

 

[mxosder16]

So I have 7000 (beta) running on my Lenovo T60P and it's PERFECT. I have 7100 (rc) running on my desktop and it has issues...

I am so dreading the upcoming expiration of 7000 (beta). I wish I could give MSFT $$$ right now as a pre-buy and not lose my flawless 7000 (beta) experience.

I just PM'd you the 7229 links. I think that will be a great build for you

 

[DJG]

So I have 7000 (beta) running on my Lenovo T60P and it's PERFECT. I have 7100 (rc) running on my desktop and it has issues...

I am so dreading the upcoming expiration of 7000 (beta). I wish I could give MSFT $$$ right now as a pre-buy and not lose my flawless 7000 (beta) experience.

JayNYC, I have 7232 x64 running on my Lenovo X61t tablet and it's AWESOME, far better than it was with 7000. Everything works great - screen rotations, tablet buttons, even the Ritepen recognition software which I prefer over the native.

Definitely check 7229 or 7232 out.

 

[OEM]

I would agree, there should be no problems with RC if you had none with beta.
Do a clean install, but before wiping out beta, run the transfer wizard and save to file on a drive other than where your going to install RC. If you don't have a seperate drive/partition, pretty sure you can save to dvd. Then after the new install run transfer wizard and upload your saved profile.

Go For It!

 

[RustyFalcon]

Yes just load 7229 x64 and be done with it already.

 

[tangcla]

7000 was near-unusable for me - any build is better than that

 

[Andysweb]

I have 7100 beta installed on eee pc 1000 ssd and that some preinstall compression to get on there it was a bit of a pain to get going. But the clock is ticking and have to do it. I have to tell you the beta is very very fast and I am sure 72xx will be very fast indeed.

 

[harpua]

JayNYC, I have 7232 x64 running on my Lenovo X61t tablet and it's AWESOME, far better than it was with 7000. Everything works great - screen rotations, tablet buttons, even the Ritepen recognition software which I prefer over the native.

Definitely check 7229 or 7232 out.

Likewise, 7232 x64 is AWESOME (fastest and best yet) on my Lenovo T61p. The difference is really noticeable. And this is on an "upgrade" install. Very happy I bothered to upgrade to 7232 from 7229. Well worth the minor tweaking that was required (took about 10 minutes after the install was finished). The upgrade install did take a couple of hours on my machine, however, probably because I have so many apps installed. Well worth the downtime though and much easier than spending the next couple of days reinstalling apps and settings.

But any of the recent builds are better than the original beta. No need to be afraid. Just do an easy upgrade install.

 

[saiarcot895]

In 7000, I pretty much encountered a bug every 5-10 minutes or so. Startup felt like it took 5 minutes, lots of programs stopped responding, and didn't properly shut down most of the time. Once I upgraded to 7068, startup was around 30-45 seconds, some programs stopped responding, and maybe 1 or 2 problems, if not no, problems during shutdown. I clean installed 7077, 7100, 7201, and I am finally at 7229. Personally, I think 7229 is almost RTM quality.

 

[Andysweb]

i only use my 7000 for web access, just tried to install tweetdeck and it did not want to take it's medicine! but i managed to get it to accept it.