win 7 onto my laptop

[Maxheadroom]

thinking of putting windows 7 64bit onto my laptop, it needs formatting anyway but would it run win7 ok?

Acer TravelMate 4230
Mobile DualCore Intel Core 2 Duo T5500, 1666 MHz (10 x 167)
System Memory 1014 MB (DDR2-533 DDR2 SDRAM)
Video Adapter Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family (224 MB)
Audio Adapter Realtek ALC883 @ Intel 82801GBM ICH7-M - High Definition Audio Controller [B-0]

thanks

 

[richc46]

It looks ok to me but why not try the MS upgrade advisor, I will be back with the URL.


http://windows.microsoft.com/upgradeadvisor

 

[richc46]

You have 2gb of RAM everything else looks OK. But take the advice that I supplied, try the advisor. You can get an official MS opinion as the the compatiblity. In fact you can find out if any programs are incompatible, also

 

[Maxheadroom]

thanks for that Richard never knew that existed

 

[richc46]

Im glad that I was able to help. Hope that you can use Win 7 and that you enjoy it. Happy New Year My Friend.

 

[Phone Man]

You may want to go the the ACER site and see if they have Win 7 or Vista 64bit drivers for you model. I have a HP laptop and it does not have Win 7 support and it took a while to find Vista 64bit drivers that I had to hack to get to work. Win 7 is good at having the drivers but you never know.

 

[Maxheadroom]

too late Phone Man i installed 7 on the lappy yesterday after doing the upgrade advisor. Amazingly after 20 25 of installing then did the windows update another 10 mins maybe the laptop was up and running, i havent need to find any drivers or do anything yet everything seems to be working fine so was pretty impressed especially considering the same process to put XP on took me nearly 3 days!
thanks for the info though Phone Man it is apreciated

 

[richc46]

Windows 7 is much better than earlier OS, such as Vista. All the leg work is done, drivers, etc. Just install, use easy transfer and install programs and enjoy.