Windows 7

Might be a little slow with 512 ram, but will still run fine for an everyday normal use. Should also run good on the laptop. I'm running it on pentium m 1.7ghz, 1gig ram thinkpad (no 3d effects, since it's only a 32 meg vid card) and it's doing great, everything worked out of the box, I only had to install thinkpad specific software for keyboard button customizer, anti-shock hdd protection and stuff like that.
 
Well for the IT person Symantec Endpoint Protect works great on getting updates from the internal server running SEPM but if they are out of the network the SEP try to get update from Symantec web site and fails.

Just FYI
 
ibr3ak said:
Might be a little slow with 512 ram, but will still run fine for an everyday normal use. Should also run good on the laptop. I'm running it on pentium m 1.7ghz, 1gig ram thinkpad (no 3d effects, since it's only a 32 meg vid card) and it's doing great, everything worked out of the box, I only had to install thinkpad specific software for keyboard button customizer, anti-shock hdd protection and stuff like that.
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I can upgrade it to 1 gb pretty easily. I'll just wait to install on that PC until then.
 
Quick update on my experience. I installed Win 7 effortlessly on my desktop, but it was new and everything was fully supported. The laptop was a bit trickier, since Win 7 didn't recognize the Intel wireless card or the card reader. That was solved easily enough, though I had to play around with drivers, as some caused major problems. I also disabled a lot of the extras for the laptop and it seems to run quite smoothly--about like XP did, maybe a bit better thanks to more effective (but higher) RAM usage.
 
How did yours turn out, or did you do it yet? If not, then my recommendation is to get a good hardware diagnostic tool (I used Everest Ultimate free trial) and see exactly what hardware you have and then search for the drivers. Install Windows 7 then go to Device manager and see what is missing. Chances are it may not be missing anything. You can also run all the device driver installations in compatibility mode for whatever native OS your laptop had.
 
Amphiprion said:
How did yours turn out, or did you do it yet? If not, then my recommendation is to get a good hardware diagnostic tool (I used Everest Ultimate free trial) and see exactly what hardware you have and then search for the drivers. Install Windows 7 then go to Device manager and see what is missing. Chances are it may not be missing anything. You can also run all the device driver installations in compatibility mode for whatever native OS your laptop had.
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I haven't changed over, I am by no means computer savy when it comes to all the techy stuff and am horrified of screwing up my laptop :)
 
I definitely screwed it up the first time with the wrong driver, but it wasn't anything that couldn't be fixed with a backup restoration. That's why I didn't really sweat it.
 
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