Okay so I couldn’t just let sleeping dogs lie last night. I am now online and working live. So far things look good.
Last night I installed Windows 7 on my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. Here are my first impressions:
It’s freakin’ sleek. Microsoft did a fantastic job on the user interface and the resolution is actually [...]
So far it looks lovely. However it won’t read any if my function buttons or wifi devicesout of the box. So I can’t go wireless just yet. More work is needed. So once I have drivers I will update again.
But it sure is pretty.
So I already broke it with my crazy dell drivers. But a good feature is the restart repair. It’s back up sans drivers. So I will leave it to sit overnight and continue tomorrow at the office.
Till then.
So obviously I can’t blog from my laptop so I’m using the wordpress iPhone app. I have to say I rather like it.
Also here are my laptop specs since it’s important to know what Win7 will need to jibe with.
2gb ram
100gb hd
Dual layer DVD writer
SD slot (very crucial to this test)
Internal wifi
The rest [...]
Okay the backup is complete and I’m installing Windows 7 in my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. Before the install it was a mold mannered dual boot that had both Win XP and Ubuntu (I forget which version).
I decided to keep the dual boot partition since I know it works with my school website. However the [...]
Hello again,
I will be beta testing Windows 7 starting tonight. Tune in for all the fun and bug reports, if there are any, that is. Currently I am in the backup phase, and saving about 40 gb of my junk to an external drive.
This will be a test of basically everything I do in XP, [...]
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