Comments on: Mobile Tech Minutes — Windows 7 Performance on a Netbook

By: rob

rob — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:52:20 +0000

Hi, how did you get the evdo modem to work? I’ve tried installing the vista driver and smartwi utility but it doesn’t show up at all and the utility crashes. thanks.

By: Student

Student — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:53:51 +0000

the X64 versions of Win7 isn’t dramatically faster than Vista X64. App load times are identical and gaming performance with current win7 drivers are pretty much the same (they use to be slower with beta drivers).

btw, if you are a college student, there’s something called the “MSDNAA” where you might be able to get a FREE COPY OF WIN7 NOW.

I lost my chance to download when I was taking my Comp Sci classes. (U Washington only gives that out to students who are enrolled in Infomatics or Comp Sci classes). Some schools, such as Washington State U gives it free to ALL its students. Do check with your department or school.

If you missed that opportunity, look up the $30 dollar student deal at digitalriver.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:38:50 +0000

I’ve got windows 7 on my sony vaio TZ laptop. It runs great! I can score about 6 hours of battery life with the EVDO modem on and everything set to minimum.

I just wish it had a touch screen. Other then that it’s a great laptop and windows 7 simply works beautifully.

I just found out how to edit the registers to enable virtualization and xp mode works a treat as well!

By: John in Norway

John in Norway — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:55:19 +0000

For some reason, Windows 7 on my Sc3 (1.33 Atom, 2GB RAM, really slow HDD) takes over 30 seconds to go to sleep! As for shutting down, well, sometimes it does, eventually, sometimes it doesn’t. No such problems on my Toshiba m200, though.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:33:08 +0000

Win 7 on my NB205 is great. I have given up on the “flash cards” to work properly and just use the windows mobility center, win-x, to do what i want. Battery life is excellent. I spent all day yesterday using it and my boss was using his 12″ HP laptop with the super extended battery and his died while mine had 50% left. I can easily get a whole day out of this thing and I rarely carry the power adapter with me. I have used mine tonight to watch videos online with it started using it at about 11:00p it is now 2:30a and I am at 56% battery remaining. That is playing streaming video full screen over wifi. Just normal web browsing seems to go longer than when playing video. I am very satisfied with the battery performance. Just yesterday I ran from 830a to 230p and still had power left when I started to charge it. I think it was somewhere around 40% left. That was more normal work, outlook, word, powerpoint, excel, web.

No problems from me, works way better than the Asus EEE 1005 hab with the 3 cell crap.

If only there were a way to get internal 3g on the NB205.

For the record I am running 2GB of ram and I have an sd card running 4GB of readyboost.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:21:39 +0000

Well, yours is much faster than mine! I put Win 7 RTM on my Lenovo S10 (with 2GB ram) and it takes in excess of 2:45 to boot up! My Windows Experience Index is 2.2 with the lowest rating being Calculations per second.

Once the system is booted, it works well. And, like you, I rarely fully power down the system. My biggest problem with the S10 is “fat finger syndrome”… I did use your tip of SharpKeys to swap the right shift and up arrow keys – which makes the keyboard far more usable.

By: Luscious

Luscious — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:21:03 +0000

Nice job getting Win 7 on there. I must ask though, are you noticing any worse battery life compared to XP with the Toshiba power management utility not working? I’m thinking if Toshiba didn’t throw out an update, it may not be needed for the new OS.

I still think Pinetrail with a hi-def screen will be the netbook to pair best with Windows 7 though.

By: Wils

Wils — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:51:35 +0000

hi. would really like some sort of comparison between windows 7 and xp. speed, usability, system resource usage, etc. because comparisons with vista is useless as we know vista has always sucked =) also, performance comparison should be on a 1GB ram setup. hope you can help. thanks =)

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:44:08 +0000

I switched my Acer Aspire One over to Windows 7 a few weeks ago (from Fedora 10) and I am loving it! Glad to see that other netbooks are faring well also.