Hello!

I had this problem when I installed. I’m not sure what the problem is, probably some bug where a loop doesn’t work properly or something, but the DVD drive just stops. You have to eject the tray then push it back in and it should carry on with the install. The first time I tried it came up with an error so I restarted. The second time it worked, I left it and came back to set up an account and get going.

Just for the record, I switched over to ubuntu from xp about 5 months ago, now I have windows 7 and ubuntu, dual-boot. I have to say, W7 is a lot more user friendly, it was literally click and go, no drivers to install and codecs are mostly there.

Chris

(yes it supports 64-bit)

Thank you I installed windows 7 and I am truly impressed by the multitouch features on the Latitude XT – very “iphone”-like

Today it seemed a little better…but still have disk thrashing on bootup. Time to disable superfetch again, I guess. I think I’m nearly equivalent to Vista now…but didn’t have much time to work with it today.

I did have a driver issue with a Lexmark (bleh) printer at work. So much for 100% compatibility.

It literally only takes 4 pixels more space vertically than the Vista start menu, so I’m not sure how everyone keeps making such a big deal of that. More over, right click, Properties, and set it for small icons. Problem solved.

Did you upgrade or install fresh? Since you both mention adjusting Vista to achieve better performance, I can’t help but wonder if some of those adjustments are causing issues in W7.

I also wonder if some of it is more to do with drivers than the OS itself. Then again, maybe it is just the Q1U model.

Aside from performance issues, I’m interested in hearing more about your impressions of the rest of the user interface, etc.

:-)

I think some people are comparing their regular Vista install (with anti-virus, and months of installing all sorts of other software) with a completely clean Windows 7 install and that is simply not a fair competition.

Because I don’t like how the taskbar takes up additional screen real estate, some driver issues, an issue with disk management and various rendering issues with IE8 I have decided to stick with Vista until Windows 7 comes out of beta, I also don’t really enjoy being Microsofts guinea pig :)

I had managed to optimize Vista to the point where it was genuinely pleasant to run on my Q1U (the 800). I had no issues, and reasonably good speed. In fact, with the tendency of XP to get bogged down after a period of use, Vista had been comparatively solid for me. It wasn’t a speed demon, but it was acceptable.

Reading all the media accounts (including here on jkotr), my expectations for Win7 were high, and I couldn’t wait to get it on my Q1U. I backed up all my data and did a clean install, to ensure that I would have the best experience. How disappointing! I was met with the WiFi issue out of the box, so I knew how to fix that. Disabling the adapter pinpointed the issue immediately. Granted, out of the box Win7 is faster than Vista was. But compared to how my system ran after I’d installed Vista SP1 and done several tweaks, I’m very disappointed with Win7.

Overall, the system seems more sluggish. Video performance is lacking. I actually rolled back to the “official” Samsung drivers for the i945 in hopes that performance would improve. It may be a *little* better, but not much. I’ve installed old and new WiFi drivers. The latest ones (thanks, MD) seem to be the best–but things are still a little sluggish. I’ve had Aero off and on…no real difference. I’ve had superfetch off and on (which was the “silver bullet” under Vista…disable superfetch and everything improved)…no real difference. I’ve disabled system restore, windows search, and performed several other tweaks…still things seem to be sluggish compared to my optimized Vista installation.

I’m going to give it a few days…but if Win7 continues to feel sluggish, I’ll be moving back to Vista. I never thought I’d say that, based on what I’ve read.

Perhaps there’s something I’ve missed? Shoot, I even checked to make sure DMA was turned on for the hard disk.

@MD: Thanks for the link to the latest Atheros drivers. Prior experience had taught me to look for WiFi issues first.