What machine do you have Win7 running on

[Stargate199]

So, I've been absent from this forum for a while because I don't really own a Thinkpad anymore and I have not had the time to actually hop on. Anyway, Windows 7 RTM has been out for MSDN and Technet subscribers for almost two months now and retail is available in one week, so I want to know who is running Windows 7 and on what machine. Please state the version and whether if it is 32 or 64 bit.

For me, I have 64 bit Windows 7 Professional running on Boot Camp on my Mac mini. It was a real pain to get to work because I had to modify the boot parameters of the DVD so it would boot correctly in the EFI environment. Then I poped in the OS X disk to install the drivers after windows installed, and it said my machine did not support 64 bit Windows. Well after messing around with compatibility mode, I got the drivers to installed and all is fine.

I also have an Asus Eee PC that now has windows 7 professional 32 bit. I put the ISO on a thumb drive and installed from that. No problems except for finding the correct power management driver.

So far both machines run 7 well without any problems.

[xene]

Thinkpad T42, T60, and X60s - all 32-bit. Running like champs!

[yak]

T60 from my signature. 32 bit. No problems.

[dlai]

T40, T41 (2), T60, HP DV8000, MSI Wind U100, and eee PC 701 all running Windows 7 Pro, 32 bit. HP M7077c running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. Minor issue with the eee PC and it's hotkey video driver, but no issues with any Thinkpad. All my Thinkpads run much better than before and are much more stable.

[qviri]

X31.

Installed without a hitch, found a wireless driver on Windows Update when plugged in via ethernet. Had to add hotkey and power management stuff from Lenovo's site. Installed Mobility 7500 drivers as per instructions on forum and the machine is now fully operable, suspend, wifi, and all. No Aero of course, no big loss.

Oh, I accidentally discovered that it also detected and installed a IR driver. Very Microsoft, but very awesome.

[emeraldgirl08]

R51e (with full aero and aero peek working; disabled b/c I don't need the eye-candy), R52 with Windows 7 basic (don't need aero for this one), and on an R40 project.

I've installed on an T30 also.

They all work very well but the R40 had problems with a video driver and the wifi lights are not flashing on the LED Bezel. I had to use modded drivers to get this one to work decent. I think there are better drivers out there for this from what I've read so I'll try another one soon. The rest of the pack all had virtually no problem with installation.

Once installed the important thing is to have a wired ethernet cable connected. Let Windows detect the necessary drivers and go from there. And install the system interface driver, hotkey driver, and power management drivers!

[Tony Chan]

T400/Intel5300/1440X900 LED/4Gb ram/bluetooth/Camera.

Running Win7 64bit RC for 3 months and just installed RTM for couple days.

Runs really well. Only problem I have are :
1. I used to be able to dim my LED to very low level in Vista. Now I the lowest level still fairly bright. Also, there is no indicator for the level ( the green bars on screen when pressing Fn+PgUp/PgDn ).
2. My Intel 5300abgn connection speed used to be easily over 1gb, now the max is 54g.

Other than the above, the system runs really well.

[asiafish]

Win 7 running great on my T400 switchable graphics. At first I thought "what's all the fuss", but after a few weeks I'll never go back to Vista or XP.

I still like OS X better on my MacBook Air, but I no longer feel like I'm slumming when I use Windows.

[mybellyisempty]

My W500, My HP 8710W, my HP DV8230US, my Samsung NC10, my wife's DV9548US, and after this weekend, my old (now my dad's) T60.


Also, Tony: the 5300 doesn't do 1gb. Highest it's rated (to my recollection) at is 450, but I've yet to see a router in the wild that will do more than 300.

[Tony Chan]

Sorry I was meant to say over 100 mbps wireless. Instead the highest I got is 54mbps. It easily go beyond 54mbps ( 7x - 11x mbps ) when running the exact same hardware in Vista 64 ( I kept my original Vista hard drive when I upgraded to a ssd with WIN 7 RC ) from the same spot i.e. my den.

I've just re-tested with my old hard drive and sure enough, I get over 100mbps again. I'm very tempted to reinstall Win7 using the Vista wireless driver and see what happens.

[johnp126]

I am running Windows 7 RTM 64 bit. All works very well except every once in a while i get a condition where some processes seem to take over the cpu. Its a quad core so it really should not bog down. I think it has to do with SMC.EXE from Symantec's Endpoint Protection. Even running unmanaged and the latest V11 RU5 it still takes over once in a while taking as much as 50% at some times. A reboot fixes it. I spoke with someone else running SAV 11 RU5 and they are having the same issues. Anyone else know of this?

[paul*robertson]

X31.

Installed without a hitch, found a wireless driver on Windows Update when plugged in via ethernet. Had to add hotkey and power management stuff from Lenovo's site. Installed Mobility 7500 drivers as per instructions on forum and the machine is now fully operable, suspend, wifi, and all. No Aero of course, no big loss.

Oh, I accidentally discovered that it also detected and installed a IR driver. Very Microsoft, but very awesome.

What specs on the X31. How does it "feel". Any advice for anyone thinking of upgrading. (Have you tried Vista on the X31)

[6SPDSER2002]

T40, T41 (2), T60, HP DV8000, MSI Wind U100, and eee PC 701 all running Windows 7 Pro, 32 bit. HP M7077c running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. Minor issue with the eee PC and it's hotkey video driver, but no issues with any Thinkpad. All my Thinkpads run much better than before and are much more stable.

i am running WIN7 on my T41...i cant seem to get the hotkeys and on screen displays to work...any ideas

[Marin85]

i am running WIN7 on my T41...i cant seem to get the hotkeys and on screen displays to work...any ideas

Did you try Windows 7 BETA driver and utilities from Lenovo, in particular the Hotkey/OSD driver? (Note that you need to have the Power Management Driver and Lenovo System Inteface Driver installed in order to ensure proper work of the Hotkey/OSD driver.)

Hope this helps,

Marin

[dlai]

Marin beat me to it but all the drivers you need are on that link he provided. You need to load the system interface driver first before loading the hotkey driver. I just upgraded a T30 yesterday and using those same drivers got the hotkey working fine...

[qviri]

What specs on the X31. How does it "feel". Any advice for anyone thinking of upgrading. (Have you tried Vista on the X31)

P-M 1.4 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB 5400 rpm drive, and the Intel 802.11b card.

Felt pretty great out of the box -- perhaps not as immediately snappy as XP, but not nearly as 2004 either. Slowed down a bit since, but still more than adequate on a five-year-old laptop. Browsing is fine (Gmail, Google Maps, Streetview are all good in Chrome), Flash video makes CPU fan spin up but isn't otherwise a problem. I haven't really taxed it apart from running browsers (Chrome and Opera), putty, foxit reader, etc. I actually run on the power save scheme most of the time to gain battery life.

I feel the machine could benefit from maxing out the RAM to 2 GB, but it's pretty good right now, and only really shows problems when I go north of 10-15 browser tabs. If you can find a fast, non-stuttering PATA SSD, it would likely help -- but I haven't bothered.

I had the first version of Vista on a 4200 rpm hard drive. (I didn't install that, came that way.) It was pretty painful. I haven't seen properly tweaked Vista in action here.

I did an orthodox clean install from DVD.

Subjectively, Windows 7 feels much newer than XP. XP is still a nice, no-nonsense workhorse, but 7 makes me enjoy 2009, and pretty effectively killed my Ubuntu cravings, apart from the sadly missing rsync. In a way, it's a more Applesque OS, but I've gotten to appreciate things mostly working, even if I have to adjust to a few changes rather than change things back to how I like them.

What are you using your X31 for right now?

[lifrancis]

I have tested Win 7 on my T41 and T60, installed on a 2nd hard drive in the ultrabay slim.

On the T41, there is noticeable slow down when running Google Earth, even when all the latest drivers were installed.

On the T60, Google Earth runs OK. But Virtual Box is running a bit slower comparing to XP.

Conclusion: I definitely will not upgrade my T41 to Win 7. As for the T60, the jury is still out.

[5p33d0]

I have an R51 with dothan 1.7 1.5gb ram

works smoother than XP but no drivers for Gfx...so no aero.
Otherwise very satisfied.

[paul*robertson]

What are you using your X31 for right now?

I dont have one. I'm looking for either an x31 or x60, but i'd like to have the same o/s on my two main laptops. I dont actually mind Vista, now i'm used to it.

Mainly internet and office.

[emeraldgirl08]

Paul.

I'd go with W7 over Vista if I were you. Vista is known for being a resource hog and it's demands are quite persistent across the board. W7 is very much like Vista but more user-friendly and lighter on the demands. It doesn't require an obscene amount of memory to start with (I've had it running on my R40 w/768mb) and at least shows you the progress of your defrag (vista just tells you "Uh...I think we may need a day or a minute to do this!").

For your x31- Vista Basic or W7 Basic??? I'd go w/the W7 for it's better usage of available resources.

[PiZzA EnGiNeEr]

Z61m with these upgrades:
T7200 cpu
1.8" Samsung SSD
4GB RAM (3 usable because of i945)

I installed the 64 bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate off MSDN. Everything works flawlessly. Windows 7 + the SSD is like having a brand new computer. I'm very impressed.

[qviri]

> What are you using your X31 for right now?
I dont have one. I'm looking for either an x31 or x60, but i'd like to have the same o/s on my two main laptops. I dont actually mind Vista, now i'm used to it.

Mainly internet and office.

I haven't ran office software on this, so I can't comment directly... but I think light Office 07 should be fine.

Honestly, though, if you don't have anything particularly severe drawing you towards the X31, or pushing away from the X60, I'd go for the latter. You'll probably thank yourself in two years.

[MiamiC70]

z61t - so far so good.

[fierylungs]

Running 64bit Ultimate on an R61, 2.ghz core2, 4gb ram. Everything works except the speakers (which might be fixed with a driver reinstall, the headphone jack works just fine which is all I really need.) Also, the HD APS realtime status is unresponsive and greyed out but I don't go dancing with my laptop often

This is the first time I've gone with the bleeding edge version of windows since 3.11 for workgroups and I'm thoroughly blown away and overjoyed. Boots lightning fast, nice and snappy (with all the eye candy running) and just... wow.

No words, should've sent a poet.

[atwood]

I installed 7 ultimate on my R61 and its been running find since. Installed without issue too. I do have a few small problems and questions though:

1 the biometric (fingerprint) scanner won't work and I can't seen to find any windows 7 drivers for it. Any idea on when they will be available ?

2. I was wondering ...... does R&R delete the partition when it installs windows (mine came with XPP) or does it just format it. If so, would enabling bitlocker be a problem if I want to use R&R ?

thanks in advance for any answers.

[jdhurst]

I missed this thread. Windows 7 Professional 64-bit will go on a new M58p Quad Processor (8Gb of ram and 1 TB of disk) sometime before year-end. Then it will also go on my T61p, replacing Vista. ... JDH

[Harryc]

I have Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit running on the T60 in my sig. As soon as I receive the upgrade disc from Lenovo, I will be running Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit on the T500 in my sig. I have to say that W7 on the T60 is running better than any OS I can recall having run on the T60 series (including Linux). No problems, and it is fast.

[Tasurinchi]

X31. See specs in my signature...

Had to add hotkey and power management stuff from Lenovo's site

Did you installed the software for the X32 or did you use the beta ones? I couldn't find anything for power management in their site:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... R-43800#pm

I feel the machine could benefit from maxing out the RAM to 2 GB, but it's pretty good right now, and only really shows problems when I go north of 10-15 browser tabs

I put 2GB on my second hand X31 from the very beginning, and Win7 is running very well, never tried so many tabs in my browser though...

I dont actually mind Vista, now i'm used to it.

I'd go with W7 over Vista if I were you

I fully agree, I personally have skipped Vista due to being a ressource hog so I cannot compare. But if you have followed the reviews of Win7 again Vista in the iNet, you will find many people to recommend the same as above...

My 0.02 cents... Cheers

[jdhurst]

<snip> I personally have skipped Vista due to being a ressource hog so I cannot compare. <snip> Cheers

Vista runs like any system I set up: Less than 2% CPU more than 95% of the time. That it is a resource hog is a widespread public myth, but not true. ... JDH

[K0LO]

And speaking of widespread public myths, I think Microsoft let themselves be unduly influenced by some of these Vista myths when they designed Windows 7.

Two of my favorite Vista features were Previous Versions and Superfetch. Superfetch would fill up the contents of unused RAM with code from your most-used applications so that they start almost instantly. In Windows 7, Superfetch has been neutered. Now it only fills up half of RAM, letting the other half go to waste. How sad. But non-savvy users look at the amount of RAM in use and think "how wonderful that Win 7 isn't as big a RAM hog as Vista". Whatever "RAM hog" is supposed to mean; unused RAM is totally going to waste.

Vista used to save daily Previous Versions of Files, a lifesaver when you accidentally delete a file or make a change that you want to reverse a few days later. But this feature can use up to 15% of the disk space by default, so complaints started about how Vista would "eat up" additional space on the hard disk over time. In Windows 7, this feature is severely crippled. It now only creates Previous Versions once every 7 days. To say that this is useless is an understatement. (This one is easily fixed by creating a scheduled task to force creation of a daily restore point).

Don't get me wrong - I have been using Windows 7 since January and really like it, but not everything is improved compared to Vista. It's very sad to see that some of the "improvements" made were politically motivated.