Window 7 X61t Upgrade

[syeo]

Hey everyone,

With the new windows 7 upgrade option just around the corner, I started thinking. I want windows 7! But they will ship via dvd discs. How do I upgrade my x61t that has no cd/dvd drive, with a dvd disc?

Is there a simple solution to this problem?

[ZaZ]

You certainly could pick up an external drive. They're pretty cheap and can be handy to have around.

I've no idea how Lenovo plans to do the upgrade. I would guess it's cheapest to just buy an upgrade now while they're on the cheap, but if you do a clean install you lose the use of the recovery partition.

[K0LO]

You could copy your DVD onto a USB flash drive and install from there (article is about USB hard drives but will work for flash drives also). There are rumors that Microsoft is considering selling Windows 7 on flash drives.

[VipFreak]

Will windows 7 be less of a resource hog? If not I'm thinking of figuring out how to go back to XP.

[eatbuckshot]

well, it must be considered that when windows xp was designed, computer hardware wasn't very powerful with the minimum requirements being 64mb of ram and a 233mhz pentium processor. So windows xp is pretty conservative in its memory management, though nowadays with laptops being equipped with 3gb or more ram(besides netbooks), windows xp usually lets idle much of the memory, and unless you run 15 chrome windows with 10 tabs each like me, not very many applications use up all that memory(unless you run all those applications at the same time). I suppose the point is though, windows 7 uses memory somewhat more efficiently, though it does have to use a bit more memory at a minimum. I run without paging file and with 1gb, I see the low memory message very often. Though the speed and the user interface enhancements of windows 7 is worth the upgrade, ESPECIALLY for a tablet pc.

[K0LO]

I had XP on my X41 Tablet for 3.5 years, and Windows 7 for about 6 months. With 1 GB of RAM I would call the performance quite respectable for either OS. Windows 7 did run better and somewhat faster than XP. The only disappointment with the X41T is that the graphics adapter is unable to take advantage of all of the new features in Win7 (Aero, taskbar previews, etc), but I would still go with Win7 over XP.

[VipFreak]

Ok... I put myself into a little pickle. I had Vista, but to make a long story short lost it. Now I'm on XP tablet 05 and well... I hate it. I've also heard that Vista is better at least for supporting a tablet. Anyway, I can get the physical Vista restore disks for $40 or should I tough it out or wait for win 7? Thanks.