“Thumbing” Windows 7 onto Netbooks – my experience

re: “Thumbing” Windows 7 onto Netbooks – my experience

James ONeill — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:19:49 GMT

Neil sorry to take so long to answer

In some circumstances it can be better. It depends how brave you are when it comes to taking a machine to bits and how much you value your warranty. Readyboost isn't the same as expanding main memory and there will be some things where only more RAM will help. Of those there are some where going from 1 to 1.5 just isn't enough difference. But my experience is for what is being used for the 4GB readyboost and 1GB main memory works very nicely, so I've shelved my plan to upgrade. Your mileage may vary :-)

re: “Thumbing” Windows 7 onto Netbooks – my experience

Neil — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:25:26 GMT

James, would you say that for WIN 7 a 2Gb SD card configured for ReadyBoost is a better proposition than dismantling the machine, voiding the warranty and replacing the 512Mb memory module with a 1Mb module?

re: “Thumbing” Windows 7 onto Netbooks – my experience

jg007 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:49:42 GMT

good to hear this , I am trying to persuade my poartner to let me stick W7 on her netbook when it is realeased and this gives me more ammo :)

I don't really want to keep supporting an XP system so will be much happier if I can stick all my pc's on W7

just wish MS would offer an nice cheap family pack !