Fueled by Mountain Dew… A night with Windows 7 Public Beta

9 01 2009

All righty, so I’m sitting here on my iBook waiting for my Windows 7 Beta DVD to finish burning.  I started the download this morning from TPB, and am now patiently waiting.  While I wait, let me introduce you to my machine that I will be installing 7 on.  It is a HP Pavilion ze5170 Laptop.  2.0GHZ Pentium 4, 512 RAM, 40GB Hard Drive.  I got the computer free from my grandparents after the keyboard broke.  I took it into my possession, ordered a new keyboard off ebay, and now have a great laptop.  There is no battery, but thats not a huge deal for me right now.  

Well, it is 7:37 PM and I am currently installing it to my lappy, getting into installation was a lot quicker than with XP, so hopefully thats some foreshadowing? Idk, but install is going kinda slow, but then again, i am running it on an old machine.  Well, more to come!

Well, its installed, took like 30 minutes, which is SO much faster than XP, i only wish it had video drivers, i’m running with 32mb of Vram, so i would expect things to be slow, but wow, the windows move so slow, but overall i’m pretty satisfied.  I just need to see about getting some network drivers, even just ethernet would be fine at the moment.  Well, i’ll post more as i get further into the OS!


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