The long overdue testing has begun
Way back in August I blogged about installing Windows 7 on my Dell X1. Well the long overdue task is now complete. I have to say that the inital results are pretty impresive. The installation took under 30 minutes for Windows 7 Ultimate. After the full installation was completed, I shutdwon the laptop and powered it up. From the time I hit the button until I recieved a login prompt took exactlly 1 min. 23 seconds. Not bad for 1.1GHz Celeron proccesor. Not to mention that is just about 30 -45 seconds quicker than XP Professional, which I had running on the system. The only hiccup I have had thus far ( but it is a pretty big hiccup) is finding drivers for video and audio. Neither of which has been updated from the vendors or Dell since 2006. Microsoft’s genric Video driver is providing 1024×768 video @ 32bit color, so nothing really lost there. The laptop is pretty responsive and I have run several apps at once with no lag thus far… I am going to push it a bit further next and see how many apps and things I can have going before it breaks. Stayed tuned for the final part of the WIndows 7 Ultimate test and then we move on to Starter Edition.
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