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Old laptop, win 7??

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I bought my laptop at the worst possible time, when xp wasn't an option and 1gig of ram was standard.

here are my laptop specs, do you think it would run better with 7 than vista? and is it worth the $30 dollar upgrade (student)? my laptop isn't my main computer.

laptop specs:
AMD turion 64 x2 1.6ghz
1 gb ram
105 gb hd
currently running vista


could i just use my desktop's copy of win7 on the laptop though?

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I'm successfully typing this on a Win7 laptop with much worse specs than that! 1.5 GHz single-core CPU, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB HDD, integrated graphics that can't even handle Aero. You get the picture. Surprisingly, it is a pretty smooth experience. The OS runs great, though of course some more resource-intensive programs stutter. I recommend adding another 1 GB of RAM in your case, though. It will definitely help. Instead of doing that, I used a flash drive I had laying around for Readyboost. I found that helped my performance. But yes, I would say go for Win7.
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