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apmyhr   05-13-2009 at 10:00:03 PM

I was considering putting Windows 7 on my girlfriend's old Dell D610 laptop. I recently put 2 gig of RAM in it total, but it is still running a 1.6GH Pentium M with integrated intel graphics. Basically, the only purpose I want for the laptop is to stream Netflix and Media Center onto her TV. I know I wont be able to enable Aero, but I just wanted to make sure that Win 7 and Media Center will run okay on a laptop that old.

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ainarssems   05-13-2009 at 11:22:58 PM
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Yes it will.I have W7 on Dell Inspiron 1100 2.4GHz Celeron, 1GB RAM and that is quite a bit slower than Yours

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apmyhr   05-14-2009 at 04:52:16 AM
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Wow, celeron, I would take a 1.6GH Pentium M over a 2.4GH Celeron any day. That gives me some reassurance then. How is the setup working for you? Have you tried running Media Center and does it work well? Do you think the laptop performs better with XP or Windows 7?

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vectorm12   05-14-2009 at 12:19:34 PM
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I'm running mediacenter on a HP DV1000 series laptop with a Pentium M735/2GB RAM and it's working surprisingly well, however the intel IGP does get it's hands full at times and I've experienced some animation slowdowns at times, especially if mediacenter is generating thumbnails as well while you are scrolling through the menus. All in all I was astonished win7 run as well as it does on this kind of outdated hardware.

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ainarssems   05-14-2009 at 01:06:23 PM
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I never used media center on any PC. I use VLC and Media player classic. Both work fine on that Inspiron 1100 for up to DVD quality. HD unfortunately is not an option.
As for W7 vs XP I don't know, that laptop has not seen XP since Vista beta 2 came out and been running Vista since. But W7 is much snappier then Vista.

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qberry1   08-21-2009 at 07:35:11 AM
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ainarssems wrote :

Yes it will.I have W7 on Dell Inspiron 1100 2.4GHz Celeron, 1GB RAM and that is quite a bit slower than Yours



I installed Win 7 today on my Inspiron 1100. I was wondering how you got the display drivers to cooperate with win 7. They work fine for xp, but even a while back when i tried to put ubuntu on it, it doesn't give me a full screen. It's always had problems with it. Even when I am in XP and I open the command line it won't go full screen. It has the Intel display chipset. I thought maybe yours ways the same.

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qberry1   08-21-2009 at 07:44:31 AM
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ainarssems wrote :

Yes it will.I have W7 on Dell Inspiron 1100 2.4GHz Celeron, 1GB RAM and that is quite a bit slower than Yours



I installed Win 7 today on my Inspiron 1100. I was wondering how you got the display drivers to cooperate with win 7. They work fine for xp, but even a while back when i tried to put ubuntu on it, it doesn't give me a full screen. It's always had problems with it. Even when I am in XP and I open the command line it won't go full screen. It has the Intel display chipset. I thought maybe yours was the same.

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djcoolmasterx   08-26-2009 at 09:01:16 PM
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Installed and running reasonably on an old Toshiba Satellite Pro 1100, 1.8Ghz Celeron, 512Mb of RAM, 16MB ATI M6 graphics(no aero).


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area51reopened   08-27-2009 at 05:17:18 AM
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i have it on my old hp nc6000 notebook...2 gigs of ram and a 1.7 pentium m,runs smooth

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Bronze Win 7 badge Bolbi   08-27-2009 at 04:07:52 PM
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I'm running Win7 RC 32-bit on an old Compaq Presario V2000: 1.5Ghz Celeron M, 1 GB DDR 333, 80 GB IDE HDD, and Intel GMA 900. Looks like I take silver so far for slowest laptop (next to djcoolmasterx). IMO, it runs faster than my XP Home install (I dual-boot). I did add 4 GB of flash drive for ReadyBoost. No Aero effects, but it runs fine for web browsing and word processing. Believe it or not, I can even run some older DX9 games (LOTR Battle for Middle Earth, etc.).
Not sure about Media Center (I don't use it), but if you aren't doing anything more demanding than sorting media files and playing movies (maybe not hi-def), you should be fine. Basically, if it runs on that machine in XP (much less Vista), it will run fine in Win7.

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agfox06   08-27-2009 at 07:02:28 PM
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I run 7 on a Gateway M-1617 and it seems to run fine, (it should, it's a dual core AMD Turion TL-58) however I can't get it to wake up from hibernation or sleep mode half the time. I can't figure it out. Sometimes it comes back and sometimes it doesn't.

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madmax808   08-27-2009 at 07:21:28 PM
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apmyhr wrote :

I know I wont be able to enable Aero, but I just wanted to make sure that Win 7 and Media Center will run okay on a laptop that old.



This is exactly what I do with one of my old Compaq laptops [v4000]. I use it only for streaming movies and music from my more robust desktop, and it does it with no problems whatsoever.

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Pronto   09-13-2009 at 06:42:22 AM
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ainarssems wrote :

Yes it will.I have W7 on Dell Inspiron 1100 2.4GHz Celeron, 1GB RAM and that is quite a bit slower than Yours




How did you get in installed? I am trying to install it today and it's doesn't let me and asking for Cd/DVD drivers. Any ideas?

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maniac5999   09-13-2009 at 07:26:24 PM
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agfox06 wrote :

I run 7 on a Gateway M-1617 and it seems to run fine, (it should, it's a dual core AMD Turion TL-58) however I can't get it to wake up from hibernation or sleep mode half the time. I can't figure it out. Sometimes it comes back and sometimes it doesn't.




Actually, I've got the same problem with my old HP zv6000 (K8 3500+ and an ATi 200m) Hopefully they correct it in the RC. My solution for now is to disable sleep.

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