windows 7 - worth upgrading?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Despite being installed by Sony (and the machine exceeding the min hardware spec) Vista has always been marginal on my little Vaio - I installed Ubuntu as a dual boot which has worked a treat and is much faster but I do need Windows for some stuff. Would an upgrade to 7 offer any performance benefits?

[AtW]

No, stay (or go back to) on Windows XP.

I've installed this tulip v7 on weekend on new disk partition, decided to remove it and then spend next 5 hours doing so

[stingman123]

I've had no problems with it....It is much more responsive, no driver issues etc...most of the people that seem to be having problems so far are the one's that are not upgrading their specific SATA and RAID drivers,and it you do get any problems you can always run XP in a VM

[DiscoStu]

I've stuck Win 7 on my slightly ageing Acer laptop and it's far quicker than Vista ever was (I did a clean install tho, not an upgrade).

[VectraMan]

I've installed it on my Dell Vista laptop, and yes it's very good. Definitely feels faster and multitasks a lot better than previous Windows. However I did do a wipe and clean install. I'm not sure I'd want to trust the upgrade process, and inevitably, fresh installs of Windows always feel faster.

But I bought it in the pre-release special offer, and I am using my laptop pretty much full time. I'm not sure I'd rush out to pay full price if it was for occasional use; I think there's a better argument for putting the money towards a newer faster laptop with Windows 7 already installed.

[tenpin]

Despite being installed by Sony (and the machine exceeding the min hardware spec) Vista has always been marginal on my little Vaio - I installed Ubuntu as a dual boot which has worked a treat and is much faster but I do need Windows for some stuff. Would an upgrade to 7 offer any performance benefits?

Download VirtualBox (or some other VM thingy) and install Win7 in that - I did the same with Ubuntu and Vista on a Dell laptop because Vista was rrrrrrubish, but I too needed to use some windows stuff every now and then.

[TheFaQQer]

I've had marginally fewer crashes on Win 7 that I had on XP 64-bit.

Generally quite happy with it, it has to be said.

[VectraMan]

Download VirtualBox (or some other VM thingy) and install Win7 in that - I did the same with Ubuntu and Vista on a Dell laptop because Vista was rrrrrrubish, but I too needed to use some windows stuff every now and then.

You won't get all the Aero stuff with Virtual Box (though I did read somewhere that VMWare has cracked this problem). I have both Windows 7 64-bit and 32-bit in Virtual Box VMs and they don't perform anywhere like as well as they do natively.

[SuperZ]

Had a few issues with it, found it not quite as plug and play friendly as it should be and had to do a reinstall of it on one machine after using a new device because with the new device enabled WIn 7 blue screened on startup. When I did a reinstall with the device enabled during the install everything was fine.

[tenpin]

You won't get all the Aero stuff with Virtual Box (though I did read somewhere that VMWare has cracked this problem). I have both Windows 7 64-bit and 32-bit in Virtual Box VMs and they don't perform anywhere like as well as they do natively.

Can't argue with that, but if all you have to do is edit a spreadsheet or word doc, then the GUI "shiny" isn't required.