[gui-talk] windows 7 upgrade

[Baracco, Andrew W]

The system requirements for Windows 7 are the same as for Vista, so a
Vista machine should be able to take an upgrade to Windows 7. But with
laptops, you can never be completely sure, because some components may
be proprietary, and may need special drivers.

Andy


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On Behalf Of Rick Alfaro
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 7:37 AM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] windows 7 upgrade

This is why I will not buy another Sony when the time comes to get a new

machine.  If it is over a year old, they just don't care.  They've got 
your money and the guarantee is over so tough luck.  Another component 
on my machine that will not have Windows 7 drivers is the mpeg board and

tv tuner card so another piece of hardware no longer supported by Sony 
that i will have to replace with something else.



On 10/28/2009 9:57 AM, denise avant wrote:
> hello,
> someone asked when i checked this out last. actually i called last
week, and was told that windows 7 would work since i had the computer
for a little more than a year. in fact, based on the model, the vgntz270
n/b the guy said i would be able to run windows professional.
> next, I ran the ms windows advisor and was told that the machine could
run windows 7 professional either premium or ultimate. so i called sony
to see what the difference was. so i'd know what to buy online. first i
was told i would have to run the windows 7 advisor provided by sony as
the ms advisor would not work. but then the tech person also checked
online to see if my machine would even support windows 7. and she said
not this model.
> this surprised me as i said because i had always thought that if you
havd the right processing speed hard disk space, and memory, you would
be good to go.
> i've had no problems with the computer itself, though i note that when
i wanted to get a docking station for the computer less than a year
after i bought it, it was unavailable.
> so wit the windows 7 issue, it seems that anything older than six
months is not well supported. i'm not saying this is true with all
manufactuers but this seems to be the case with sony.
>
>
>
> --- On Wed, 10/28/09, Rick Alfaro<rick.alfaro at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>
> From: Rick Alfaro<rick.alfaro at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] windows 7 upgrade
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List"<gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 8:09 AM
>
>
> I just went through the same thing with my Sony Vayo desktop
originally sold in 2006 with Windows XP.  Sony is not making any W7
drivers available for this machine either.  That kind of ticked me off
as the machine is perfectly capable of running Windows 7 since it is a
dual core machine with 2gb of memory and in fact I have Windows 7 on
there now, but it was a struggle.  The SigmaTel HD audio was not
recognized at all and even installing the latest drivers made no
difference so I had to install a Sound blaster Audigy card I had lying
around and that did the trick.  It also had trouble at first with my ATI
video but a driver update fixed that right up.  So far everything else
is running great and extremely responsive.  I haven't had any trouble
with any of my software so far but I still haven't installed K1000 and I
think I may have some trouble with it so we'll see.  I believe I would
have to upgrade to V11 for Windows 7 which I am not able to do
>   right now.
>
>
>
> On 10/28/2009 4:17 AM, denise avant wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have a sony vaio notebook, which I purchased in may 2008. The
computer was
>> actually released for sale in march 2008 according to the tech person
at
>> sony. It runs windows vista professional. I was told that this
particular
>> model was ineligible for windows 7 upgrade because sony had not
posted the
>> necessary drivers on its website. I thought I would post this here to
alert
>> people who are moving from vista to windows 7 to be sure your
manufactuer
>> can handle such an upgrade. I was surprised to learn that the reason
for my
>> not being able to run windows 7 was not due to processing speed,
memory or
>> hard disk space but was simply due to the fact that drivers are not
>> currently posted for this computer.
>>
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> -- --Regards,
>
>    Rick Alfaro
>    rick.alfaro at gmail.com
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   Rick Alfaro
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