[gui-talk] windows 7 upgrade

[Chris Hallsworth]

Actually, manufacturers are going to say this for fear that they would be
liable for any damages caused by such unsupported actions. I would go with
what MS says not the manufacturer. Hannah's Acer laptop isn't officially
supported but MS says she's good to go with 7, with a few minor issues that
are probably resolved as per the final release.

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of denise avant
Sent: 28 October 2009 1:57 PM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] windows 7 upgrade

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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