Hi, I have an IBM ThinkPad R50 with Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3 on it. It runs pretty well but I was wondering if I could try Windows 7 32 bit on it, with slipstreaming if possible. It has a Pentium M, 1.25 GB of RAM and a 40 GB hard drive. I tried the upgrade advisor, but that didn't even WORK, so that's not very promising. Do you know if Aero will work? I doubt it because it has an ATi Mobility Radeon 7500 with 32 MB of VRAM, and I don't really think it's worth it to put 7 on there without Aero because even though I don't really care about the eyecandy, you need Aero to use Aero Peek and Aero Flip which I kinda like.
Thanks.
Update:Thanks for the responses. I think I'll just try it to see what happens, but I will most likely go back to XP because I got the upgrade advisor to work but it said it can't run Aero and the graphics card drivers won't even be compatible, so that's kinda dumb, but oh well, I kinda like XP better than 7 anyway. I use this laptop for typing and light web surfing, so I'll probably either stick with XP or put Mint on here.
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Your Computer cannot run Windows 7. If you upgraded your RAM to 2 GB then possibly but you would also need a graphics card capable of Direct X 9.0 for the Aero feature. You might also want to upgrade your Hard drive as the installation of Windows 7 itself take 20 GB.
You can run Win 7 (barely) but there will be no Aero features and getting drivers may be difficult.
Find the drivers first, if they're available, then install.âº
Microsoft's recomended minimum requirements for Win 7 x32 and x64:
•1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
•1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
•16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
•DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver