Free Upgrade to Windows 7 for Asus Customers

I just got my replacement W90 today, inside was one new thing that the old unit did not have. A little shiny blue phamplet between the lcd and the keyboard of the new unit.

"Windows 7 Upgrade Program"

Here is what it says:

Looks like I cant get it :'( but hey thats good news for Win 7 lovers that wanted to hold out till Win 7 was shipping with units to save cost. Now you can buy now (well end of this month) and get for free later.

From W90 Review

Took a quick pick on low light, may take the time for a better picture later.

 

Awesome, this is one more thing (on top of the 4860) I have been waiting for!!

 

I still waitting for my Xoticpc order to ship ... I wonder if the shippment is on time..since I heard nothing from them and nothing on the forum ...

 

I thought that was a nice touch to see the Win7 offer for buyers at the end of the month, too!

I would think the shipments are all in process of getting to resellers now, because my replacement w90 was sent out this past Friday.

 

Ordered back in Apirl 20 .....so I do hope they have enough units for me ...

 

I was planning to hold off buying anyway ... because I figure that after Win 7 is out, manufacturers would start designing machines to take full advantage of its features. I was planning to wait until end of spring 2010.

I have a z70va -- one of the last sold and it is working fine now. I just want it to last another year.

Do people think that makes sense?

 

guess i will buy a new comp on june 26

 

I wonder if the B1 qualifies for the windows 7 upgrade that would garuntee 100% 7 compatible asus stuff for the G50V/VT's. (Our hot keys dont work anymore lol).

 

Is this only for Asus notebooks, or for all manufactures as well?

 

thats sweet! hopefully the g51 will release by then

 

by when lol.... think about it.

The G51 will be out by then not only that there will be G51 models with 7 on them before that expires unless microsoft holds back the release very very far.

 

oo wait.. the g51 is supposed to release july right?

That means g51's will be part of the windows 7 free upgrade woot!

 

Very exciting news! I was NOT wanting to wait for the upgrade program to order my G51--now it sounds like the upgrade will go into effect right around release.

 

All manufacturers. Microsoft announced this a while ago.

I should have waited on buying my g50vt until the end of June!

 

That's excellent (Sorry, got a little behind on some tech news)

 

thank god for NBR, without it i would've bought a laptop earlier.

 

So I guess the last rumored release date of late October for Windows 7 is accurate. Cool. I'm in.

 

The last rumor was July 1, so this actually moves it up a few days.

Yup. Microsoft confirmed the Windows 7 release date yesterday as October 22nd.

 

That's public release date with RTM looking to happen at the end of July. So I figure August for technet/msdn/volume licensing.

 

Yeah I just put Windows 7 on my 2nd hard drive and it installed almost all the hardware... can't find a driver it likes for the card reader and the hot keys don't work. I'm sure by the time Windows 7 comes out in October there will be drivers for everything by then. I'm glad NIVIDIA released a beta driver.

 

I hope these are full installers like the Vista upgrades were. Clean installs are where its at.

 

sorry to bring back an old thread but i'm just wondering if it's a dvd image file that we download off the internet? if so, i can always burn that image to a disc for a hard copy correct?

 

Anyone know if refurbs are eligible. The upgrade site doesn't mention how they are addressed.

Mike