Windows 7 on Aspire one?

Just curious as my roomie has the 8.9" Aspire One (80gb HDD, Atom, 1gig ram, blah blah blah)

How does windows 7 run on these as opposed to Windows xp? I was thinking of putting the W7 RC on it for fun. If it's noticeably slower then Xp runs on these netbooks though using 1gb ram, I'll pass.

 

Well I have win 7 in my aspire one, but it was the beta version, I would say its at 85% speed of xp. You could install both OS to see by yourself.

In other words I would install win7 maybe its slower but there are new features to play with .

 

Requirements:

1 GHz processor (32- or 64-bit)
1 GB of RAM (32-bit); 2 GB of RAM (64-bit)
16 GB of available disk space (32-bit); 20 GB of avaiable disk space (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

 

I know it WILL run on it, I've seen blurry vids on youtube. I was just curious if it'd be worse then the pre-installed XP. I mean my roomie is interested in me puttin W7 RC on it, but I don't want him pissed at me if it runs like garbage as compared to how it was running XP

 

I've never tried it but it should run just as good as XP. You will have to disable the fancy bling but Win7 is designed to use minimal requirements and is also going to replace XP on future netbooks so go ahead, you won't be disappointed.

If you are hesitant, Dual boot with XP and Win7 to compare them. If you really don't like Win7 then just delete the partition and continue using good ol' XP.

 

Not sure about the Aspire but I know that it runs great on the Samsung NC10 netbook with pretty much the same specs. I have it on mine, but mine's 2 GB. However on the sammynetbook forums many have installed it with the base 1 GB and have indicated it's just as fast as XP.

I'll say this, after using Windows 7 on my netbook I'd never go back to XP on it.

 

I know on Vista you can create a partition as part of Windows, and make a segment for W7, as I've done that on my vista laptop before.

Is there a built-in way to make a partition in XP as well?

 

Just shrink your current partition and use the leftovers to create a new partition for Win7. You can do this either in XP or during the installation of Win7. Just make sure you have enough free space for the shrink.

 

I've gotten the 7000 build to run fine on my HP Mini, so I don't see why it wouldn't run on the Aspire One. Infact, it will probably run very well on it.

 

Did your HP have Xp on it factory installed initially? How did 7000 run in comparison to XP factory install? Also did you do a partition, clean install, or upgrade?

 

The bootup time is longer on Windows 7 than XP. XP boot up time = 15-20seconds W7 boot up time 20-25seconds.

Otherwise.. the speed is about the same.

 

7000 ran pretty well, though boot up time was a bit slower than with XP. I still have the factory installed version of XP installed on one partition, and I had build 7000 on a separate partition.

Now I have the RC version (build 7100) and so far it seems a lot faster. I have not yet rebooted, so I can't comment on if it is improved or not. My next task for the rest of the week is install my applications onto the Mini. Time will tell how this fairs.

Oh, and I did a clean install on both build 7000 and 7100. No driver issues to report with either build.