Windows 7 on the EEE 900, 24 hours later
It has been about 24 hours since I completed the install of Windows 7 on my EEE 900, and here’s a quick review of my experiance with it so far.
I must say that Windows 7 feels very fast on the machine, although the fat installation doesn’t leave much space over to other things like an office package. It is safe to say that the netbooks available when Windows 7 is being released has enough storage space for it plus office package and other goodies, which will give the current set of OS choices some real compitition (although I personally think Easy Peasy, formally known as Ubuntu EEE, rocks).
A quick visit to the Windows update application and almost all of the missing drivers got installed (the webcam drivers are still missing IIRC). After installing/upgrading the drivers I wanted I was looking into getting a new Windows Experience Index score, but the system keeps hanging during the test. Hopefully there will be some updates for the Windows 7 beta that fixes the issue.
If it wasn’t for the space problem I wouldn’t mind using Windows 7 as the OS on the machine, it boots up amazingly fast and feels very responsive – but just being able to fit an OS without any applications is not enough for me – I need my apps as well, so after some more playing around with Windows 7 on the machine I’ll revert it back to XP Home (or something).
