Any Intel i7 hardware geeks?

10-30-2009, 05:05 PM

I just got a Dell Studio 15 laptop with the i7, 4GB, 500 GB....

MAN, this flies despite Vista 64 bit... Windows 7 upgrade is on the way!!!

The only downside is that I can not dual-boot XP... no Dell drivers for XP... I've tried slipstreaming the new SATA drivers in XP SP3 but still blue-screen on install...

I would agree with getting a getting a smaller system disk and another drive for files...

And something to backup too... This laptop is a replacement for my older Dell that was stolen 5 weeks ago... I lost about 10 days worth of files because of the lack of a backup after upgrading to Windows 7.

I did a test this morning... I processed a 2 GB MPG file that I recorded with SageTV to get rid of the commercials... My loaner single core laptop did it in 331 seconds... This one did it in 46 seconds!!!!

10-30-2009, 05:05 PM	#9
Cyclone Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Any Intel i7 hardware geeks? I just got a Dell Studio 15 laptop with the i7, 4GB, 500 GB.... MAN, this flies despite Vista 64 bit... Windows 7 upgrade is on the way!!! The only downside is that I can not dual-boot XP... no Dell drivers for XP... I've tried slipstreaming the new SATA drivers in XP SP3 but still blue-screen on install... I would agree with getting a getting a smaller system disk and another drive for files... And something to backup too... This laptop is a replacement for my older Dell that was stolen 5 weeks ago... I lost about 10 days worth of files because of the lack of a backup after upgrading to Windows 7. I did a test this morning... I processed a 2 GB MPG file that I recorded with SageTV to get rid of the commercials... My loaner single core laptop did it in 331 seconds... This one did it in 46 seconds!!!!