I finally decided to install Windows 7 on my HP tablet notebook. I don’t use it a ton and don’t rely on it every day, so it was the perfect candidate. That, and I was getting very annoying with Vista on it. Here is a quick summary of my first day with it.

- Install took forever and appears to have upgraded over top of Vista. Not what I was after, but not a horrible thing I guess. Seems to have worked out.
- It found everything it needed for all the hardware to work right away. Even the tablet features are working perfectly and much better than the Vista ways. Wireless device wasn’t detected at first because I had it turned off. Turning it on caused Windows to discover it and install the drivers quickly. I was on my WLAN in no time.
- The Library folders are neat, but useless for me. I store all large amounts of sharable data on a NAS, which I then mount as a drive. I can’t include anything from this mount unless I index it. I can’t index it unless I set “Use offline”, which copies everything locally. Pointless. Something I hope get’s a workaround or straight-up fixed.
- There were a bunch of updates right away, mostly tests it seems. Several driver updates needed to be installed, which was nice to see, even though all my hardware already worked.

All in all, I can’t wait to get some fast drives (SSDs, here I come!) for my main system and get Windows 7 on it. A whole new system is in my future.