Windows 7 cold feet

[thedarkages]

It's about six days until my copy of Windows 7 ships, and I'm getting cold feet. It isn't just that money's getting tight, but I'm concerned that Windows 7 will run like molasses on my machine. I've got a 16 Gb SD card for "IntelliBoost," and 4 Gb of memory, but that may not be enough. My processor is an Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 ("Santa Rosa"), released nearly three years ago. My video is an Nvidia Quadro NVS 130 M, also a couple of generations behind. I can't find any performance reviews of Windows 7 with this kind of configuration -- all I get are laptop reviews. Should I cancel the order and take my chances with Microsoft edging XP out?

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

4 GB RAM should be plenty to run just about anything. From all accounts, 7 is actually faster than Vista, and is markedly better than XP. The video card might be iffy.

[thedarkages]

It's a laptop, so there's no way to swap out the graphics card (which has a total of 8, count 'em, 8 shaders.)

If only there were a graphics co-processor I could put into a PC-Card slot! (I can't afford such a thing right now, but it would be nice to have the option available.) Back at the dawn of time, they had 8-bit Photoshop accelerator cards with ASICs for doing DCTs and nothing but DCTs.