I've always been a tablet guy: I enjoy the option to use a stylus. Meetings are just less intrusive with a slylus than a taping keyboard. Photo editing is just better with a stylus. Casual internet browsing is just friendlier with a tablet. Snipping something is just sooooo much better with ink.

My old M200 shipped a long time ago with XP Tablet Edition, then I managed to get Vista on it (which is no mean feat, as it has no optical drive), and today, when Vista again dropped me in the "installing update 3 of 3" endless loop, I thought I'd rather spend the time to install Windows 7 than recover from that old chestnut again..

And bingo! It was not even that painful!

Steps taken:

1. Previous experience with my M200 showed that booting from a DVD drive is not reliable, and caused many blue screens, so the simplest alternative for me was to pull out the disk, and build it in another machine using a IDE to notebook IDE adaptor.
2. I did a full Update Windows on the other machine with my laptop hard disk
3. Moving the disk back to the M200 did not immediately work, but the workaround was to run msconfig.exe on the other machine, and check the box to say “detect HAL” and VGA-only, and then the laptop disk booted OK in the M200.
4. After a couple of reboots and wire-connected Windows Updates, I was back up and running, with sound, wifi, and tablet working.

Extra steps taken since the first build: I’ve updated the generic graphics driver, as I really wanted to run at native resolution. I used these drivers with “have disk” process: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=7427 (This driver does not give full aero glass, but things work well enough, also with multi screen usage,)

And all seems good! This is encouraging, especially since things seems very nippy and happy!