Windows 7 on a year old R500- My Experience so far

I have an R500 with 2GB of Ram, 2.3 GHZ Centrino 2 processor, that game preloaded with Windows Vista, yesterday I upgraded to Windows 7.
So far I have had some mixed issues. The only bad things that have happened was Windows did freeze while I was messing with the personalization the desktop, color of windows and such. This was the first time I had logged into Windows 7.
Positive things, its defintely faster. Faster startup, shutdown. I especially noticed the faster hibernate and awake from hibernate times, which with Vista were annoying long. The new features I've used are nice too. Defintely taking a page from Mac, but not expliciting copying them either. Giving us some of the features that make things easier, but keeping the PC feel to it.
So far I am happy, as long as I dont have anymore need to force a restart.

Hey DionysusPL,
That's a really good idea. I mean, of course it requires opening up the casing which probably voids the warranty, and without actually looking inside I can only guess that the form factor won't make it easy to move things around in there. But
presumably the hard drive in a Surface Pro breaks occasionally and needs to be replaced, so it can't be too hard to swap it out if the tech support people can do it. The worst case scenario is that it requires a special tool (like a star-shaped bit) to disassemble.
But yeah, if one buys a 512GB HDD of the same size, installs Win7 while it's in a different system, then puts it in the SP2, then that seems like it SHOULD work. Except that it begs the question of why I couldn't just format the drive that's already
inside the SP2 with an USB drive installer and install a new OS that way? Or take out the HDD in there, format it, install Win7, and put it back in. The BIOS is saved on the motherboard, not the hard drive, so replacing the HDD won't change the
non-legacy-VGA-supporting BIOS of the Surface Pro 2. One still needs to worry about compatibility of the OS and BIOS of the new hard drive with the motherboard and other components of the SP.
You said "I know for a fact it would work", which implies that you have done it or have seen the result of it being done. Is that really true. Or do you really just think in theory that it should work (but you are really confident)? There
is a big difference. The BIOS seems unaffected by swapping the hard drives in the way you describe, and the BIOS is the problem, so the only way to know "for a fact" that it works is to do it and see that it works. Have you done that? Is
there some link you can share showing this? I'd love to know that this was a real thing, I'd even consider buying a used Surface Pro 2 to try it out on. But there'd have to be a way to fix/change the BIOS in addition to swapping the hard drives...or
so it seems to me.

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