On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:34:28 -0700, "P J" <pj@pjama.invalid> wrote:

>Most laptops come with a lot of hardware specific drivers and software
>installed by the manufacturer that work with the installed OS. In my
>case it's Vista on an HP tablet entertainment notebook. What I wonder
>about is how will I be able to upgrade it to Windows 7 if HP decides not
>to provide updated drivers and software for Win 7?

I am running the Windows 7 release candidate (build 7100) on my 8
month old HP DV5 1000us notebook (for reasons I won't go into) and
have had no problems. One driver, for the HP Officejet 4200 series
printer, was not available in the build but the OS automatically
searched online for the driver when I tried to add the printer, and
found and installed it in about 2 minutes.