Windows 7 Upgrade on sony with 8400m chip

Ive been considering the upgrade to Windows 7 and now that it is possible for me to get the Ultimate upgrade version for £57 i am even more tempted.

What im wondering is, is it possible for me to get my windows 7 upgrade copy back to install on another computer it this one were to fail as this notebook has the notorious nvidia 8400m gt gpu which is known ot fail and after 18months of use its idle temperature is 60 degrees celcius.

if it is possible to get the copy back i will go ahead with the upgrade i might consider a new hard drive at the same time although im unsure on upgrading this as im still in warranty. if i was to upgrade the HDD i would install vista to the new HDD using the backup discs i made and then keep the old HDD with its data still on for if anything were to go wrong

 

If you get a retail Windows 7 upgrade, you should be able to use it later in another computer.

 

Yes you can. Upgrade license of WIn7 is only available retail.. so you can switch systems no problem.

Make sure you install Windows 7 64-bit. for the best experience (and FINALLY use 100% of your computation power, support for 2TB or more of HDD space if you have one, and 4GB or more of RAM, oh and you can run 64-bit applications/games/codecs which helps on battery (heck even having the OS in 64-bit helps.. nothing major, but anything helps.. well helps)

PLEASE, DO NOT configure/tweak Win7 like you do in XP.. it's completely different.
- More fonts does not slow the boot time
- More services does not slow down the system (don't touch the services)
- Aero uses the GPU to render rather than the CPU.. having a wallpaper doesn't harm CPU performance.
- Windows 7 is optimized for multi-core CPU's already.
- Prefetch actually works, don't touch it.
same for all other tweaks in XP... Win7 is a base don a Vista, which was redone form scratch (hence why Vista had bugs that was not there before, and had to be fixed/improved/optimized in SP1, SP2, and Win7).
- Windows Media Player 12 actually kicks-! (also available in 64-bit to use 64-bit codecs).

For codecs, I highly recommend Shark007 codec pack. Install the 32-bit first than the 64-bit component after. Why this codec pack?
- Free.
- No conflicts, well packaged
- Optimized for Vista/Win 32/64-bit.
- Can play about anything
- Thumbnail preview
- Easy Control Panel that configure all common feature in codecs in one place... so that you don't need to go codec by codec to set teh speaker options (let's say).
- Provide the ability to "unlock" (change all file association and shortcuts) from WMP 12 32-bit to the 64-bit in a mouse click.
- Doesn't override Microsoft Win7 excellent built-in codecs (Divx, Xvid, DVD MPEG-2, and more)