So I went with the free upgrade to win 10 with this thinkpad t410s

[Naer]

Maybe I shouldn't have, can't even plays games or do productivity. Found out later that t410s wasn't supported by win 10. I even clean installed so now I can't even downgrade back to win 7. Why did they give me that option to upgrade?! So I just bought a win 8 product key. heard it was was supported by 8. They will send me a key within 24 hours

 

[taisingera]

You didn't make an image of Win7?

 

[Naer]

You didn't make an image of Win7?

should have

 

[Naer]

tired of win 7's gui anyway, lets see how win 8 works out for me

 

[Naer]

win 10 for my desktop is working fantastic. coudn't care for the voice corneleious thing on my desktop tho. replace it with google voice anyway of the week

 

[TeknoBug]

aahhh there's a recovery option after upgrading to 10 to revert back to 7 exactly how it was left, should've done that.

 

[Naer]

aahhh there's a recovery option after upgrading to 10 to revert back to 7 exactly how it was left, should've done that.

can't already clean installed in 10. anyway I have 8 now, fully updated. lets hope for no more disappointment

 

[heymrdj]

aahhh there's a recovery option after upgrading to 10 to revert back to 7 exactly how it was left, should've done that.

My sony laptop failed when it tried that 😛. Until Sony came out with official drivers for mine Windows 10 was horrible on my Vaio Flip 13A.

 

[Brainonska511]

W10 is not "supported" on the T420 either, but it works perfectly fine on mine, hotkeys and all.

As for playing games, if you got a machine with integrated graphics, good luck. You're trying to do stuff with a 6+ year old machine.

I'm kind of confused though - what's your complaint with Windows 10? Does it not boot? Are certain things not working?

 

[Naer]

W10 is not "supported" on the T420 either, but it works perfectly fine on mine, hotkeys and all.

As for playing games, if you got a machine with integrated graphics, good luck. You're trying to do stuff with a 6+ year old machine.

I'm kind of confused though - what's your complaint with Windows 10? Does it not boot? Are certain things not working?

yeah, graphics don't function due to non existent driver for windows 10. acquired a win 8 key, now I'm flying. T410s comes with a NVidia as well as the integrated graphics card, two cards

 

[corkyg]

Win10 works perfectly on my old T510. It has Nvidia graphics. As I recall, the 510 and 410 come from the same vintage. I did not do a clean install of 10, but rather upgraded 7.

 

[Brainonska511]

yeah, graphics don't function due to non existent driver for windows 10. acquired a win 8 key, now I'm flying. T410s comes with a NVidia as well as the integrated graphics card, two cards

You could try using an official Windows 8 driver in Windows 10.

I also did not do a clean install when going from 7 to 10 on my T420i - I just did the upgrade. This machine is too old (>5 years) and hence not worth my time to try to do a clean install on it.