Advice Please: Upgrade to Windows 7 even if Laptop vendor does not supply drivers?

"Best advice: Do what the manufacturer suggests.

Practical advice: Vista drivers usually work fine. We can't really tell you how safe it will be since we don't have your machine to test it on."

"Another way- create a partition (minimum 20GB) to install W7. Then install, check for drivers and other usage issues. If it works, great- you can if you want then delete the Vista/XP partition and extend the W7 partition. If not, then the other way around- delete the experimental W7 and extend the Vista/XP. Of course as eleven81 (can I call you 1181 for short?) said, image, back up...

But anyway as far as I've heard, there've been very few issues using Vista drivers in W7. But have you googled for your machine in regard to it? Likely someone somewhere has tried it and reported on it."

"given that most windows vista drivers work for windows 7 and that HP customer care answers are not always in the customers best interest (they'd rather sell you a new machine) and that you may test windows 7 before you buy (you can still get 90 days trial versions), i'd say: give it a shot.

also, most part manufacturers now offer their own device drivers for windows 7, you don't necessarily have to rely upon HP's support web site for driver support."

I have an HP 6720s, which was released about 2 years ago. HP only supplies Windows Vista 32-bit drivers for it. I installed Windows 7 64-bit and most drivers were there after installing, perhaps even all of them. If there were any missing after the initial installation, Windows Update grabbed the rest of them.