This little laptop is a champion! & Great reliable laptops. They are fairly compact(for their time), and rugged. I can’t recall ever having a problem with them hardware wise, and the core 2 duo will easily run Windows 7 as long as you get some ram in it. I personally won’t run Win 7 with less than 2 gb of ram, but you can do it on 1Gb. These are old now, but they are still rock solid. Definitely one I will keep around for many more years.