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Trying this crap out... and holy crap, this is like a gazillion times better than that POS called Vista.
Fresh install... HD usage: ~7 GB (although the VHD file shows 5.1 GB...must be compressed or something) (I've heard Vista takes up on the order of 17 GB) RAM usage: ~400MB (this is with the Aero interface and everything. They made HUGE gains over Vista here.)
I'm able to run this thing fairly smoothly on a VM with 1.7 GB of RAM, although it seems it doesn't need close to that much (we'll see how it works after I add a few servers). I've also heard from others that it is MUCH more compatible with hardware (one coworker said his hardware that he couldn't get working with Vista worked in Win7 with no problem), though another coworker said it didn't like his four year old graphics card (although aside from that, it ran fine on that outdated machine).
Best new feature is "boot from VM". Can't really take advantage of it yet, since I'm running Win7 as a guest OS, but this is freaking sweet. It might be what ultimately persuades me to ditch XP.
October will be Christmas in Autumn for Vista users.
Anybody else using Windows 7 yet?
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Kommienezuspadt wrote:
lol, windows suck.
xp, vista, 7?
come on, it's all the same piece of shit.
Unless you want to make it even more apparent that you clearly have no clue what you're talking about, you should probably back slowly out of this thread. Your claim that it's "all the same" is patently absurd for all the reasons I mentioned, and probably stems from the same imagined and contrived polarization that the intellectually lazy tend to enjoy. Please, if you're more interested in a dogmatic competition between Windows and Mac, take it to the dogmatic Windows vs. Mac thread that undoubtably exists.
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I have a doubt to migrate from 32 bit to 64. Besides the processor, which other pieces of hardware I have to change? Motherboard? Or it's just the processor?
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It can use more RAM and such.
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$úñ_DëV|L wrote:
Kommienezuspadt wrote:
lol, windows suck.
xp, vista, 7?
come on, it's all the same piece of shit.
Unless you want to make it even more apparent that you clearly have no clue what you're talking about, you should probably back slowly out of this thread. Your claim that it's "all the same" is patently absurd for all the reasons I mentioned, and probably stems from the same imagined and contrived polarization that the intellectually lazy tend to enjoy. Please, if you're more interested in a dogmatic competition between Windows and Mac, take it to the dogmatic Windows vs. Mac thread that undoubtably exists.
ummm, dogmatic ompetition!
lol
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Human Bass wrote:
It can use more RAM and such.
That's true. I thought you were expressing concern over having to move up to 64, as if 32 isn't supported. As I noted, I'm running it on a virtual machine with 1.5 gigs of RAM, and it performs perfectly well.
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I had the W7 RC (release candidate) as a second boot option on my Vista laptop. Found it way better than Vista. In anticipation of the October release, I upgraded my RAM form 1GB to 4GB. All is good except I lost the automatic dual boot option, now I have to set it manually to default to whichever OS I want.
I have a question, when the official release comes out, what do I do with the RC? (I'm assuming the official upgrades Vista not the RC)
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$úñ_DëV|L wrote:
Kommienezuspadt wrote:
lol, windows suck.
xp, vista, 7?
come on, it's all the same piece of shit.
Unless you want to make it even more apparent that you clearly have no clue what you're talking about, you should probably back slowly out of this thread. Your claim that it's "all the same" is patently absurd for all the reasons I mentioned, and probably stems from the same imagined and contrived polarization that the intellectually lazy tend to enjoy. Please, if you're more interested in a dogmatic competition between Windows and Mac, take it to the dogmatic Windows vs. Mac thread that undoubtably exists.
Nice ownage.
I'm running Win7 on my work laptop. I like it. MS ought to offer a free upgrade to all people with Vista boxes.
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I've been running it since the first beta and if it weren't for the fact that my graphics card doesn't get driver support from ATI, it would be my primary OS.
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I heard installing this thing can be a bitch for those (like myself) who border on computer illiterate. And I'm in the market for a new laptop (probably HP). They're offering a free upgrade to Windows 7 from Vista when it's officially commercially released. To that end, should I wait to buy the computer so Windows 7 is already installed, or can I buy it now but go through the hastles of having to install Windows 7 when it becomes available?
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Is there any significant difference between Professional and Ultimate? I tend not to use many additional features of windows, and its not like either of them come with office, so what up?
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simple schoolboy wrote:
Is there any significant difference between Professional and Ultimate? I tend not to use many additional features of windows, and its not like either of them come with office, so what up?
Based on what I've read, Ultimate comes with BitLocker, which nobody uses, and support for more languages.
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