Windows 7
 

I have Vista Ultimate, should I spend the 200 and upgrade to 7? This question is posed to people who have used 7, thanks.

What advantages have you noticed in 7 over vista?

I'd give it a few months before jumping on the bandwagon. Thats what I'm planning on doing.

+1. If you are at least somewhat happy with Vista, I'd wait until the first flurry of bugs are worked out. I usually wait until SP1 is released before jumping the gun.

I have heard good things about Windows 7 so far. I actually bought a new laptop recently so it came with a free upgrade to Windows 7. I applied for the upgrade earlier this week and should be receiving it in the mail next week some time. I'll let you guys know how it works.

I've been running it for 6 months - I like it... Not sure I'd justify that outlay though

Cleaner gui
Slightly faster
Much less intrusive access control

Do you have any screenshots?

If there are drivers available for your hardware then YES

About a month ago there was an offer for Windows 7 for college students, which I took advantage of. $30 for the upgrade, can't go wrong! Won't be able to download it 'til October 22nd though, when it is officially released.

I got the Beta and never used it. I have Vista Home Premium on most of the machines I use and there's nothing wrong with it. I know I will eventually go to W7, but not until it's more mature and I stop being pissed about dishing out all this money for Vista only to have a new OS come a few years later. Everyone I know of that has used it has really liked it so hopefully M$ finally has a winning O.S. out of the box but who knows.

I wonder if that student edition of 7 is like its XP predecessor- no need to register it... :whistle:

This is what I am looking for. I don't hate vista, but the speed could be better and the obtrusiveness is a pain. Dell is offering me a special upgrade price. I know it's not the machine, I have 2.4 ghz dual core with 4 mb ram on my XPS.

I got the beta and never had the chance to set it up.

I'm running the 64bit verion of the release candidate on my machine:

Core2 duo 3.16 E8500
8Gig of G.SKILL DDR2-1100 PC2-8800 RAM
GeForce GTS 250 Grafix card
350gig WD HD
LG Blue-ray

I'm not a gamer or anything, I just decided to build a computer and this is what I came up with . I'm only running this OS becasue a few people I work with suggested it and so far it has worked well for me. This thing will boot up in what seems like 30 seconds (though I have not timed it)

I have played COD 4 on it (the only game I've ever played on a PC so I have not other reference) and everything seemed to be great. I don't know if that speeks of the OS at all, but I thought I'd post up.

-Brian

Heard lots of good things about Win 7, but unless you like being a new OS guinea pig and dealing with virgin OS issues, wait for a few months.

Win 7 was available in beta for a long time, and free at that. I put it on my older Athlon 3200+ machine and it worked great. I'm sure they've worked out a few bugs since then, even.

Win 7 doesn't require more memory to run "fast" like vista does. Win 7 is faster when running apps. My buddy in the OS team at HP really likes Win7 over Vista any day. An he's been running it for a long time. I personally still run xp, but with the gui of Vista. I only run Vista on one unit and it runs ok compared to the xp.