Windows 7

[TexasSP]

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.

[BrianG]

+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.

[jnev]

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.

[Arct1k]

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

[TexasSP]

Originally Posted by Arct1k

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

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.

[Raze ST Truggy]

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.

[bigboi146]

Do you have any screenshots?

[wallot]

If there are drivers available for your hardware then YES

[MetalMan]

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.

[Unsullied_Spy]

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.

[suicideneil]

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

[Snipin_Willy]

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.

[snellemin]

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.