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kraegar · 10.18.2009, 08:36 PM

Win 7 is ok. At the driver layer it's really similar to vista, overall. Speed improvements in the gui are nice, and it's benchmarking slightly better, so that's good. Still lags a bit behind xp on my hardware, but not bad.

I have a mac, and like it also, as does my wife. Just works... of course, I'm an IT guy, so half my pc's are always in some state of rebuild or repair.

Can't say either of the mac laptops have given me problems. Nor the AIX box. Nothing runs like my NeXT (17 years and still ticking... though it's boxed up at the moment, ran out of space).

The only OS I get really frustrated with is Linux, it's so near to great as a Unix, but falls short in so many little ways. Oh, and vista64 when I ran into a case where the side-by-side manifests got corrupted, and no 32bit apps would run... including all the installers MS kept recommending to fix the issue. Rebuild was the only solution, in the end.

Wow, did I ramble. Yeah, so far Win7 seems OK. lol

Arct1k · 10:43 PM

Macs vs pcs it's like novak vs castle... They both do the job just differently...

The debate will never end but I don't think this was the aim of the thread...

PLAY NICE

Ps I have pc and mac and typing this on a 3gs

Sammus · 08:22 PM

I'm running a OEM copy of Win7 (retail), and was running the release candidate evaluation for several months before now. It looks quite similar to vista (ie screenies aren't much good) but it is MUCH less of a system resource hog. It runs heaps better and is heaps more compatible with everything, hardware and software. Vista is a total PITA and I hate it, W7 is by far the best OS I think I've run. (everything from windows 3.1 to 7, ubuntu redhat and gentoo and Mac OSX).

Arct1k · 10.20.2009, 08:37 PM

I ordered windows 7 yest to replace W7 RC that i've run for a while

TexasSP · 10.20.2009, 09:57 PM

Well thank you sammus, I think you may have just sealed the deal with me.

10.20.2009, 10:11 PM

I got an email from Circuit City with the pricing and all for 7. $110 for Home Edition 32 bit. Not running to order it yet still. Now my question. W/ Vista 64 on mine now, will there be any problems running a 32 bit OS in it's place? I didn't see a 64 bit option...

Sammus · 10.20.2009, 10:32 PM

There is a 64 bit option, I'm not sure why theyre not selling it. There isn't really any problem, but in a 32bit OS you can only utilize 3GB of ram, so if you have more than that it won't be getting used.

10.21.2009, 12:51 AM

Since we are on the topic what is the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit? Besides 32 bits and price. I have been pricing new laptops and I have noticed the option.

Sammus · 10.21.2009, 12:58 AM

It's pretty techincal, but basically the CPU and associated components work with blocks of data 64 bits in size instead of 32bits. There's some good reading on wiki if you're interested :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64_bit#32_vs_64_bit

10.21.2009, 01:07 AM

Thanks, I'll check it out.

wallot · 10.21.2009, 03:09 AM

standard home user does not need 32 bit as most application he uses are 32bit. However if you do thing like video editing i would go for 64bit as the extra memory you can utilize will help you in multitasking.

and beware of windows 7 as not every hardware vendor has drivers for it. for example Logitech still did not release mouse and keyboard software.

Arct1k · 10.21.2009, 05:21 AM

Key difference with 64 bit is memory adressing. A 32 bit os can only adress 4gb of memory. That's alll of the memory on your pc Inc video card memory

This is why if you have 4 gb memory your pc shows between 3 and 3,5 gb usuable.

For a desktop where you probably now have 4 gb or more memory I would get 64