Windows 7

[TexasSP]

I think I will be upgrading. I have heard nothing but good about 7 and with the discount it's not that much.

[JThiessen]

Originally Posted by TexasSP

I think I will be upgrading. I have heard nothing but good about 7 and with the discount it's not that much.

I'd probably do the same Tex. But just between you and me, I bet you still have your problems. I've owned about 10 Dell's so far, and I've had two that were just pigs - shouldn't have been based on the specs, but for some reason they just wouldnt perform no matter how I configured them, or what the OS was.

[JoFreak]

I'm installing my win7 (MSDNAA) right now on my desktop-pc.
The win7 RC ran fine, so why should the final version be worse.
And since it's heavily based on Vista it's not an entirely new OS, so there shouldn't be any bugs as bad as there were in the XP and Vista relase versions.



Only a few minutes left till setup is finished


edit: done

Have just replaced the wife's PC (7yrs old) with a XPS8000 studio. Came with 64bit ver of Vista, she seems to like it, but I see what you mean about obtrusiveness - get asked to confirm everything you do. It came with the Win7 upgrade offer and I've already registered.

Its time to replace my 2 business laptops and I may wait for Win 7 SP1 unless I start having issues with either. Friend dnloaded the beta ver of Win7 and really likes it, but he jumped from XP and doesn't have any feeling for how diff/better it is relative to Vista.

[shaunjohnson]

meh i skipped all the vista rubbish and kept my copy of windows XP, it's served me well, and it does the job well.

[kulangflow]

I've been using Windows 7 for about 6 months on four laptops and two desktops. I absolutely love it, and I hate Vista with a passion. It installs easier and quicker. It dual-boots very easily, so you can keep whatever you currently run right along side it in case you run into any driver issues. I haven't had any driver problems myself. Oh yeah, it's way faster than Vista too.

Here's the craziest part: I installed it on an old Dell C400 (1.2 GHz CPU, 512MB RAM) and it actually works. No problems at all. Crazy, right? I'm a big XP fan, but I'm really impressed with Windows 7, and it's still new.

PS: I'm not a M$ salesman or stock-holder.

[jayjay283]

Windows 7 seems like what we have been waiting for LOL right.... People think Obama or George Bush are the devil... They sent us $300 bucks stimulus tax money..Bill Gates takes that and $62 more bucks to upgrade. Nazi

[snellemin]

Yes, the best thing about Win7 is that you can install it on old hardware, unlike the crappy Vista.

[shaunjohnson]

Originally Posted by jayjay283

Windows 7 seems like what we have been waiting for LOL right.... People think Obama or George Bush are the devil... They sent us $300 bucks stimulus tax money..Bill Gates takes that and $62 more bucks to upgrade. Nazi

we got $900 here....but at the time i wasnt a tax payer!! so no new RC for me, and the worst bit was that one month later, i did qualify

Haha I guess I will be the outsider. But I hate windblows all together lol. Nothing in it has anything for me except gaming. I dual boot my iMac and still have XP. My version of 7 is ordered though. I did the beta thing and 7 wasnt bad. Alot better then vista for sure.

[TexasSP]

FTR I hate Mac and their OS. I refuse to pay over twice for a shell which literally uses the same parts as most PC's. I also hate Mac's "we're better because we're better" customer service and their non "genius" bar. My wife has been through 5 ipods in the time I have had my second gen zune as well and I have accidentally dunked the zune in water as well, hers on the other hand just stopped working every time for no plausible reason. Then to have to deal with the Mac people that seem to think just because a PC exists in the same house as her ipod that that has to be the reason they keep failing, even though 4 of them failed with here Mac laptop.

Oh, and then try to network a mac and even worse get it to use a network printer, and this is with a Mac IT support specialist. Then the fact no one wants to write drivers for their proprietary code and so on........

I by no means love windows or think it is perfect, but for all around OS functionality, what else is there, really.

In response to JThiessen, my laptop is fast, it's just the OS that slows up. I have pushed it hard and I am happy with the speed of the computer.

I dont agree at all with you. I have had pretty much every ipod till the iphone and none of them have broken. And believe me, I do drop them, sit on the etc. And ive had every iPhone to, 2g, 3g, 3gs. None break, I just like having the new shiz. And you can make money selling them by jail breaking the phones. haha. I still have the original ipod ever made, the little 4 gig brick from like 6 years ago and it works fine. So you breaking ipods idk wtf your doing to them? But not one person I know has gone through 5 damn ipods. Thats just bs...

networking on a mac with printers, im sorry but if you think thats hard to do for some reason.... no comment. No drivers, again wth? HP and epson have all that stuff. Not sure about the little companies but for the most part anything we have used besides those 2 suck.

Besides Microsoft office everything else they make is shit. I will never buy anything else from them. Ever.

[tedo]

Originally Posted by TexasSP

FTR I hate Mac and their OS. I refuse to pay over twice for a shell which literally uses the same parts as most PC's. I also hate Mac's "we're better because we're better" customer service and their non "genius" bar. My wife has been through 5 ipods in the time I have had my second gen zune as well and I have accidentally dunked the zune in water as well, hers on the other hand just stopped working every time for no plausible reason. Then to have to deal with the Mac people that seem to think just because a PC exists in the same house as her ipod that that has to be the reason they keep failing, even though 4 of them failed with here Mac laptop.

Oh, and then try to network a mac and even worse get it to use a network printer, and this is with a Mac IT support specialist. Then the fact no one wants to write drivers for their proprietary code and so on........

I by no means love windows or think it is perfect, but for all around OS functionality, what else is there, really.

In response to JThiessen, my laptop is fast, it's just the OS that slows up. I have pushed it hard and I am happy with the speed of the computer.

Wow. I agree with BlackOutRevo: You think networking a printer on OS is tough!! What OS were you running (or trying to run)?

The only good thing about PCs: they're the only operating system that detects Hotwire. And even that is clunky and awkward.

Please Tekin, come out with Hotwire for the mac.

[suicideneil]

I hate Macs because they only have one mouse button... ITS NOT RIGHT I TELL YOU, ITS JUST NOT RIGHT!!!...

Anyway, I wonder if the castlelink will work with W7?

[kraegar]

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