Windows 7

[TexasSP]

Originally Posted by BlackedOutREVO

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.

Wow, you have no clue how to argue a case do you. Why is it every mac lover feels the need to invade a thread that has nothing to do with a mac and talk crap. I really could care less if you believe my wife went through 5 ipods or not. You also may want to retake some reading comprehension classes as I said my wife and not myself had these.

One of my best friends is a Mac specialist, and while he loves Mac he admits they are far from the perfect system Mac lovers want you to believe they are. This isn't some 22 year old kid fresh out of college that has no experience but a guy who is almost 40 with over 20 years IT experience.

I am sorry, but you came out like a total douche in your post saying you don't agree with the FACT that I have had and seen many problems with Macs.

[Arct1k]

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]

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]

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

[TexasSP]

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

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]

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.

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]

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

Thanks, I'll check it out.

[wallot]

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]

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