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Windows 7
carbore:
Im running it dual boot, just in case, as I dont want to not be able to work if it is wonky. Also some of the problems are due to drivers, luckily mine all went through ok, but id be very careful about unsing XP drivers on Win7 (and for that matter XP system tools including virus checkers)
Mutz:
Vista drivers are compatible with 7, XP are not; 7PRO has XP compatible mode for running some progs.
As i said earlier, ive been running the beta version and really been looking forward to getting Win7 only a couple of minor hicups but now well pleased.
7 is the new XP, remember how many ppl slated XP when that first came out!!!!
I think the beta version actually ran a bit quicker, any body else found that?
dxmedia:
--- Quote from: Mutz on October 27, 2009, 18:00:06 ---Vista drivers are compatible with 7, XP are not; 7PRO has XP compatible mode for running some progs.
As i said earlier, ive been running the beta version and really been looking forward to getting Win7 only a couple of minor hicups but now well pleased.
7 is the new XP, remember how many ppl slated XP when that first came out!!!!
I think the beta version actually ran a bit quicker, any body else found that?
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How many people still slate XP ;)
It's a memory hog, the footprint is massive, it's unstable, it was commical until service pack 2 came out.
You can polish a piece of [!Expletive Deleted!] as much as you want. It's still a piece of [!Expletive Deleted!].
Why are you all upgrading though? it's only an OS. It will give you no benefit apart from loads of your apps wont work, that anti virus software which you pay a subscription for stops working. Ok it's pretty. There's skins for XP which will make it look like win7 (vistaII? VII 7 ;) ) for free.
And come on, just on the back of those tv adverts people should be campaining against it.
My totally non-techie wife said something funny to me last night
'windows 7 just looks like they've stolen loads of things which linux has' Oh linux is free, stable, software is free, games for windows generally tend to work fine under WINE, it looks better, it's less resource hungry, the foot print on the harddrive is smaller, no virusus, no spyware, brilliant hardware support out of the box which is far far better than XP, plug something in and it will 'just work'.
If you need to pay someone money, pay apple. I've OSX running on my advent 4211 netbook at home perfectly. All the benefits of linux but it's even prettier.
Windows, pah, wouldn't give it house room, and definatly wouldn't have any windows machine on my home network.
Oh memory map works fine on both linux and osx.
dxmedia:
ho ho ho
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/windows-7-performance,review-31714.html
Toms hardware have just benchmarked 7 v Vista.
Vista is quicker.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Hightower:
Um, are you sure that's what it said?
--- Quote from: Toms Hardware ---To better gauge the user’s performance experience or how fast the system feels, load times must be captured. While we could certainly have used a stopwatch, an electronic timer is far more accurate, and benchmarks such as PCMark and SYSmark use them. These programs indicate that Windows 7 feels 7% to 10% faster than Windows Vista, and that’s enough to make us give the new OS the nod in spite of its lack of differentiation in most of our other test
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