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Windows 7 RC

Postby motoman » Thu May 07, 2009 11:57 am

Just downloaded it and I am impressed, it loads faster and gets very close to upstaging the Mac. I had the Beta which was merely an improvement on Vista.

I am now downloading the Virtual PC and XP mode software so that I can run older programs and hardware.
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RE: Windows 7 RC

Postby bruceb » Thu May 07, 2009 4:32 pm

On a new, fast machine with 4GB RAM I found it slower and less responsive than XP. I've never had Vista, so I can't compare it to that.

Edit: Corrected a small error of 1000. Thanks Tom. :oops:
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RE: Windows 7 RC

Postby dsc » Fri May 08, 2009 11:29 am

Hi guys,

I'm guessing that was 4GB of RAM Bruce:) if it was running a bit slow on the 4GB I'm guessing XP run as a virtual machine might be slow as well.

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RE: Windows 7 RC

Postby Sico2 » Fri May 15, 2009 11:42 am

I was very dissapointed with Vista, even though I had only Home version with my laptop. Now, I am running on XP only for little $20 games or other windows only-based applications. And on Ubuntu for everyday internet, media use-it's a fantastic system.

Once 7 is out and I can test it, may even consider buying one, but as for now, will stick with XP. today everything runs under XP, 7 already was considered as faulty system, even though it wasn't introduced properly. We'll see. What is it, December, the official date?
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RE: Windows 7 RC

Postby HughF » Mon May 18, 2009 12:32 pm

We have Vista running on a budget laptop and it does OK; if W7 is really quicker then the 64-bit version would be interesting as the laptop has 4GB RAM and no weird hardware.
My desktop PC at home runs WS 2003 but I'm interested in changing to Windows 7 64-bit plsu a faster system disk once W7 shakes down in 2010 as some software is vastly more expensive for Server OSs (e.g. DisKeeper. McAfee AV) and non-server hardware (e.g. basic graphics cards, sound cards) is rarely supported well.

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