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Offline persia

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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #14 on: October 22, 2009, 03:29:02 PM »
I received a request at work today, a lab with XP PCs wants to upgrade to Windows 7, first time I've received a request from someone who wasn't running Vista.  I'll let you know their reactions.  XP is really starting to show it's age.  I'm not a big Windows fan, but I've upgrade all the MSWindows machines in my personal life to 7.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #15 on: October 22, 2009, 07:34:02 PM »
I won't install Windows 7.

Windows XP suits my Windows needs at home.
Windows 2000 and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS suit my needs at work.
I also use Windows 95 OSR2 USB on my "old-and-trusty" Siemens PG720 industrial computer (used for PLC programming)

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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #16 on: October 22, 2009, 07:37:48 PM »
I installed windows 7 (one of the late betas) on a low spec laptop. It sure is better than Vista, but slower than XP Home on the same laptop.

If you have XP and it works ok, I see no reason to go to W7. The only reason for getting W7 would be if you were unlucky enaugh to buy a new PC bundles with the bloated Vista.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #17 on: October 22, 2009, 07:43:29 PM »
I'm going to dual-boot it with my current XP install for a while; probably going to do a total makeover on my wife's dual-core laptop next week or so.

I used the beta on a VM on this poky old machine (2 ghz AMD xp64 3000, 1 gig RAM, so that means the vm was essentially a 1ghz machine with a half-gig of memory...!) and it ran fine, just no aero effects as most VMs don't support OGL or d3d.

Overall I like 7.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #18 on: October 22, 2009, 07:50:29 PM »
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I installed windows 7 (one of the late betas) on a low spec laptop. It sure is better than Vista, but slower than XP Home on the same laptop.

If you have XP and it works ok, I see no reason to go to W7. The only reason for getting W7 would be if you were unlucky enaugh to buy a new PC bundles with the bloated Vista.



I see one or two...

DirectX 10 and soon 11... much nicer graphics in games....
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #19 on: October 22, 2009, 08:59:18 PM »
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I see one or two...

DirectX 10 and soon 11... much nicer graphics in games....


That, too.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #20 on: October 22, 2009, 09:55:51 PM »
Let's face it, we will all upgrade :)  We all want to be on top of things  :)  I tried it and love it so YES, I will definitely upgrade. Face it, Windows XP is near it's last breath. I love my amiga though. :)
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #21 on: October 22, 2009, 10:16:04 PM »
I am very happily using Snow Leopard on my Macbook Pro, but I will be upgrading my Samsung netbook from XP to Windows 7 at some time in the future (it's just being used as a external HD for the Mac now so I'm in no hurry).  The time is long gone that I would ever have a Windows machine as my main or only computer.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #22 on: October 22, 2009, 11:43:32 PM »
I love XP been on my systems that i built for work and home, but it is showing its age. I have Never put vista into any machine (tried it once along with office 2007) and both where crap.
But on every machine i have put Win 7 on in a work environment it has been faster then XP even on net books and such.
I just hope now Office 2010 is not bloat ware like 2007 was since office 2003 is starting to show its age especially the pst file size limit.
Anyway 2 computers done 16 more licenses to go on this batch. prob about another 50 computers to convert to Win 7 so far so good everyone is loving it, but i do have 1 secret i am teaming SSD's as C drive with Win7.... NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL FAST.
If you can afford it try a SSD with win 7 = made for each other.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #23 on: October 23, 2009, 12:33:59 AM »
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I see one or two...

DirectX 10 and soon 11... much nicer graphics in games....


I have a laptop with a Nvidia 7950 GTX card. No  reason at all for me to "upgrade" or infect my machine with VISTA 2.0 I will stick with XP. and besides DX 10 CAN run on an XP machine, just google it.
I did the whole beta test for win 7 and was not impressed at all with it. XP ran faster and way more stable on my laptop, and everything just worked. A WHOLE bunch of things had no drivers in Win 7, so after the beta was over, I went back to XP and have no regrets at all. Everything just works. I can even use my (non USB ) Zip drive. Win 7 can't at all see a "Non USB device"
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #24 on: October 23, 2009, 01:03:16 AM »
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Win 7 can't at all see a "Non USB device"


That sounds like a crap feature.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #25 on: October 23, 2009, 01:04:23 AM »
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I can even use my (non USB ) Zip drive. Win 7 can't at all see a "Non USB device"


If you're still using a parallel port Zip drive, you deserve an outdated OS.

..not to mention Win7 can indeed use non-USB devices.  What a ridiculous idea.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #26 on: October 23, 2009, 01:13:53 AM »
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If you're still using a parallel port Zip drive, you deserve an outdated OS.


Some of us still use 880k floppy drives from the 80s.  Where does that leave us? :-)
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #27 on: October 23, 2009, 01:33:35 AM »
Now they can get rid of those crap ports on the back of PCs, who needs PS2, Serial and Parallel in 2010?  It ticks me off that I have to use a USB hub when they could have eliminated the junk and put more USB ports instead.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #28 on: October 23, 2009, 01:38:55 AM »
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Some of us still use 880k floppy drives from the 80s.  Where does that leave us? :-)


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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #29 from previous page: October 23, 2009, 03:48:36 AM »
I actually came here to post a similar thread...

Since the PS2 I've felt like Gaming was finally cool again as the 64/Amiga days.

Since Mac OS X Tiger, I've felt that there was an OS out there that totally blew away the Amiga.

And now to my amazement, Windows 7 puts Microsoft on par with Apple.  I've been using it for awhile both at work and at home, and it's just really a big change for Windows.  

I'm using my Mac, with Snow Leopard, right now to type this.. And it's still my main machine..      And you have to give Apple some credit here..  They really have started to take off lately, and this was giving Microsoft some real competition, that drove them to make Windows 7 what it is.

This is awesome.  We don't want to be ruled by one OS..  We want competition because that's what makes things better.  

Thanks,

Neofree
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