Windows 7

Although I'm a Linux fan, I do have one machine running Windows 7 and have been running it since July, personally I think it is great. Looks like they took all the stuff that slowed Vista down out of it and now we are left with a faster more robust product (not as robust as Linux of course) but robust neverthe less.

Just out of interest - you know www.bing.com - Yeah Microsoft's search engine... guess what operating system it is running on?

You guessed it ... Linux - Here check it out for yourself

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.bing.com

Quite funny if you ask me

TacomaWorld is also running on Linux
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.tacomaworld.com

 

Kewl - Thx - So here's where I am now:

WXP Pro 32-bit
QX 6850 Quad Xtreme
evga 680i Mobo
2GB Corsair Dominator RAM (2x1GB sticks)
200G WD Caviar (for OS)
Raptor 150G HD (for games)
nVidia GeForce GTX 275
Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer

No OC on anything - all stock speeds

Planning on upgrading to:

- W7 Home Premium 64-bit
- 4GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 (2x2GB sticks) Might use other two older 1GB sticks for 6GB RAM if compatible. Yes? 680i can handle up to 8GB.
- WD 160 SSD (for the OS)

Colton - Is the recognizing of 3GB RAM, even if I have 4GB RAM, exclusive to XP, or is it a 32/64-bit thing? In other words, if I went with W7 32-bit, it would still show my 4GB of RAM as being less?

Things that make you go ... Hmmm

Appreciate yallz input.

 

Its a 32 bit thing

 

^^^ Fake! Those are not black people in either vid and the girls should have been kissing each other by now and the white guys should be all like, omg you are so ghey, and the camera man should have cut to the money shot like 5 minutes ago...

I call BS!

 

Dad works for microsoft so i've had it since January. i love it and would highly recommend it.

 

Pfft - as if there is such a thing - and where's the facial? FAKE I say!

 

Also, PSR is cool. Problem Steps Recorder. (START - RUN - PSR). Records screens and steps, saves them in a .ZIP file as an MSHTM file. (open in any browser).

Check it out. Freakin COOL. Would be a benefit to IT support staff, and documentation specialist.

James

 

I've been running it since the RTM build was released on MSDN a couple of months back, and I have to say... it's really solid. And not just for me as a power user, I installed it on my parent's laptop and they haven't asked me a single question switching from XP, so thats major points to M$ on the usability front. My favorite part is how it scales... at home, I'm running:

Core i7 Quad-core
6GB DDR3 in Triple Channel
74GB Raptor 10k RPM (system)
Dual 1.5 TB in Raid 1 (data)
GeForce 9800 GT (512MB)
etc... etc...

Of course, on that system, it screams. But it also runs very, very well on a two year old laptop with a Pentium Dual Core (not Core 2), 2 GB of RAM and a 5400 RPM disk. The one recommendation I'd have is to make sure your machine has discrete graphics, that makes a world of difference.

 

I had it back when the beta version came out and liked it so I picked up a copy when it came out. Only running the 32 bit for now even though I have 4gb ram installed. Obviously only recognizes about 3.5. Need to upgrade some other hardware first before going to 64 bit. Is working well so far. Definitely much more smoother running and faster than Vista.

 

just downloaded home version, can't really tell difference from Vista yet, Had no issues with running Vista so hard to tell if it is better. I like the wallpaper that comes with it though.

 

KK - being the dummy here - discrete graphics? As opposed to integrated - on the mobo you mean?

I have a GeForce 275 GTX. Am I W7 1337?

 

Yeah... you got it right. Discrete = not integrated into the chipset. Although there are some integrated graphics chips that are decent for desktop use and will run Aero, having an independent graphics card will really help out performance, especially as more processing for parallel tasks is shifted off the CPU and onto the GPU.

That 275GTX card is more than enough for any OS. I hope you're putting that horsepower to use on some games.

 

thats because linux makes for an kick ass server OS... but i have yet to be impressed with it as a desktop OS. However I am a big fan of OSX... and OSX & Linux are cousins after all

the user interface is very similar to vista, but it's a lot of back-end stuff and setting changes that really set it apart from vista. the backwards compatibility seems to be a little better as well.

 

Yup. Games and TW. What else is a computer good for? Oh, right ... my bad ... and porn.

 

I've been running 7 for a week or so now; 64bit Home premium on my HPdv2000 series laptop. I like it. seems smoother and quicker than vista was. Uses less RAM too it seems. I did get this when I got on it in one of my classes on friday though:

 

my experience with those types of errors so far has been because of bad drivers