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Got a Dell D620 for a ridiculous price with Windows 7 Ultimate and I plan to spend quite a bit of today using it, as we here in the 'Burgh got 18" of snow and we are getting more today and tomorrow. Lucky me, I stocked up last week on frozen pizzas, Cheez-its, Diet Coke and Angus burgers. :thumbs:
Have fun! New toys are alway good.
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It is my pure and virtuous heart that
gives me the strength of ten!
It's like the Blizzard of '96 all over again, except this time around I didn't spend three days stuck in NYC, and then have to go back to Northern Virginia and D.C.; an area where "snow removal" seems to be more of a theoretical concept than a reality.
Streets in Manhattan were cleared within 24 hours. In the District and most of the surrounding area I was still getting stuck 2 weeks later.
I must say that windows 7 is nice. I installed it on my laptop, the pro version since I'm saving ultimate for my personal PC, and it was sweet. What drivers it didn't have I just used the XP/VISTA ones and it did its magic and blamo! :)
So far my only complaint has been it not liking the laptops video card. Rates its a 1.0 :) Considering the age of the laptop thats not really a complaint even.
Windows 7 does rock. The only issue I have read about so far is laptop battery time.
Just because I wanted to see I upgraded a vista home premium to 7 home premium.
It was a fairly clean install and not too old. I cannot believe how smooth that was.
Win7 gives consistently lousy Aero performance ratings to all on-board video. I have a Gigabyte board with an on-board Radeon 4200 video chip that scores something like a 4.9 for gaming and like 3.0 for Aero and Business graphics. The same board with a 4870 gets 6.9 for both gaming and Aero. And I thought Vista was harsh on on-board video!Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowDragon
So far, upgrading to Win7 has been the most painless upgrade I've done in years. Even Virtual XP works very well. About the only glitch I've hit so far was with a client who is still running Acrobat 5.0 (I know, I know) Acrobat ran fine but consistently generated a timeout error trying to scan from the client's Canon iR3300. oh well. At least got 'em to dump Acrobat 5. At last.
LOL @ "Diet Coke"......Why diet ? It's not compatible with the other junk (Burgers, Pizza and windows 7) Hahahahaha
He sure does have a point there Guts3d. The only way I see it being compatile with Win7 is if it was the Windows 7 N variants or if you really want to trim the fat Windows 7 Lite.Quote:
Originally Posted by HipHoper
By the way I love Windows 7. I've been enjoying tweaking it to make programs work that are outdated. It's not much of a change or work, you just have to understand what the older programs are looking for. Though there are some cases where a program just isn't going to work and those are the ones that windows will tell you upfront on thei install that it'll never work.
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Originally Posted by HipHoper
I switched to Diet Coke a few years back to trim off a bit of excess Gut, and am currently working on becoming Guts2D. My new problem is that my better half is a great cook!:thumbs:
I think Windows 7 will be what Windows XP is now in a few years. Pretty much everyone will have. Most of the people I know avoided Vista or had me help reinstall XP back on their system.
I've installed Win 7 on over six computers now. I'd gotten in the habit of installing drivers after an XP install that I was at a loss when I didn't need to do it on Win 7. Had a driver for just about everything.
The only one I worried about was an old wireless card in a laptop. It was so old it only had a Win2000 driver. Win 7 still accepted it and has had no issues with it. One nice OS in my opinion.
I have installed Win7 32 bit on quite a few computers, both desktops and laptops, and have had the pleasant surprise that 7 found all the drivers more than once. Makes me smile!
Nothing better then first boot to desktop and realizing you dont have to go looking for drivers.
So true! I have done about a dozen more installs, and I'd guess-timate that Win 7 found 90% of the drivers, if not all.
So true! I have done about a dozen more installs, and I'd guess-timate that Win 7 found 90% of the drivers, if not all.
Yes, and how about not having to spend a day and a half loading security patches, service packs and assorted updates?
I feel sorry though for anyone who has a botched SP1 install to fight through though. I have it with my workstation and the only work around is me using a Win7 disk with SP1 built into it to repair my windows installation. I have been too lazy to get around to downloading the correct iso for Windows 7 N 64bit so I can complete this task.
True, but at the same time I think most SP1 installations have gone OK. I did a trial on a corporate location last week, where I had to install SP1 to resolve an error message (MS had a hotfix for the issue, but it had been rolled up in SP1 and is no longer available for download). I worried that this might cause problems with some of the oddball software the client runs, so I did the initial installation on a single computer, and it was totally painless. I approved SP1 for installation on the other 22 computers running Win7, and I didn't get a single glitch. Big sigh of relief!
It is official, Guts3d LOVES Windows 7 !!!
Just bought a Dell T7400 and plan to upgrade the heck out of it just to see if it is faster / better than the monster rig I am using right now. I might just have to buy a bigger U.P.S.
Honestly 7 has been the best ever to deploy.
I pretty much install it and walk away .
Customers all like it after the initial ""Oh it isn't the same"
I have recently begun upgrading motherboards inside of windows 7.
That''s coming along nicely other then it kicking out the activation
for both Windows and Office
After working with Win7 a lot, it's really a shock to deal with Vista and XP machines; very frustrating. It just works... better. In fact, I expect that once I get over Windows 8 shock, I'll like it just fine as well. might take a while.
I just realized, I sold that original laptop some time ago and since have bought a few dozen copies of 7, all flavors and both 32 & 64 bits. If Windows 8 is anything like its older brother, I will be pretty darned pleased.
No matter how you slice it, I think getting over Interface Shock is going to be a big hurdle for lots of folks. When I was running the developer's preview, everything I ran on it used the Desktop, but there were still enough changes there to be annoying. I don't know that I'm going to have the time or energy to look at the Consumer Preview for a while. However, as usual, I read some of Ed Bott's commentary with interest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guts3d
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/the-m...r-preview/4610
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/sorry...-displays/4620
I think windows 8 is great for a tablet - but I really think that if you have a large monitor because you do video or graphic manipulation, Windows 8 desktop will be waste of time
I expect that Metro will continue to be a lousy experience on big monitors, but I expect the Desktop, where PC users will spend most of their time will be an OK environment. I installed the Developer preview on a spare drive and ran it as a production machine for a couple of weeks, and it worked OK, even if it was annoying.
I think Bott's point about Metro being optimized for small screens (the brave new post-PC world) is accurate. I expect MS will continue to support those of us who do real work on PCs; but we may feel more and more like stepchildren, and we almost certainly will be using Desktop.