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Post by Robin Hood on Nov 2, 2009 13:52:59 GMT -6
I got my new hard drive in the mail this morning and am in the process of moving all my goodies over to Windows 7... I have been waiting a LONG time for this.
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Post by Chicago Jake on Nov 2, 2009 14:34:23 GMT -6
I'll look forward to a review. I've managed to not buy a new Windows machine during the Vista era, hopefully I'll be free to upgrade with Se7en.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Nov 2, 2009 14:46:06 GMT -6
RH, what's with all the Win7 excitement? I thought you were a Linux guy.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Nov 2, 2009 14:46:46 GMT -6
I too am going to wait on this. I heard all of the praise before Vista came out, and paid the price by buying a computer with it installed, only to have to downgrade later. Cynical, on this, you bet.
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Post by Robin Hood on Nov 2, 2009 15:33:04 GMT -6
I have been running Win7RC for months... I LOVE it, MUCH MUCH improved over vista, they took a page from Apples book with the task bar. This incantation of Windows is the best they have ever done, they borrowed a lot of the good things from both Apple and Linux. This OS is the smoothest I have ever seen as far as how things work with each other.
I am a Linux guy, however...Adobe products don't run on Linux machines... all my secondary machines run some flavor of Linux, but my main machine has to run Windows.
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Post by dean on Nov 2, 2009 20:37:31 GMT -6
My father-in-law was needing a new laptop as his Windows ME system was getting a bit long in the tooth. We found a heck of a deal at Staples on an Acer with an Athlon x2 and Windows 7. Seems to be a real nice system for the money. Win7 seems much better than Vista on my Dell XPS, with many small improvements and a slicker interface. We'll wait to see how the stability goes.
It's interesting that he had an older HP multi-function printer/fax/scanner that Win7 recognized and fully loaded drivers for all functions. Seems to work all functions perfectly without loading any HP software/bloatware. Very nice.
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Post by Robin Hood on Nov 2, 2009 21:09:35 GMT -6
Windows 7 just finds drivers and installs them for lots of shit... nothing in my main machine required more than a cursory look to see if it got the right driver for the hardware.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Nov 4, 2009 11:39:33 GMT -6
Windows 7's real killer featureGordon, if this is true, then it might make for a compelling reason for you to upgrade, given the kinds of resource - intensive applications you run for your business.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Nov 4, 2009 12:17:08 GMT -6
Very true Beeb. If that is true, I may finally be able to dump my Win2000 virtual machine for doing the heavylifting.
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Post by Exildo Wonsetler Briggs III on Nov 5, 2009 0:02:11 GMT -6
Given that most folks use their computer for email, surfing the web and an occasional letter or two, Windows 95 can do all that just fine.
But, if Windows 7 can use my quad core to boost my totals on SETI, then I'm all for it!!
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Nov 5, 2009 9:08:51 GMT -6
The commercials are promoting it as a more stable environment and friendlier GUI ("We've ripped off the MacOS again!"), so that's how I think they're trying to convince home users to give it a shot.
The inherent problem with using Win95 (or 98 for that matter) is that you'll have a difficult time connecting devices to it: 95 doesn't know USB and 98 only supports USB 1.1 (and that's only in 98SE, I believe). Also, newer browsers won't run on the older OS's and they've retired support on the older browsers, so using such an ancient OS leaves you open to security risks.
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