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Arkon
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Posted 10/19/09 - 07:40 PM: Subject: Windows 7	#1
Has anyone tried it? Is it like XP or more like Vista? Is it worth upgrading to? (I prefer XP over Vista myself) Thanks.

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Posted 10/19/09 - 07:56 PM:	#2
You can still get an RC key before october 31st I think from Microsofts site, but you would need to find a torrent to download it (if you want it for free). I haven't upgraded personally, due to being at the end of a dev project, but I will in the next fortnight. I have upgraded some friends machines and they all love it. It runs like xp, but looks more like vista.
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Posted 10/19/09 - 08:00 PM:	#3
Nope. I do find it amazing though that my Vista's performance just dropped 10% this week. I was already tempted to switch over after I upgrade processor/motherboard in 6 mo.
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Posted 10/19/09 - 09:42 PM:	#4
I've been running the beta for a while. The differences seem mostly cosmetic. It doesn't perform any better than Vista, but then I never had problems with Vista -- at least, no more than I had with XP.

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Posted 10/19/09 - 09:42 PM:	#5
If you want to run more than 3GB of RAM you have to switch from XP.
Or not.

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Posted 10/20/09 - 11:19 AM:	#6
I love Windows 7 and have been using the release candidate for 5-6 months now and I think it is absolutely fantastic. I am currently dual booting with XP(triple booting in fact with linux but don't really use it)
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Posted 10/24/09 - 12:35 PM:	#7
Just installed 7 last night. I'm running 64bit installation. I liked 98se and XPsp3 - and I avoided Vista and ME, because they had cute names. My primary focus has always been on general performance and I've spent years trying to wrestle unnecessary resource leaks with the prior versions. Anyway, I think I'll actually run in a non-classic mode for the first time in a decade. It seems oddly stable; no weird delays in the OS menus. I hate to admit it, but the look of it is actually kinda cool. I endorse this product. My System: Intel 920 i7 6GB DDR3 32GB Solid State Primary Drive.
Or not.

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Posted 10/24/09 - 02:24 PM:	#8
I'm anxiously waiting for it to arrive in the mail. I'm tired of programs, especially games, doing the herky-jerky because xp can't use more ram. Windows 7 is also coming out just as the technology for graphics cards has reached a new milestone. Besides directx 11 and other optimizations that allow graphics cards to play HD games at high frames per second these newest cards are just plain fast and can play any directx 9 or 10 game at rediculous speeds. They are also optimized for allowing the cpu and gpu to work together to do parallel processing to speed up other programs as well as games. In other words, windows 7 and the new graphics cards are what microsoft said vista would be and wasn't. I don't expect perfection, but all the reviews pretty much agree that windows 7 is just a more polished version of vista but, combined with the new graphics cards and directx 11, it can actually do everything they originally promised vista would be able to do and couldn't. Microsoft even decided to change the way they do business and took feedback from manufacturers and customers. They cut out the usual crapware (unwanted software) they usually bundle into your operating system installation and designed the system so it doesn't constantly bug you with unsolicited pop-up ballons and security warnings.

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Posted 10/24/09 - 02:29 PM:	#9
I did have one scare when I first installed the new OS. For some reason they make the option to rotate the desktop 180 degrees and invert the mouse motion very easy to access. And the graphic card's driver installation disc wouldn't run, but all this was resolved in a few minutes. I did get quite a laugh by seeing by entire desktop inverted -after about 25 seconds of using the new OS.
Or not.

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Posted 10/24/09 - 02:52 PM:	#10
We use an XP desktop, Vista laptop, iMac, Powerbook and a Eee PC on which I killed windows by installing Ubantu. There is no way I would buy a Windows PC. The Macs allow me to get stuff done without any fuss. If I want something cheap, I will get a Linux box.
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