Windows 7

[Abzu]

I just pre-ordered Home Premium upgrade for $50.



Come October 22d, I will be back on the 7.

[Teresa]

cool

[jawn galliano]

i might build a new machine next year, i'll throw 7 on there if i do i guess

[Abzu]

You could run 7 on a 5 yr old machine if you wanted.

[jawn galliano]

OS footprint is too big, i'm not cannibalizing half my laptop's hard drive for a win7 partition which i would use two days a week for playing one game. XP meets that need perfectly fine.

[Abzu]

7, allegedly, can scale down to run better than XP on netbooks... which are typically equivalent to 5 yr old normal boxen.

[Charles Bronson]

I'm not sure if its really worth it.

[Abzu]

This upgrade is a huge huge huge leap forward from Vista in performance, eye candy and functionality. If you are unsure, give the RC a try -- it doesnt expire til next March



http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/wind ... os=nonwin7

[Lavabug]

[quote name="abzu"]This upgrade is a huge huge huge leap forward from Vista in performance, eye candy and functionality. If you are unsure, give the RC a try -- it doesnt expire til next March



http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/wind ... os=nonwin7[/quote]

Is it possible to scale down 7 to use only <90mb of system memory like a trimmed down XP installation can? Because if not(doubtful, Vista trimmed down still idles at like 700mb on my comp), I really doubt it's going to run faster than XP on old PC's.



Btw netbooks have 1.6ghz cpu's, I'd say it's been 6-7 years since desktops have been in 1-2Ghz territory, my old 2.5Ghz P4 machine was over 5 years old.

[Abzu]

[quote name="Lavabug"]
[quote name="abzu"]This upgrade is a huge huge huge leap forward from Vista in performance, eye candy and functionality. If you are unsure, give the RC a try -- it doesnt expire til next March



http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/wind ... os=nonwin7[/quote]

Is it possible to scale down 7 to use only <90mb of system memory like a trimmed down XP installation can? Because if not(doubtful, Vista trimmed down still idles at like 700mb on my comp), I really doubt it's going to run faster than XP on old PC's.



Btw netbooks have 1.6ghz cpu's, I'd say it's been 6-7 years since desktops have been in 1-2Ghz territory, my old 2.5Ghz P4 machine was over 5 years old. [/quote]

Systems are in the 2-4GHz territory still, but what has changed is cores and the amount of cores on the die. Netbooks are not static at 1.6, they range from 1.4-2GHz, single core Atoms for the most part. I have not seen the netbook scaled Windows 7 in the wild (the RC and beta releases were the full splendid mate of mine monty Windows 7 Ultimate) but the slimming in 7 was done at the core and worked outward. Vista trimmed down or not is no reference point to 7. Like I said, though, I haven't seen the scaled down version in action, only read about it, so I can only go on speculation from the developers blogs.

[Charles Bronson]

[quote name="abzu"]This upgrade is a huge huge huge leap forward from Vista in performance, eye candy and functionality. If you are unsure, give the RC a try -- it doesnt expire til next March



http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/wind ... os=nonwin7[/quote]

I'll try it once I get my netbook.

[Abzu]

Windows 7 can scale down very well, especially when hacked around with.



This is from back in June...

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/m ... _ii_system



Microsoft Enthusiast Runs Windows 7 on a Pentium II System

Microsoft must surely be hoping to raise the bar higher with its Windows 7 OS. However, a hacker is more interested in figuring out the lowest depths Windows 7 can plunge to. Whatever you believe you know about the bare minimum specs required to run Windows 7 may actually be exaggerated, greatly exaggerated. A hacker on the Windows Club’s forum, who is only known by his cyber pseudonym hackerman1, has done the unthinkable by successfully installing and running Windows 7 on a Pentium II system. The rig boasts a primeval 266 MHz Pentium II processor, 96 MB of SDRAM memory and a 4 MB graphics card. Hackerman1 now wants to repeat the feat using a 166 MHz Pentium I processor and 1 MB video card.

[zim]

wow

[Abzu]

They did a good job with this one.

[zim]

[quote name="abzu"]They did a good job with this one.[/quote]



i'm not really excited about upgrading windows seeing as how i just built this pc last year.. but I'm interested in seeing it.

[Abzu]

That system would run absolutely fine then.

[jawn galliano]

pff that rig is weak. my p2 was 400mhz, had 128mb ram, and an 8mb video card. $3500 from gateway 2000!

[Abzu]

[quote name="Famous Mortimer"]pff that rig is weak. my p2 was 400mhz, had 128mb ram, and an 8mb video card. $3500 from gateway 2000![/quote]

That was the point

[jawn galliano]

listen if you really wanna run win7 like decently you're gonna have to shell out for the 400mhz, you know this

[seafoam]

i'll use it after it's released

[vO)))id]

I'm interested to see Windows 7.



Btw, a fellating lover of us just build us a new pc. We're going to pick it up next week. It's one of the best comps around right now with a price class of 1000,- euros. I payed 1100,- orso for everything, and it has all that we need. Still saved me a grand from an iMac, and it has better specs. I'm happy with this decision.

[Abzu]

[quote name="Void"]I'm interested to see Windows 7.



Btw, a fellating lover of us just build us a new pc. We're going to pick it up next week. It's one of the best comps around right now with a price class of 1000,- euros. I payed 1100,- orso for everything, and it has all that we need. Still saved me a grand from an iMac, and it has better specs. I'm happy with this decision. [/quote]

Specs or it did not happen

[bills bro]

my laptop pooped out so I bought this: <!-- m -->http://www.ebuyer.com/product/168998<!-- m --> and installed Windows 7 today, all my regular programs are working, - I like it!

[bills bro]

2 weeks+ in and i still like it

[Abzu]

I cant wait to put it back on this system.