*Official * Windows 7 Thread

Kornowski said:
Ah right. I'm not going to bother... thanks.

EDIT: How do you think it would run on a laptop with a 1.3Ghz Celeron and (I think) 512MB RAM?
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danny you should try it out,its alot better than Vista...i actualy think it would run quite nice on that laptop because its not as resource hungry as greedy Vista.
 
I really like how they don't try and stuff things down your throat with the Windows 7. I mean, the first thing I noticed was that the sidebar wasn't defaulted to start up. At least they give you the option to run it at first or not.

What are people seeing regarding memory usage at idle? Thanks.
 
SIMP said:
I really like how they don't try and stuff things down your throat with the Windows 7. I mean, the first thing I noticed was that the sidebar wasn't defaulted to start up. At least they give you the option to run it at first or not.
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Yeah, I like the new sidebar.

SIMP said:
What are people seeing regarding memory usage at idle?
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Around 1GB for me. Same as Vista.
 
What I really like is the much improved UAC, no longer does it prompt you when you just want to open something in the control panel! (You can set it that way if you want though).
 
Its amazing so far my buddy and I were trying it last night.
Paint is more advanced, visuals are better, and so many more things.
It now has a rating system out of 7.9 instead of 5.9.
 
pies said:
It now has a rating system out of 7.9 instead of 5.9.
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My rating dropped down to 2.3 due to low disk transfer speed. :P

Every time I reboot, Windows runs chkdsk on my 7 partition. If I skip the check, I can boot into 7 and there doesn't appear to be any problems. Is this happening to anyone else?
 
i'm about to build my new computer soon. would it be stupid to buy vista 64 right now when windows 7 is like right around the corner?
 
Yup, I'm now at 3.0 performance, also due to disk transfer speed. My desktop graphics jumped to 7.9, and everything else stayed the same at around 5.9ish.

And yeah, I would definitely not buy Vista right now, because you can download Windows 7 now and use it until it actually comes out. Be quick though, because they are only allowing 2.5 million people to do this.
 
oregon said:
And yeah, I would definitely not buy Vista right now, because you can download Windows 7 now and use it until it actually comes out. Be quick though, because they are only allowing 2.5 million people to do this.
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so basically i can get a free OS right now?
 
I'm playing around on it now I never got the chkdsk thing either.
It looks similar to vista in some ways but it runs alot better.
 
DarkTears said:
So what do you guys suggest i do. i wouldnt know what to do if my OS just stopped working lol.
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Microsoft says that it will be deactivated in August. You would have to back up your files before the deactivation date and migrate to another OS... if the final version of Windows 7 is out by then get it, if not use Ubuntu or XP (if you have XP.)
 
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