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Zachary940
Wraith
Posted: 27 Aug 2009
06:58 GMT
Total Posts: 714 | Just wanted to give everyone a heads up on Windows 7. As I'm sure most of you know the relase date is October 22, 2009. Thankfully I am able to get a copy of it before then. Thanks to IUPUI and being a CIT major. Just to give you a compareison Windows 7 starts up with about 35 proccess, compared to the 60 Vista starts up with. There by 7 is a lot more ressorse freindly and is blazinly fast. The only down fall is the amount of custimiztion available to the user. Parts of the OS, such as the login screen, is too colorfull for my taste. Thanks to third party software that can be changed though.
There is also a huge diffrence between the RC and the actual full version. Things are much more stable and don't seem as quriky. From what I can tell 7 will be a great hit to the market. Not only is it stylish but it is fast and stable. Finnaly Microsoft got it right.
Also keep in mind that from now to Oct 22 any new PC you buy comes with a free upgrade to 7.
What do you guys think about all this?
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haveacalc
Guardian
Posted: 28 Aug 2009
22:32 GMT
Total Posts: 1111 | Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) came out on August 28 for $30. My 2 GHz MacBook can boot in <25 seconds and I have yet to come across any bugs. It speeds past anything that I've come across (see OpenCL, Finder optimized in Cocoa, x86-only apps, ect) and is really more of a tweaking-to-perfection than a full-scale OS update, since Mac users weren't in need of that anyway.
To contrast, I had the privilege of watching my friend's quad-core 3.2 GHz desktop running Windows 7 RC1 give a blue screen of death to each of his three monitors last week. It was beautiful. But from all that I've seen of Vista, I agree that Windows 7 will be an improvement. : )
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Barrett
Administrator
Posted: 29 Aug 2009
16:31 GMT
Total Posts: 1676 | I've been using Windows 7 RC1 since it came out, and it boots in < 10 seconds. Also, I've never had a BSOD... on any of my 4 monitors...
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tifreak8x
Administrator
Posted: 30 Aug 2009
18:15 GMT
Total Posts: 419 | Been considering getting 7 once it comes out, with my new hdd purchase. Tho I am unsure how much it will be for the full OS once it is released. No doubt a ridiculous price like all their software is. =/
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me2
Goliath
Posted: 10 Sep 2009
07:57 GMT
Total Posts: 171 | This is awesome. I can't wait to see an upgrade from XP. Vista wasn't one. >:(
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