windows 7

tpunx99GSX · 09-25-2009

So who has upgraded.
Being that my company is a Microsoft Partner, yesturday we got a couple CDs of the Full Version of Windows 7 Ultimate 32 Bit and Windows 7 Pro 32 Bit.
Today i upgraded my laptop to Windows 7 ultimate because my desktop is 64 bit.
So far so good. I like how it looks, i like how it performs. I would definitely recommend checking it out.

tpunx99GSX · 09-25-2009

Screen shot of desktop

INTRIGUED · 09-25-2009

So for the 64 bit users like myself is there going to be a 64 bit version put out? One could not do 64 vista to 32 7?

Nartanian · 09-25-2009

Vista ftw! Haha jk jk.

x-pride · 09-25-2009

I have been running Win 7 Pro for about three weeks now. Besides having two blue screen death. It works great.

viridionplague · 09-25-2009

windows 7 is supposed to use like 1/4 the resources vista does, everything ive heard about it from various sources say its pretty good

**mlomker** · 09-25-2009

I've been running it for many months (even the betas were excellent). I have 64bit on my main workstation and 32 bit on a Lenovo netbook (run Evoscan, ScanXL, and car stuff on it for the most part). It is unquestionably an improvement over Vista.

I still have Vista on my home theater PC because I've had some weird issues with content protection in the media center part of Win7.

mdost03 · 09-25-2009

I've used it for many months, started at the first beta, and it definitely is better than Vista.

**Kracka** · 09-26-2009

I'm very excited to get my free Windows 7 upgrade for my laptop! I have hated Vista since the day it came out. I personally will be running 32-bit 7 on my 64-bit machine.

tpunx99GSX · 09-26-2009

32 bit versions will still have the 4gb limit on ram. I have 8gb on my desktop so i wanna stick with the 64 bit version. I just need to download the 64 bit version from our microsoft action pak account.
Ill use 32bit 7 on my laptop, 64 bit 7 on my desktop and Windows Home Server on my home theater box to serve media to the PS3.

mukapahnpy · 09-26-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by x-pride

I have been running Win 7 Pro for about three weeks now. Besides having two blue screen death. It works great.

64 or 32?

I had issues with RC1 64, but 32 has been great.

NOT THE BLUE LAMPSHADE · 09-26-2009

Windows 7 rocks, and works, nuff said.

dumb_ricer · 09-26-2009

I downloaded/installed it as soon as the RTM version came out. Fresh 64bit install over a Vista64 install.

The first thing that I noticed after playing around with it is that my laptop idles about 10 degrees celcius cooler with Windows 7. The kernel is much more efficient.

Some of the features I don't know how I lived without. Shaking a window minimizes all other windows, dragging a window to the left/right of the screen will cause it to take up half the screen, which has many awesome uses, and bringing a window to the top auto maximizes it.

Mine has been pretty much dead stable, although every once in a while when I unplug my laptop, I get a hard lockup, which sucks, but it doesn't seem common. It's probably just a driver issue.

Oh, and if you have a .edu E-Mail, you can get 7 Home Premium for 30 dollars!

A//// Guy · 09-26-2009

Yup just in the process of putting it on my home machines. Actually going out to get new TB hard drives with raid for my home machine before I stick it on there. haha

**cmspaz** · 09-26-2009

64-bit's been out just as long as 32-bit has...

I don't know when I'll make the jump on my desktop, but I need to get around to installing the final release on my laptop, which has a beta release on it currently.

Matt D. · 09-26-2009

I tried out the RC at work and really liked it, even more so than Vista. Unfortunately it will be a long time before we stray from XP at work because a lot of our applications do no run on Vista/7. I have an OEM copy of Vista at home so no upgrading for me.