Windows 7 is awesome

[Jaymz9350]

Windows 7 has a virtual machine XP on it. It will allow you to run a virtual XP so you can run all programs that will only work on XP.

Only on Professional or Ultimate, not included in the Home version.

I thought the minimum system requirements for ram on Windows 7 was 1 gig of ram?

http://windows.microsoft.com/systemrequirements

That's to keep people with pc's full of bloatware and every app under the sun running on start-up from whining about how there pc meets the specs but runs like crap.

 

[97RangerXLT]

I running win 7 ultimate and absolutely love it.

Same here.

Ditto. Love it. got my copy through IU (wife works there) for 20 bucks

2GB? I have been running 7 Ultimate on a laptop that has 512MB of RAM and it is doing as good as my 4GB DDR3 desktop.

I have the final release candidate running on a celeron 3.2 w/ 512 mb ram. no issues whatsoever in performance.

I like the homegroups networking on it.

One of these days I am going to upgrade the laptop from Vista to Win 7...

AJ

 

[sbsumerix]

just downloaded windows 7 on my laptop going from vista to 7 is a world of difference even my internet is faster. i love it and totaly worth the entire 29.99 i spent on it for a 32 bit home premium. microsoft had a student discount and my school acually qualified so i got it and im not going back

 

[97RangerXLT]

Just finished upgrading the lap top to win 7. much much much faster than vista.

AJ

 

[tony314]

Windows 7 gives me hope again lol

 

[Ranger Sport Honduras]

its cool, faster and simplier, but the damn starter version wont let me change my wallpaper
i was stuck with the gay wallpaper microsucks decided, and i tried the "do it yoursel trick" of replacing the picture with any other by changing the file permissions and no good, now i have no wall paper.
other than that and the fact that age of empires 1 and 2 wont run, works great for me

 

[Buddha62]

i have all 3, XP Vista, and windows 7 RC on 4 machines. my bottom line is if you are running XP and are not having any problems stick with it. its familiar, its tested,its compatible with everything, No driver issues and works with everything.
Vista is more like Windows ME..... it was pretty and fluffy and tried to simplify everything but in the end it really didnt add anything from a users standpoint. it was a resource hog, had a decent learning curve to it, and had alot of compatibility problems. However it was stable but like windows ME it didnt offer much for the price. i tried to sell vista ultimate on Ebay for $40 and had no takers. seems no one wants it even me.

Windows 7 is very good and very stable. it also offers virtualization and allows you to run XP application in seamless windows XP virtual envirerment.(this means you can run xp programs in XP inside of win7) it also offers security enhancements and is very stable. it has driver support built in for most hardware and many other enhancements. Windows 7 is a great system for users but if you are someone who doesnt do much but internet,emails, office and some games its hard to justify spending the money for it. i am running win 7 RC with 8 gig but even gaming i never use more then 3 gig of ram as my graphics card takes a big hunk of any gaming load.

Xp still does what Win 7 and vista does and its cheap and already on most systems. My opion is if you get 7 with a new computer fine but not worth spending money to buy or upgrade for.