I did a clean install of Windows 7 64bit on my i7-920 machine and it went flawlessly. I sprung for a new SSD drive and that coupled with W7 speed (over Vista64) make the machine sing. W7 performance ratings are 7.4 for processor and memory, 7.3 for primary hard disk, and 7.2 for the Radeon 4850 graphics card. Not bad.
I am having a few Firefox issues, like many other people. Some sites will stall between page loads, not freeze, just stall waiting for a page. Hitting the reload button usually causes the page load to proceed. DPReview.com has more of these issues for me than any other site, none on FM. I tried to run Firefox clean, without addons, to see if it was the addons (wasn\'t). Without adblock running I couldn\'t believe the tackiness of the ads on dpreview.com. I hear Firefox will issue a new release in a few weeks.
Be careful when you do a clean install after wiping the partition with your copy of XP or Vista. If you do this and then use an \"upgrade\" version of W7 you will not be able to get by the product key entry screen. Do some googling to get a step by step for workarounds. If you have the HD with your previous os install online the upgrade version will see it and let you finish the installation, if not W7 will declare the product key invalid. The upgrade does not ask for cd/dvd media of the previous os to validate ownership of a qualifying OS, it looks for the actual installation of the OS on the machine you are upgrading. With XP you must do a clean install and the manner of validation just described is going to generate thousands of calls to the MS help desk, nothing is mentioned in the 5 pages of documentation that came in the retail box on what to do if you have wiped the previous os from your hard drive..
So far I am quite impressed with W7, or as we call it, \"Vista Perfected\". Maybe this will be the one that redeems Microsoft for two tries to get win98 right, debacle of Windows Me, debacle of Vista, etc, etc.
Oct 25, 2009 at 09:04 PM
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