OT: Windows 7
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VPell
Registered: Sep 04, 2008
Total Posts: 2277
Country: United States

To my PC peeps (aka my fellow brothers of the galactic empire).

Who's using and what are your impressions so far?

I'm going to install it in about an hour.

Also for fun, try and guess how many Mac users will troll this thread. Mac trolls, you can guess also, but don't forgot to include yourself.



MPLS_photog
Registered: Jun 02, 2009
Total Posts: 850
Country: United States

I've been using it since last June or whenever they put out that public release, and yeah, it's pretty great.



BurtR
Registered: Jul 11, 2003
Total Posts: 413
Country: United States

Put it on my and my wife's pc's last week and seems to work well. However I do seem to have some firefox freeze problems that the screen goes light and it takes a while to clear. On my better half's machine, when the screen saver comes on the only way to wake is to hit control alt delete. Haven't figured that one out yet.

Burt



ContagiousIdea
Registered: Dec 31, 2005
Total Posts: 4100
Country: United States

I've been on the ultimate for months now, wouldn't have it anyway. I do however still run Snow Lep on a separate HD for FCP.



ContagiousIdea
Registered: Dec 31, 2005
Total Posts: 4100
Country: United States

BurtR wrote:
Put it on my and my wife's pc's last week and seems to work well. However I do seem to have some firefox freeze problems that the screen goes light and it takes a while to clear. On my better half's machine, when the screen saver comes on the only way to wake is to hit control alt delete. Haven't figured that one out yet.

Burt


Chrome runs VERY smooth on my system, I've given up on FF. I've not had any problems with my screen saver. What version are you running?



iofocus
Registered: Jan 25, 2009
Total Posts: 37
Country: United Kingdom

I like it. Smooth and fast even on an old laptop I use for travelling.



Saad Syed
Registered: Jan 24, 2007
Total Posts: 2914
Country: United States

I wanna be "that guy" and say it first: OSX > Windows

Having gotten that out of my system, I'm actually considering installing Win7 on a spare HD and trying it out. My brother just bought a copy and my best friend also got one. I hear nothing but good things about Win7.



dannyrod
Registered: Nov 04, 2008
Total Posts: 497
Country: United States

ContagiousIdea wrote:
Chrome runs VERY smooth on my system, I've given up on FF. I've not had any problems with my screen saver. What version are you running?


Same here! Made a switch about a month ago, and Chrome is so much quicker . . .

Saad Syed wrote:
I wanna be "that guy" and say it first: OSX > Windows


No need to, it's a Windows 7 thread, not a which OS is "better" thread! No need to start that mess of a thread . . .



sboerup
Registered: Oct 13, 2005
Total Posts: 8869
Country: United States

Saad Syed wrote:
I wanna be "that guy" and say it first: OSX > Windows


+1

But, I've been running Win7 on a virtual machine, and I must admit that is a great departure from Vista and seems like a good Windows OS. But the verdict is still out, since people hailed Vista when it first arrived.



VPell
Registered: Sep 04, 2008
Total Posts: 2277
Country: United States

sboerup wrote:
Saad Syed wrote:
I wanna be "that guy" and say it first: OSX > Windows


+1

But, I've been running Win7 on a virtual machine, and I must admit that is a great departure from Vista and seems like a good Windows OS. But the verdict is still out, since people hailed Vista when it first arrived.


I didn't. It sucked on day one. I had it on my system for three days, went back to XP until today.



ContagiousIdea
Registered: Dec 31, 2005
Total Posts: 4100
Country: United States

sboerup wrote:
But, I've been running Win7 on a virtual machine, and I must admit that is a great departure from Vista and seems like a good Windows OS. But the verdict is still out, since people hailed Vista when it first arrived.


Ultimate Vista wasn't terrible at anything other than memory management. Windows 7 is VERY good at memory management. Just consider Vista to be ME and 7 to be XP and you'll get the picture.



mikelax
Registered: Jun 01, 2009
Total Posts: 82
Country: United States

I upgraded my home machine from Vista Ultimate 32bit to Win 7 Ultimate a couple of weeks ago. I couldn't stand Vista, but so far I am impressed with Windows 7. I haven't had any problems with the common apps I use, though I haven't really put Premiere Pro through it's paces since upgrading.

In addition to improving the stability of apps from Vista, they also cleaned up all the small UI items that bothered me in Vista.

My plan is to do a complete reinstall so I can move to the 64 bit version and add at least another 4GB of RAM.



T Bangerter
Registered: Jan 01, 2007
Total Posts: 748
Country: United States

Mac power JK my friend uses windows & loves it



Steve Tinetti
Registered: Jan 12, 2002
Total Posts: 2404
Country: United States

Just ordered a new Dell with Win7. Can't wait to play!



evertdoorn
Registered: Feb 29, 2008
Total Posts: 693
Country: Netherlands

installed it last weekend and it's super smooth and fast.



athamrin
Registered: May 22, 2006
Total Posts: 126
Country: United States

Windows 7 is sooo much better than Vista. Windows Vista is another failure product from Microsoft like Windows ME



widget_13
Registered: Nov 07, 2005
Total Posts: 533
Country: Canada

Love Windows 7, been using it since July.



Arka
Registered: Jun 13, 2003
Total Posts: 9971
Country: United States

Anyone want to come to my Windows 7 launch party?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oWWt_L-qeo

It's like any other party, but Windows 7 is the guest of honor!

Arka C.



morganb4
Registered: Nov 03, 2005
Total Posts: 4702
Country: Australia

VPell wrote:
sboerup wrote:
Saad Syed wrote:
I wanna be "that guy" and say it first: OSX > Windows


+1

But, I've been running Win7 on a virtual machine, and I must admit that is a great departure from Vista and seems like a good Windows OS. But the verdict is still out, since people hailed Vista when it first arrived.


I didn't. It sucked on day one. I had it on my system for three days, went back to XP until today.


+1. Microsoft hailed Vista, that was it.



maxwell1295
Registered: Jun 04, 2008
Total Posts: 5248
Country: United States

Looks like Win7 will be at the top of my off-season shopping list.

Vista is horrid...



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