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Old 01-19-2009, 12:58 AM   #1
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Default Windows 7 anyone?

i know there are boys and girls out there who are into their computer toys or want to be on the cutting edge of things (even though it might be crappy ol' Microsoft), so anyone put 7 to the test yet?

I've got the iso downloaded...and I'm thinking of taking my rarely used laptops and converting.

So...lets talk about it?! Problems? Ideas? Questions?? Troubleshooting help??

I don't have my MacPro, but if I did, i'd install it on Bootcamp to play.

Pics? maybe of you surfing CA with it?
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Old 01-19-2009, 01:09 AM   #2
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I have the ISO as well aand was going to put it on my wife's laptop.

It's just something about Microsoft products Beta version that always bites my ass so I'ld rather not chance it really. I was thinking when I get home to try it on my MBP but still unsure.

Let me know what you think of it.
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Old 01-19-2009, 01:17 AM   #3
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Old 01-19-2009, 11:07 AM   #4
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Seriously. I laughed so hard at that.

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Old 01-19-2009, 01:24 AM   #5
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I have the ISO as well and was going to put it on my wife's laptop.

It's just something about Microsoft products Beta version that always bites my ass so I'ld rather not chance it really. I was thinking when I get home to try it on my MBP but still unsure.

Let me know what you think of it.

HAHAHA put it on the wife's laptop....some famous last words!


Bootcamp r0x! Go and try it...it won't kill your MBP, just creates another boot partition that you can later re-absorb if you are fed up with Windows *.
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Old 01-19-2009, 04:45 AM   #6
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Why not put it on the wife's laptop!?!?!? I'll just tell her it's one of the updates Windows always sends and if it jacks something up then its jacked up.

DAMN MICROSOFT AND THEIR UPDATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I got the ISO too... might burn it and use it for a coaster...
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Old 01-19-2009, 09:59 AM   #8
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Default Re: Windows 7 anyone?

So...I woke up this morning forgetting that it was a bank holiday and that means a day off in the trading world!

I decided to give the windows 7 install a whirl on my Lenovo T61 laptop. The DVD installed in about 30 minutes, finding all my drivers except 2 bios looking ones. I'll worry about those later.

Its pretty. It is still Aero-ish, but it NAGS THE CRAP out of you. Updates went through fine. Then it started to ***** about not having anti-virus software on there. You can't install a current one, you have a choice (from Windows 7 website) to install beta AVG, Kapersky, or Norton. I'm not a big fan of the bloated Norton software, so I installed Kapersky.

Big mistake....if you hate nagging like me, do not install the anti-hacker crap. After about 5 minutes of allow this port and allow that port and allow windows to write to this and that...I had to get rid of the anti-hacker portion.

I'm not a big fan of Windows Media...so I downloaded my favorite GOM Player and it seems to install and work well.

I'll do Firefox now.

Boot times are fast (I'm running crippled with 1GB of ram). More impressions as I play with this.

Install is very friendly...so I imagine Bootcamp will be easy with a MBP, just hope that Apple is doing testing with their Driver install on Windows side.

i'll take a few screen shots and post shortly.
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Old 01-19-2009, 10:03 AM   #9
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Its pretty. It is still Aero-ish, but it NAGS THE CRAP out of you .
Wow, this really sounds like the huge improvement over Vista that was promised.


For what it's worth I have vista on my work laptop and after disabling all the nag-ware I think it is fine.

The problem with the "Vista wants to this, do you want to allow it" is that to the regular end user the "Yes" button becomes the "let me get back to work button" and those warnings become completely meaningless.
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Old 01-19-2009, 10:21 AM   #10
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What add-on did you use to put your links on the left? That looks pretty cool.
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Old 01-21-2009, 12:30 PM   #12
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Instead of creating a new OS maybe they ought to perfect at least one of there OSs..... Winblows
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Old 01-21-2009, 02:04 PM   #13
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What add-on did you use to put your links on the left? That looks pretty cool.
If you are talking about Firefox add-on, the ones I always use are as follows:

Tree Stlye Tab (puts tab where you want)
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Old 01-21-2009, 04:15 PM   #14
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What add-on did you use to put your links on the left? That looks pretty cool.
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Old 01-19-2009, 10:22 AM   #15
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Default Re: Windows 7 anyone?

I downloaded the .ISO and gave it a try, but I ran it in virtualization so I didn't have to erase a hard drive. Its pretty slick, but its in beta so I don't know how its going to end up. I just installed Ubuntu on my desktop and laptop because I'm so fed up with windows. I can't wait to see 7 when it comes out though. I've been wanting to get a new desktop pc, but I'm going to wait till 7 is bundled with them.

With all the articles I've read about it so far it looks promising.
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Old 01-19-2009, 10:39 AM   #16
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FYI...I never switched to vista. I thought it was very hokey and unstable at the time. I just didn't think it was made for an IT driven environment like XP was.

Ubuntu is a great start for non-Windows users.
So is Mac OSX Tiger....but there is a nice price tag that comes with that.
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FYI...I never switched to vista. I thought it was very hokey and unstable at the time. I just didn't think it was made for an IT driven environment like XP was.

Ubuntu is a great start for non-Windows users.
So is Mac OSX Tiger....but there is a nice price tag that comes with that.
Agreed. It seems pretty clear to me that Vista was a stab at grabbing some of the OSX hype/money.

Ubuntu is great if you can get the drivers you need. The whole driver/wrapper thing is over some people's heads though.
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although early is 7 looking promising?
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although early is 7 looking promising?
I'm really impressed with the boot times and the quickness it loads applications.
I'm running a Centrino Pro, which is a dual-core 2.0GHZ processor and only 1GB of ram (my other laptop needed more ram so instead of buying more....).
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I work for local gov't, and we've had Vista and now Windows 7 installed on a few test machines, but all of our production workstations are still running XP. Those extensions that Microsoft keeps pushing out for "upgrades" to XP? You can blame that on us.
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