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Title: Windows 7 Beta
Post by: dutch_619 on 2009-01-09, 12:56:24 PM

MUCH better than Vista IMHO.

Title: Windows 7 Beta
Post by: SmartBoy16 on 2009-01-09, 02:53:53 PM

where do you get the beta?

Title: Windows 7 Beta
Post by: dutch_619 on 2009-01-09, 06:05:56 PM

up until the Microsoft site crashed, straight from the source. There is likely a bittorrent release however.

Title: Re: Windows 7 Beta
Post by: dutch_619 on 2009-01-14, 10:40:15 AM

Got my first BSOD from windows 7 yesterday. Dislikes my older Nvidia cards it seems...

Title: Re: Windows 7 Beta
Post by: SmartBoy16 on 2009-01-14, 12:49:36 PM

i cant get win7 because i don't have a dvd burner. :(

Title: Re: Windows 7 RC1
Post by: Jam0864 on 2009-05-10, 05:59:04 AM

Windows 7 has it's first release candidate out.

You can download it here;
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx

Burn the .iso to a DVD and use the product key they give you, it works with full functionality until March 2010.



Here's what's new in the OS,
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/whats-new.aspx

(Also something they don't mention there, is that it's greatly more responsive than Vista.)




Have it installed as a dual boot at the moment, nice OS, although expectedly buggy. My wifi cut out whenever I played an online game for more than 30 second bursts, one or two of my programs didn't work and programs crashed a few times unexpectedly.

It's looking good so far!





EDIT:// if your hardware doesn't yet have windows 7 drivers, the vista drivers work perfectly. ;)

Title: Re: Windows
Post by: SmartBoy16 on 2009-05-10, 05:33:33 PM

hey has anyone downloaded win7 yet. if they have, is there a way to dual boot? i am officially (im serious this time, Brown is giving me one :D ) getting a decent laptop so i want to know if it is able to. (for once a computer that is not a hand me down!)

Title: Re: Windows 7 Beta
Post by: Jam0864 on 2009-05-10, 11:50:28 PM

Quote from: Jam0864

Have it installed as a dual boot at the moment

I have it dual booted with XP at the moment. Make a new partition, and install windows 7 on that, it does all the boot menu stuff for you.

Post the hardware spec's here and I'll tell you if you can run Windows 7.

Title: Re: Windows 7 Beta
Post by: SmartBoy16 on 2009-05-11, 07:08:44 AM

i cant quite tell you the specs yet, i dont get it until august...:( but i know at least its a Dell Laptop with (i hope) XP or vista

Title: Re: Windows 7 Beta
Post by: Jam0864 on 2009-05-11, 11:24:00 PM

If it can run XP or vista it should be able to run 7 just fine. Mine is snappier on 7 than XP. ;)