Anyone have Win7, but is just too lazy to install it?

[jlee]

My roommate installed it on his new build this morning and it took what...all of 30 minutes? Get unlazy and just do it.

 

[LTC8K6]

Have they solved the Black Screen Of Death problem yet?

 

[Kirby]

I think have a copy through MS Academic Alliance. Too lazy to backup and install it, if it's even there.

 

[QueBert]

takes minutes to do, just do it.

Uhhh minutes? I didn't look at a clock before or after I installed it, but it definitely took me at least an hour and a half, maybe more. It was painless but easily the longest OS install I've ever encountered. And to make it worse it had no time indicator. Shit it might have took 2 1/2 hours, I just know it was looooooong. I don't have the latest hardware, but you shouldn't need an i7 with 8 gigs of memory to install an OS in a reasonable amount of time.

 

[vshah]

Uhhh minutes? I didn't look at a clock before or after I installed it, but it definitely took me at least an hour and a half, maybe more. It was painless but easily the longest OS install I've ever encountered. And to make it worse it had no time indicator. Shit it might have took 2 1/2 hours, I just know it was looooooong. I don't have the latest hardware, but you shouldn't need an i7 with 8 gigs of memory to install an OS in a reasonable amount of time.

did you do an upgrade? upgrades take way way longer than clean installs

 

[Aharami]

waiting for a good deal on DDR2 ram. Need to pick up atleast 2 more gigs before i install win 7 64-bit. Right now I have 2 gigs and I dont think that will be enough

 

[phoenix79]

I've had it since release but haven't installed. Currently running the beta and it runs fine, so why change...

 

[TwiceOver]

Got it as an upgrade, haven't found a reason to switch from Ubuntu at this point.

 

[Train]

takes minutes to do, just do it.

It was surprisingly easy to upgrade, definitly the fastest and smoothest upgrade of windows I've seen, and I've upgraded to every single release (Except WinME) since 3.11

 

[Pepsei]

have the beta version running still... too lazy to install the free ultimate edition that i got from the Microsoft event. need to move 500 gig of stuff first.

 

[CRXican]

send me a copy

 

[jlee]

waiting for a good deal on DDR2 ram. Need to pick up atleast 2 more gigs before i install win 7 64-bit. Right now I have 2 gigs and I dont think that will be enough

It'll work fine, but 4 would be better for doing stuff.

Uhhh minutes? I didn't look at a clock before or after I installed it, but it definitely took me at least an hour and a half, maybe more. It was painless but easily the longest OS install I've ever encountered. And to make it worse it had no time indicator. Shit it might have took 2 1/2 hours, I just know it was looooooong. I don't have the latest hardware, but you shouldn't need an i7 with 8 gigs of memory to install an OS in a reasonable amount of time.

My roommate installed it this morning and it didn't take nearly that long - on an i5 / 4Gb. It was also pretty quick on my E5200. Maybe you suck.

 

[QueBert]

did you do an upgrade? upgrades take way way longer than clean installs

Yes, but I upgraded from RC1, I don't see how upgrading from RC1 to retail should take longer lol. If the clean install is that much quicker I apologize for my comment, I figured an upgrade would be the quickest route.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Did it over the t-day weekend. So easy, and 7 is nice.

 

[Barfo]

no

 

[vshah]

Yes, but I upgraded from RC1, I don't see how upgrading from RC1 to retail should take longer lol. If the clean install is that much quicker I apologize for my comment, I figured an upgrade would be the quickest route.

any type of upgrade involves a whole lot of cataloging of existing system files etc.

It probably would have been faster to do a clean install and then reinstall your required apps, unless you have some insane number of apps or difficult configuration to do post-install that you don't want to lose.

i installed from a USB key to an ssd in my laptop in under 20 minutes

 

[MercenaryYoureFired]

I did a clean install and Windows gave me an entire folder with the all the contents of Windows XP so I just copied and moved most of the files over so I didn't have to reinstall everything.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

im too lazy to migrate. i hav ea n installation. used it for 10 min. bam. back to XP.

 

[chr6]

i have it, but tbh my vista format from 2 years ago is still running very smooth. i havent had many issues with it. i recently built an htpc and put windows 7 on it to try out, and it is great, so i might upgrade my main computer soon. a little off-topic, but theres no classic start menu anymore right? i do love the classic menu

 

[cronos]

Is that because you're happy enough with Leopard, or because Windows 7 is so awesome you don't feel like using your Mac?

I installed Snow Leopard pretty soon after it was released... had some minor issues, which is probably contributing to my lack of desire to install Windows 7. And also, I got my Mac Mini 6 months ago along with VMWare Fusion, and I haven't even installed Fusion yet because all of my software needs have been met so far.

Yes, it's because I've been happy enough with Leopard and never felt the need to upgrade (in a 'don't fix it if it ain't broke' sense). I will probably end up getting SL installed if I upgrade my hard drive in the next couple of months though. Starting from a fresh hard drive I don't see any reason installing an older OS when I already have the next version.

I've been using both OS the same amount (Windows on my desktop, MacOS on my Macbook) before and after the releases. I guess my experience must have shown that Vista to 7 is a much much bigger need to me than Leopard to Snow Leopard. I'm not even one of those Vista haters, and it's been behaving decently for me. However there's just these few things that it has that I couldn't wait to get rid of when I found out that 7 fixes or change them. Leopard doesn't have anything like that in Snow Leopard.

 

[QueBert]

any type of upgrade involves a whole lot of cataloging of existing system files etc.

It probably would have been faster to do a clean install and then reinstall your required apps, unless you have some insane number of apps or difficult configuration to do post-install that you don't want to lose.

i installed from a USB key to an ssd in my laptop in under 20 minutes

I see, doubtful about it would have been faster, I have a couple stupid apps I use that take 45+ minutes to install. Not complaining though, they fixed a lot of my install beefs from XP, I was always puzzled why XP would stop and wait for you to set the date/time before it would continue. A straight though install was very nice. 20 minutes clean sounds wonderful I might have to try it just to see for mysef.

 

[chin311]

i installed in on my laptop my gf uses a few weeks ago, quick setup. vista started being kinda quirky after working well for almost 2 years on my desktop so i just loaded x64 ultimate on it, feels snappier. everything worked right off the bat except for my linksys pci adapter.

 

[lifeobry]

I also have W7 and am too lazy to install it. I think I'll wait for the first service pack.

 

[Muadib]

I did my M1530 last weekend while watching the Vikings. I was done way before halftime, but I was pissed that they want money to upgrade the fingerprint scan software.

 

[Imported]

Installed it on my laptop.. but haven't on my desktop yet. Not so much being lazy as I was just waiting for a good deal on a new hard drive to install it on (WD640 Black for $50 fulfilled that).. but now I gotta find time to install.