How good does it work for gaming? I just ordered the parts from new egg for my rig thats in my sig. Should i install vista 64 or go to Windows 7 right off the bat?
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Originally posted by: ultimatebob
I'm disappointed... I was expecting more smartassed Linux answers.
I edited it just for you.
Quiksilver
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Windows 7 Professional is most likely, unless Ultimate appears on sale somewhere within a few dollars of the prices.
Although to be honest I don't need a majority of the features in Ultimate; hell I have vista ultimate and I don't use 90% of those bonuses.
Hell the only thing that is keeping me from saying home premium, is that I need the EFS, LAP, and GP. Which aren't included in home premium.
Although to be honest I don't need a majority of the features in Ultimate; hell I have vista ultimate and I don't use 90% of those bonuses.
Hell the only thing that is keeping me from saying home premium, is that I need the EFS, LAP, and GP. Which aren't included in home premium.
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No deadline according to Microsoft. They say they will release when quality threshold is high enough.
At home, I use OS X. Work, probably Windows 7 Enterprise, as we currently have a blanket license for Vista Enterprise. I have to test it on our systems to see if it fairs any better than Vista did.. or we'll still be using XP.
Whatever version my work upgrades to. We skipped Vista, but after 7 is evaluated that's the way they will move. I won't be buying it for home use though.
videogames101
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Most certainly W7 64-bit, as long as you're willing to look around for afew drivers and a few hacks for certain programs.
ultimatebob
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PepePeru
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i installed win7 64 beta when it came out. no wireless driver = no internet = no real usage for me. i will delete that partition pretty soon.
however, it did load pretty fast on my 5200+ 2 gb ram machine and seemed very responsive in my brief experience. Everything worked ,except internet
immediately after install.
however, it did load pretty fast on my 5200+ 2 gb ram machine and seemed very responsive in my brief experience. Everything worked ,except internet
immediately after install.
jlee
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Originally posted by: G Wizard
i installed win7 64 beta when it came out. no wireless driver = no internet = no real usage for me. i will delete that partition pretty soon.
however, it did load pretty fast on my 5200+ 2 gb ram machine and seemed very responsive in my brief experience. Everything worked ,except internet
immediately after install.
I loved it at first..then I decided to format/reinstall and run XP/7/Linux- when I reinstalled 7, my wireless NIC no longer worked. It worked the first time.
destrekor
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I currently have Vista SP1, but I started with Vista not too long after it was released, and other than driver difficulty due to choosing Vista 64bit, I've had no complaints. Far better than XP, and I used XP for years. XP was easy to screw up, and my XP installs would BSOD at least once a month.
I think I've encountered 1 BSOD since installing Vista. It's stable as all hell, absolutely love it.
While my main PC was down, I was using my laptop. I performed an upgrade install to the Windows 7 beta. Holy shit, agreed - that is what Vista should have been. The taskbar is amazing, the OS in general is even more intuitive, and is very stable. Application compatibility is a little off at the moment, but I've been able to do basically everything I want to on it. Now that I fixed my main PC, it's hard to resist upgrading to W7 Beta. But with this system, and with all the apps I use on it, I don't want to risk application compatibility just yet.
But with RC1 releasing in a few months, I am definitely betting on W7 hitting retail before the end of the year, and I actually expect it in the Fall, maybe September or October. And I was expecting that before they even mentioned the next beta being a Release Candidate. Since it's built on the Windows 6 kernel, I knew it wouldn't take a ton of work to make the new OS work, unlike building Vista from scratch (building the 6 kernel), which was a total rebuild of Windows. But an awesome and worthwhile rebuild, an extremely capable kernel, and thus I am stoked for W7.
I think I've encountered 1 BSOD since installing Vista. It's stable as all hell, absolutely love it.
While my main PC was down, I was using my laptop. I performed an upgrade install to the Windows 7 beta. Holy shit, agreed - that is what Vista should have been. The taskbar is amazing, the OS in general is even more intuitive, and is very stable. Application compatibility is a little off at the moment, but I've been able to do basically everything I want to on it. Now that I fixed my main PC, it's hard to resist upgrading to W7 Beta. But with this system, and with all the apps I use on it, I don't want to risk application compatibility just yet.
But with RC1 releasing in a few months, I am definitely betting on W7 hitting retail before the end of the year, and I actually expect it in the Fall, maybe September or October. And I was expecting that before they even mentioned the next beta being a Release Candidate. Since it's built on the Windows 6 kernel, I knew it wouldn't take a ton of work to make the new OS work, unlike building Vista from scratch (building the 6 kernel), which was a total rebuild of Windows. But an awesome and worthwhile rebuild, an extremely capable kernel, and thus I am stoked for W7.
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