Happy Windows 7 Day!

[Candlelight]

Just went down and played with Win7 Ultimate 64-bit with touch screen enabled.

Very cool. And surprisingly fast. They actually mean what they say for once!

 

[Amaris]

Just went down and played with Win7 Ultimate 64-bit with touch screen enabled.

Very cool. And surprisingly fast. They actually mean what they say for once!

Yeah. I was a "I'll believe it when I see it" guy, and then I downloaded Win 7 beta and thought, "this is the beta!?", because Vista as a beta was a mess, pure and simple. Win 7 already looked great. Win 7 RC1 was phenomenal, I was impressed, and now I just can't wait for the official release. In my mailbox probably by Monday.


J.

 

[Candlelight]

I've currently got Pre-RTM Build 7260 on my Mac and that's just working like a dream.

Will expire in March next year though so I have until then to decide to get a new one.

Which I probably will.

 

[Amaris]

I've currently got Pre-RTM Build 7260 on my Mac and that's just working like a dream.

Will expire in March next year though so I have until then to decide to get a new one.

Which I probably will.

Yep. I ran the beta on my iMac (my 3 year old iMac no less) and it was flawless. What I find funny is that Windows 7 will run on a 10 year old computer (shoved it onto one of my old systems) and run as well as XP in most cases, but Snow Leopard will not run on a four year old system as it will not work on PPC. It just baffles me. I like Macs, but yeesh, cutting off a lot of users there.


J.

 

[Sheep]

The various Windows 7 RCs worked wonderfully on my rig, so I preordered Windows 7. My $99 upgrade copy from Amazon should be arriving on Thursday. I already have a new partition set aside for it.

I look forward to the day I can kill my XP partition. XP has served me well for the better part of a decade, but since I haven't bothered to reinstall it (for freshness' sake) for about two years, it's REEEEEEALLY long in the tooth now.

 

[Amaris]

It's done well. Hard to believe I despised it right before it first came out. At the time I was running my computer business, and we didn't like the authentication features XP required, because we figured it would make our shops exceedingly difficult as we would have to call Microsoft to verify a legitimate copy of XP. I even had an interview with eWeek about it because I was rather...vocal... about my dislike of the OS.


J.

 

[Roshi]

I'm gonna wait at least six months, and make sure every driver supports the upgrade.

 

[Guartho]

but Snow Leopard will not run on a four year old system as it will not work on PPC. It just baffles me. I like Macs, but yeesh, cutting off a lot of users there.


J.

Isn't the main point of Snow Leopard optimization for the intel chips? I haven't gotten it yet so I could be, and probably am, wrong, but I'm under the impression that except for performance it's just like Leopard.

 

[JRS]

I think I will stick with the good old Windows XP still

 

[Samurai8472]

I love that this is being released on my birthday

 

[judge alba]

just out of intreast i notice W7 comes in three flavours are they similar to the flavours in vista?.
also this may sound stupid but am I correct in that if i buy a copy of W7 it can only be installed on one computer and not like for example one pc and one laptop

 

[Cutter John]

Happy birthday Samurai!

I've really loved the RC. Only trouble I had was I couldn't get my gaming mic to function properly. Though I suspect that was more a problem with my soundcard drivers.

Although I'm reallydreading having to reinstall all my software, and get used to new versions since a lot of my programs are old and won't run under W7, it'll be great to finally be able to use my 64bit processor, AND all 4 Gbs of memory. (currently using XP 32bit)

Charlie Brooker ripped into it a few weeks ago.

Oooh look how 'edgy' I am! I insulted Windows AND Macs. Guy must be a Linux geek.

 

[RoJoHen]

but Snow Leopard will not run on a four year old system as it will not work on PPC. It just baffles me. I like Macs, but yeesh, cutting off a lot of users there.


J.

Isn't the main point of Snow Leopard optimization for the intel chips? I haven't gotten it yet so I could be, and probably am, wrong, but I'm under the impression that except for performance it's just like Leopard.

They moved the "refresh" button on Safari. That's the only difference I've found so far.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I took the test, eventually. It says that my computer is able to up[grade up to the 32-bit versions of '7, but will need a "custom installation" (i.e. "backup everything and delete everything else then install away") if I want the 64-bit version (but that the computer is capable of doing so).

Hmmm. If I were to upgrade, should I stick with good old 32 bits, or should I push the boat out further and go for x64?

 

[Amaris]

Isn't the main point of Snow Leopard optimization for the intel chips? I haven't gotten it yet so I could be, and probably am, wrong, but I'm under the impression that except for performance it's just like Leopard.

It is a performance boost, and yeah it's for Intel Macs, which puts PPC macs (some of which are just as old as the Intel Macs) out of commission on that one. At one point you could buy dual core PPC or dual core Intel Macs. Anyone who chose PPC over Intel has lost out, even though they were manufactured at the same time.

Oooh look how 'edgy' I am! I insulted Windows AND Macs. Guy must be a Linux geek.

Well, to be fair, he insulted Linux too. I think he's just a curmudgeon.

J.

 

[John Clark]

I'm planning on going for the 64, just for the extra memory.

Before I do though, I'll have to check if some of the software I use will be ok with it

 

[Guartho]

It is a performance boost, and yeah it's for Intel Macs, which puts PPC macs (some of which are just as old as the Intel Macs) out of commission on that one. At one point you could buy dual core PPC or dual core Intel Macs. Anyone who chose PPC over Intel has lost out, even though they were manufactured at the same time.

What I'm getting at is that if Snow Leopard doesn't give you anything that Leopard doesn't except performance due to intel optimizations than Leopard is the PPC version of Snow Leopard, and it runs on some seriously old kit. I've got it on an 8-year-old Quicksilver G4 for instance, and it runs faster than Tiger before it, which runs faster than Jaguar before it.

If there'd been no massive architecture change I'm sure Snow Leopard would run on machines at least 6 years old.

 

[Amaris]

It is a performance boost, and yeah it's for Intel Macs, which puts PPC macs (some of which are just as old as the Intel Macs) out of commission on that one. At one point you could buy dual core PPC or dual core Intel Macs. Anyone who chose PPC over Intel has lost out, even though they were manufactured at the same time.

What I'm getting at is that if Snow Leopard doesn't give you anything that Leopard doesn't except performance due to intel optimizations than Leopard is the PPC version of Snow Leopard, and it runs on some seriously old kit. I've got it on an 8-year-old Quicksilver G4 for instance, and it runs faster than Tiger before it, which runs faster than Jaguar before it.

If there'd been no massive architecture change I'm sure Snow Leopard would run on machines at least 6 years old.

Snow Leopard is Mac's newest OS, which is why it's 10.6 and not just 10.5.9. (speaking of, they're already up to 10.6.2 because of some bugs causing mouse issues and data loss). I can run Windows 7 on a 10 year old system, and have done so successfully with very good performance. I like Apple, I really do, but I just think they're shooting themselves in the foot on this one.

J.

 

[backstept]

I'm going to wait until I get a new computer
my current desktop was a decent gaming PC that I built around 2005 and Mass Effect is just about the only 'new' game that will run on it

earlier this week Steam had a deal on Assassin's Creed for $5. Bought it, but can't run it
more incentive to upgrade I guess

 

[Cutter John]

Oooh look how 'edgy' I am! I insulted Windows AND Macs. Guy must be a Linux geek.

Well, to be fair, he insulted Linux too. I think he's just a curmudgeon.

J.

Hmmmm, bitter ex-Amiga user then?