Windows 7

Windows 7 has potential, assuming M$ doesn't FUBAR this one like they did Vista. It's not the stability of Vista that got me, it was the ugly bloated theme that sucked down a HUGE portion of your power.

So assuming Windows 7 is decent, there's only ONE of my machine's that I'd run it on, that being my CAD machine. For portability I need 100% uptime, and I have had NO windows machine give me that. For my server, I'm still sticking to Linux.

Here's hoping M$ doesn't biff this one too.

[killerofkiller]

Originally Posted by CraigHickman

Windows 7 has potential, assuming M$ doesn't FUBAR this one like they did Vista. It's not the stability of Vista that got me, it was the ugly bloated theme that sucked down a HUGE portion of your power.

You do know that you can turn Aero off, and run the 'classic' theme just like xp.. invest in some ram, i'm running a 2.5 year old thinkpad with an old ati x1300 video card and it runs great with 2 gigs of ram...

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by killerofkiller

You do know that you can turn Aero off, and run the 'classic' theme just like xp.. invest in some ram, i'm running a 2.5 year old thinkpad with an old ati x1300 video card and it runs great with 2 gigs of ram...

Agreed, our team laptop runs Vista but BARELY met the requirements so we just turned all the fluff off, went all the way back to windows 98 look and feel.

[killerofkiller]

also, i was using Win7 build 6956(the one that leaked from the Chinese Conference) for about a month. And i just installed the 7000 build (beta1)
Runs like a dream, all the drivers installed perfectly. CS4, matlab, office and a few others all installed just fine. (If interested in how to get it, just use the googles )

Originally Posted by killerofkiller

also, i was using Win7 build 6956(the one that leaked from the Chinese Conference) for about a month. And i just installed the 7000 build (beta1)
Runs like a dream, all the drivers installed perfectly. CS4, matlab, office and a few others all installed just fine. (If interested in how to get it, just use the googles )

I am going to wait until I can get the beta legally from the MS site but it's amazing the good reviews of this OS so far and just how badly people want it, thats a good sign that MS might have come up with a winner after all the bad press they got on vista. I can't wait to get mine