Windows 7 (Poll)

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How would you rate Windows 7? (Answer only if you have tried!)

Excellent
4
40%
Good
3
30%
Okay
1
10%
Bad
0
No votes
Awful
2
20%
 
Total votes: 10

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kaisellgren
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Re: Windows 7 (Poll)

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I downloaded it from MSDN and used a key from the MS beta key site. It should be valid for a couple of months, someone said, one full year.

I am running right now Windows 7 on my PC. With everything enabled and all extra granual effects, it's eating 650 MB of RAM out of my 4096 MB. It is x64, and I am runnning Apache x64, PHP x64, nginx x64, lighttpd x64, MySQL x64 (or is it x86, I don't remember), PostgreSQL and latest NVIDIA drivers and games play faster, too.

Actually, with same graphical settings, Age of Empires 3 plays at average 48 FPS on my machine with Windows 7 while XP gave me 44 FPS and Vista 41 FPS ;)

It seems that browsing my icon folder, which contains roughly 19 500 icons, is not a big deal for Windows 7 as it was for earlier Windowses.

This is still a beta version. The stable/final will be probably better. So far I have experienced no problems with this. No crashes, nothing.
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kaisellgren wrote:It is x64
I'm starting to wonder if it's the key point to stability and speed of both Vista and Win7. I'm quite satisfied with Vista x64, though many people hate Vista... most (who I talked to) were running 32bit versions.
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Weirdan wrote:
kaisellgren wrote:It is x64
I'm starting to wonder if it's the key point to stability and speed of both Vista and Win7. I'm quite satisfied with Vista x64, though many people hate Vista... most (who I talked to) were running 32bit versions.
Really? I think it's the opposite situation. Some programs and drivers do not support x64, but everything supports x86. For speed, that might be one reason, though.
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FYI; x86 is bi-arch. It supports both 32bit and 64bit.. just to clarify. In other words, it's not "x64" vs "x86" :)
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Jenk wrote:FYI; x86 is bi-arch. It supports both 32bit and 64bit.. just to clarify. In other words, it's not "x64" vs "x86" :)
Oh yeah, and wasn't it invented by AMD?
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x86 is Intel's specification for that generation of chipset. AMD have their own implementation, but use the same spec.
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I looked into Wikipedia, x86-64 was indeed invented by AMD and x86 on the otherhand, was invented by Intel.

Intel and AMD seem to be in a fight about those specifications right now. Intel thinks that AMD's child company has no rights over Intel's x86.
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I have a sneaking suspicion, that...well...

http://xkcd.com/528/
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patrikG wrote:http://xkcd.com/528/
:lol:
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That's funny. It probably has a deeper meaning than I understand, but funny nonetheless.
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Re: Windows 7 (Poll)

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I like both Windows 7 and Vista. Vista is way better than XP and I think 7 will be even more!
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