Posted on 02/02/2009 9:29:54 AM PST by smokingfrog
I have an older Athalon 1.73 with 1 gig of memory. Would 7 work work on it?
If you can make a 25 - 30 GB partition on your current hard drive you could experiment with Windows 7 there and see how it does for you.
May I ask how long your Windows 7 beta license is for? And, do you prefer 7 over XP-pro, which is the OS that I mostly use along with Fedora?
Yes, I like Windows 7 every bit as much as I do XP Pro which I've used extensively since early 2002. I don't have any problems finding my way around it, the file structure organization is slightly different, and so far my applications have all behaved perfectly well. Your experience with XP would serve you well with Windows 7 in terms of working with system tools and controls, etc. I certainly think a new computer user, someone new to Windows, would have a much easier time becoming productive with this new operating system.
One chore I never look forward to when setting up a new computer(s) is networking. In this case settings, printers, folder and file permissions, etc. all transferred effortlessly. It was almost too easy as if it could get you into trouble.
The user interface is pretty slick looking. Though I'm a Firefox diehard, the IE8 beta does a lot of smart things that I've been waiting for too.
It's hard not to hate Microsoft, but in this product they seem to have done pretty darn well. For a beta release it appears very stable, hasn't crashed yet, and the bugs I have noted are minor things that don't have any effect on the work I'm trying to do.
If you have an AMD processor in your computer, then that might be why Windows XP SP 3 doesn’t complete. Check the manufacturer’s website for the fix. Doe a search on FR too, as the fix was posted in on a thread here too.
I feel like I’ve stepped back in time every time I leave my home Mac based business and go to my other job and have to work on Windows machines.
Their biggest problem with Office was that it worked just fine, so there wasn't any real need to upgrade. Soooooo, all of a sudden, they decide they need to zip files when they save them, and anybody who doesn't buy the latest version of Office has to download an update (no automatic update patches to make Office 2003 open Office 2007 files.) If you decide to save your Office 2007 files as Office 2003 by default, well, that's buried about three menus down, then every time you try to save a file you get a compatibility warning, then if you EVER save a file as an Office 2007 file, it unchecks your "Save as Office 2003 document choice and defaults back to 2007. These aren't just programming glitches, it's MS making NOT upgrading as big a pain in the rear as they can.
>> I’ve installed the Windows 7 beta over XP and Vista on every box in the house
That’s an ambitious move for beta software.
That puts it well ahead of the OS performance of the Vista Business box on which I am writing this. This month-old computer has crashed three times today alone, not with the old fashioned well behaved XP Pro-style error messages in a window, but with system freezes requiring hard reboots.
Vista looked good on paper, but I now waste an appalling amount of time dealing with one Vista bug after another. I paid for this???
The Windows 7 beta cannot possibly be less reliable than Vista.
Well I didn't make the move to Windows 7 the first day, but felt confident enough after less than a week to take the plunge.
If I didn't have good backup practices I wouldn't have dared. Plus, though labeled a beta release this software feels closer to release candidate #1 given the (relative) absence of bugs and glitches. I'm not running into the sorts of issues I regularly encountered with other beta software releases. Microsoft seems to be actively aiming to avoid the mistakes they made with previous OS debuts.
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