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not upgrading for now ill stick to the stable win xp......is this going to be any lighter than the heavy vista?

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I'm sticking with xp as long as i can thank you very much

you guys seen the new ad for mac v pc where the guy is stacking money for advertising and fixing vista problems, lol.. pretty funny

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[QUOTE=kassios;668943]not upgrading for now ill stick to the stable win xp......is this going to be any lighter than the heavy vista?[/QUOTE]

this is supposed to use 50% less memory than Vista, I guess we'll really know when the system is released. But in an effort to make Vista better, SP2 is on its way that's rumored to improve performance even more than SP1.

I'm really looking forward to the next release of Media Center in Windows 7 though. I use Vista ONLY for Media Center in my living room PC and I couldn't live without it anymore. If they improve it even further with Windows 7, I will definitely upgrade.

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[quote=Fez Up;668963]this is supposed to use 50% less memory than Vista, I guess we'll really know when the system is released. But in an effort to make Vista better, SP2 is on its way that's rumored to improve performance even more than SP1.

I'm really looking forward to the next release of Media Center in Windows 7 though. I use Vista ONLY for Media Center in my living room PC and I couldn't live without it anymore. If they improve it even further with Windows 7, I will definitely upgrade.[/quote]

A bit hard to believe that it ll have 50% less memory usage...i will upgrade when Sp2 for the Windows 7 comes out....will def be much more improved ....don't want to risk and buy 17 licenses for my workgroup and openning troubleshooting issues at work at the moment....one thing i like abt vista is that it supports direct x 10!!

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from reports it seems that they are planning to make Windows 7 work with Eee PCs hence it has to be much lighter on the memory usage ...

it looks like Windows 7 is the Vista upgrade or rather how Vista is suppose to be if they had spend more time fine tuning it rather than pushing it out when it wasn't ready

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Guess will have to wait for the users reviews

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I hope this exceeds the expectations, cant wait to change my windows, its been a while, and Vista isnt an option.

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Vista isn't that bad as long as you try and avoid plugging printers / scanners (which have had the worst luck so far). I've been using Vista on my media center PC and my main laptop and I've had ZERO problems with it so far. I even went to the far extent of installing the beta SP1 on my laptop, removing it and re-installing the final release when it was out. Knock on wood, no complaints thus far. Though I have installed and uninstalled boat loads of software and so a re-install IS In the works for sure.

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Why do they persist in this shit candy teletubby interface and colours? Everything feels like it's made for kindergarten kids. It's like Disney designed the UI and Mickey is gonna pop up in a corner any moment. Why can't they make an OS LOOK like an OS? Even with XP, I turned that shit off and went back to the original taskbar look.

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[QUOTE=feather;669506]Why do they persist in this shit candy teletubby interface and colours? Everything feels like it's made for kindergarten kids. It's like Disney designed the UI and Mickey is gonna pop up in a corner any moment. Why can't they make an OS LOOK like an OS? Even with XP, I turned that shit off and went back to the original taskbar look.[/QUOTE]

really ? that beige interface was so dull, I actually like the one they've got on the Windows 7 and Vista (to an extent). The one on XP never did much for me and the ones before were just lifeless.

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never ever, maybe as vm for testing but never again as host :P

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I run Vista Enterprise on my laptop and have had no problems. The only problem I was having was waiting for the latest release of PcAnywhere to work on Vista.

btw...mintywhite has more screenshots.

[url]http://mintywhite.com/tech/windows-7/36-of-the-newest-windows-7-ui-screenshots/[/url]

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[QUOTE=kassios;669319]Guess will have to wait for the users reviews[/QUOTE]

Yup. Microsoft are forever making promises that are never delivered.

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[QUOTE=Fez Up;669690]really ? that beige interface was so dull, I actually like the one they've got on the Windows 7 and Vista (to an extent). The one on XP never did much for me and the ones before were just lifeless.[/QUOTE]

Go find the Royale Noir theme for XP. Best looking XP there is.

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[quote=Fez Up;669690]really ? that beige interface was so dull, I actually like the one they've got on the Windows 7 and Vista (to an extent). The one on XP never did much for me and the ones before were just lifeless.[/quote]

I'm old school. Or I have no imagination :lol:

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[quote=Simon Preston;670175]Go find the Royale Noir theme for XP. Best looking XP there is.[/quote]

nice find! Cool looking theme for windows xp

[URL]http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061029/royale-noir/[/URL]

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looks good. i be getting it

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This is sweet cheers

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Crystal XP on the lappie.

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it's like putting pearls on swine, you can dress up a pig, but it's still a pig.

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[quote=jeffrey collins;671132]it's like putting pearls on swine, you can dress up a pig, but it's still a pig.[/quote]

Mac's are dressed up really well externally and internally though :D

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nice ... probably would be worth the upgrade to this in the future from XP if the final product is not a resource hog

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Can't see that happening tbh. What Microsoft need to do is strip it right down to its core and start from ground up. However, all Microsoft ever do is attach more bits to it and increase levels of bloat. I think the requirements for Vista are nothing short of rediculous. An operating system should be small, compact, streamlined and not a resource hog. I still think needing anything over a 500mhz processor and 128megs for an OS is too much. Problem is CPU's increase with power at such a rate and memory goes up constantly that programmers have been lazy and sloppy with their coding for years. Same for games.

By the time Windows 7 is released, the silly systems we needed to run Vista will now be considered low end so it all won't matter anyway. They'll run Windows 7 just fine. So they'll continue being lazy.

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Actually IIRC when I was more of a PC geek, all (?) of the current Windows OS are based on the NT kernel which IS streamlined and good with resources. It's only when you pile on all the shit that makes the kernel look good and work with the whole world's hardware that you run into problems. For Win 7 to run on mobile computers, it's not so much optimising the kernel but optimising the rest of the shit. You don't need 4GB of ram to perform I/O stuff, you need it for the candy shit.

And if you look at the PC industry, especially graphics engine development, it's not a case of processing power driving the development of UI and games, it's actually the other way round: Game developers and game requirements pushing the development of graphics engine, requiring more processing power and memory. Consequently because a lot of people are building machines to play their games, the 'standard' of what goes into a 'default' machine goes up, which means Windows can run all that Aeroglass shit.

'Cos you CAN run Windows without any of that eyecandy, but who would want to after seeing the display sets with the works? ;):lol:

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The new taskbar and AeroPeek looks good.

[YOUTUBE]ipg6ltIZRw0[/YOUTUBE]

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Wow they're really cranking up the UI improvements in Windows 7.

[URL="http://lifehacker.com/5077379/new-aero-shake-clears-the-windows-7-desktop"]Aero Shake[/URL]

[URL="http://lifehacker.com/5077728/snap-any-window-to-half-the-screen-size-in-windows-7"]Snap[/URL]

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whoaa check that vid

[url]http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/06/video-windows-7-device-stage-on-eee-pc-s101-running-dual-core-a/[/url]

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[QUOTE=heretic;670428]nice find! Cool looking theme for windows xp

[URL]http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061029/royale-noir/[/URL]

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looks a lot like gnome to me...

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Just installed a preview build of Windows 7 onto a VM Machine. Gave it 1GB and it seems quite zippy. Which I'm surprised at. Will see how it handles tho.

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When I saw the videos of the new taskbar and aero peek/shake features, I thought everything felt more linux than Mac.

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Gotta admit, Windows 7 is shaping up to be quite the OS. [URL="http://lifehacker.com/5078756/windows-7s-calculator-bundles-real+life-uses"] Calculator on steroids[/URL]. WTF.

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[quote=ddr;673250]looks a lot like gnome to me...[/quote]

gnome? On what distro?

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There's a lot of confusion over the whole Windows 7 thing. Bascially Windows 2000 was NT5, XP 5.1, Vista 6.0 so Windows 7 should be 7.0.... (well thats just fucking logical really) So I did a winver on it....

...for fucks sake.

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I guess they aren't even beta yet so there maybe a bit until the versions actually get updated?

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Too many cooks ... they can't even get versioning right, no wonder Vista was an epic fail. :lol:

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