RE: windows 7

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have to say that I think Windows 7 is a *CRACKING* product - it runs
really nicely on my little 2Gb RAM / 1.2GHz Cyrix based HP2133 netbook (it
feels much more sprightly than XP) and pretty much flies on my 5 year old
warhorse Sony VAIO VGN-A117S laptop - a 2Gb RAM / 1.7GHz Pentium M. I think
it found all the major drivers for both machines without intervention -
obviously some of the minor ones like custom hotkey drivers needed to be
added manually. I haven't tried it on my desktop machine which currently
runs Vista absolutely perfectly but have no reason to think that it would
do
anything other than behave perfectly on that as it's recent hardware.

*HOPEFULLY* MS are going to be doing a three machine "family
pack" licence
for 7 - there's quite a lot on the 'net about it already and if so then all
three of those machines will get reformatted and a fresh new install - If I
have to buy individual licences then I'll be sticking with XP / XP / Vista
respectively.

Phil


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of pslists
> Sent: 23 August 2009 21:53
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] windows 7
>
> Juan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just downloaded the windows 7 test version from Microsoft
website.
> > Has anyone installed 7 yet?
> > I read conflicting information, one saying I have to backup
> > everything in my PC because 7 will do a clean install over
windows
> > vista.  Other sites states that 7 can be installed over vista and
> > will keep my applications and data.
> > What is the real deal?  I have vista home premium 64b.
> >
> > Thank You!
> >
> > Juan . ///
> >
> I have installed W7 64bit, but didn't try to upgrade my 32 bit Vista.
I
> had previously "upgraded" from Vista to XP on a second disk
in my
> laptop
> as dual boot, and decided to replace the Vista boot with W7. Since
> doing
> it I have rarely used XP and find that nearly everything works OK with
> almost none of the Vista nagging. I like W7 in exactly the same way
> that
> I hated Vista.
>
> Next March I shall have to decide whether to pay for W7, or regress to
> XP :-( Maybe I'll use Ubuntu more.
>
> Pete
>
>
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