Windows 7

Carter

Carter

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Not worth it. I got the 64 bit Ultimate edition for free and its like Vista, slightly faster and a few new features. I dont know what its going to be selling for but I don't think its worth it.

 
Ultimate is $319!

Thank you HouseParty for delivering it for free
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From what I have read it is just a more stable sprused up Vista without out all of the security holes.

All the reviews I have read said it rocks and it worth looking into if Vista hasn't been nice to your or if you have XP.

Max PC usually is pretty tuff on its reviews and they gave it the thumbs up. Just as a comparo it gave Vista the big hell no when it first came out.

 
Win 7 is great, I'm typing from it now. Been using the RC on my desktop and laptop since the beta's launched. I got a student upgrade for like 30 bucks so my laptop has legal key. Don't know what I'm going to do about my desktop
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Win 7 is great, I'm typing from it now. Been using the RC on my desktop and laptop since the beta's launched. I got a student upgrade for like 30 bucks so my laptop has legal key. Don't know what I'm going to do about my desktop
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I have a free 32 bit version too
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I have the beta sitting on top of my computer but I have yet to install it.

I have a partition for it and all! I just need to wipe my inaccessible vista install (I did Vista first and XP second and XP doesn't fix the bootloader
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) off of it and reformat...

 
Nice thing about the new Win 7 is the disk you buy comes with the 32 bit and the 64 bit. Thing that tells it to intall one or the other is you get 2 diffrent Key codes with the product. So you get the choice to swith back in forth on the 32 or 64 bit without haveing to buy 2 serperate install disks.

 
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ouch, a dell! That Woot! sidebar app is enough to make me install Vista/7
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I only pulled a 4.6, not bad for a 4 year old desktop POS.
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Hey, watch what you call these 'ol opties. Actually, I'm thinking of upgrading soon (I can't decide if I want a new GFX card or a new set of core components). I can't decide between i7 and AM3 though.

 
ouch, a dell! That Woot! sidebar app is enough to make me install Vista/7
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Hey, watch what you call these 'ol opties. Actually, I'm thinking of upgrading soon (I can't decide if I want a new GFX card or a new set of core components). I can't decide between i7 and AM3 though.
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i7 ftw.... You can get the Woot bar for Vista too...

 
I only pulled a 4.6, not bad for a 4 year old desktop POS.
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I don't know why I pulled a 5.9. The lowest score was hard drive performance and I have a raid 0 setup using 2 150GB WD Raptors...
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I don't know why I pulled a 5.9. The lowest score was hard drive performance and I have a raid 0 setup using 2 150GB WD Raptors...
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Dang. I get murdered on my score by my processor. Memory isn't that great either. Who cares my rig still does fine. So glad I got one with a PCIE slot instead of AGP.

I got one of those older 74 gig raptor drives, they're nice.

 
i miss windows 3.0
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yes

btw carter, isn't the point of raid, not just speed, but also redundancy. raid0 = loss of all data in the even of a drive failure sure it's fast, but raid1 is almost just as quick and you get redundancy.

 
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btw carter, isn't the point of raid, not just speed, but also redundancy. raid0 = loss of all data in the even of a drive failure sure it's fast, but raid1 is almost just as quick and you get redundancy.
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Raid 1 doesn't provide any performance benefits, it's the same as a single drive write speed. if anything you take a negligible performance hit. All it does is write the same data to 2 drives instead of one. To be redundant and have performance you'd have to run a 0+1.

 
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