enderfall wrote:I'm still using a computer that was built in 2001, lol. There's no way in hell that 7 would be able to run on this junk.
So what?
Our family comp is from '02 and has a 3.0ghz P4 with HT, 512mb of RAM and whatever video card came with it in the box when we bought it and it'll run 7 just fine with all of the extra bull shut off. All you'd need to do at most is upgrade a few parts if you really wanted to speed up the whole rig's general GUI performance, gaming wise it'd be a bad machine for current stuff if it has a slow processor though.
My Consoles:
Genesis - Nomad - SegaCD - GameGear - Sega Saturn - Dreamcast - NES - SNES - N64 - Gamecube - Wii - Playstation - PSone & LCD - PS2 - PS3 - Xbox - 3DS
Niode wrote:Send him a dodgy cheque. Make it out to Scammy McScammerson.
darthmunky wrote:I pre-ordered Windows 7 Home Premium in July since it was like 50$ for a limited time only. I got an email yesterday saying that it has been shipped. Can't wait to install it.
Yeah, if the Home Premium doesn't annoy me with its gimping, I can get a copy through the $30 student deal, if that's still running that is.
I've had Vista Home Premium since SP1 and haven't had any problems with it (aside from a few crappy drivers for 3rd party accessories/software). 7 is basically a refined version of Vista; DirectX 11 is coming to both OS... so unless my hard drive dies or something of that nature requiring a complete re-install I think I'm gonna pass for the time being.
darthmunky wrote:I pre-ordered Windows 7 Home Premium in July since it was like 50$ for a limited time only. I got an email yesterday saying that it has been shipped. Can't wait to install it.
Yeah, if the Home Premium doesn't annoy me with its gimping, I can get a copy through the $30 student deal, if that's still running that is.
Oh cool. TY sir. I still want to play with W7 on my laptop a little first to make sure it can be made non-annoying. DX 11 and such will be nice, but my machine is running just great with XP Pro.
Yeah, I ordered my copy of Windows 7 Professional 64-bit last month for that price.
It won't replace Linux as my main OS, but for 30 bucks you really can't pass that shit up!
One main thing stopping me from going back to windows, and it's kinda sad and pathetic... but virtual desktops (mac users may know them as 'spaces'). I can't live with out them!
But it'll be nice to boot into a 64-bit windows for once. Never owned a 64-bit windows before. I've been playing with the beta release from the web, hope the open release fixed what issues there are with it. One annoying thing is Media Center no longer likes my Hauppauge capture card (Vista and XP Media Center both played nicely with it...), hopefully they fixed this bug (I've read online that it is a known issue).
What surprised me the most about it though was the really fast boot time. Windows has never booted so quickly for me EVER.
Tempting to upgrade, but I won't bother until have to. Everything I want runs on my XP systems, and have a couple of hundred PC games I haven't played yet, so no point getting new ones that need DX11 or whatever, yet. By the time I upgrade, XP will be near to lack of security updates, Windows 7 will have had service pack updates and refined. "If it ain't broke, no need to fix it".
bacteria wrote:Tempting to upgrade, but I won't bother until have to. Everything I want runs on my XP systems, and have a couple of hundred PC games I haven't played yet, so no point getting new ones that need DX11 or whatever, yet. By the time I upgrade, XP will be near to lack of security updates, Windows 7 will have had service pack updates and refined. "If it ain't broke, no need to fix it".
X2. I'll consider upgrading when PC gaming can distinguish itself from the current gen of consoles (besides extravagant graphics)
XP showed a lack of support for my hardware a couple years ago when it couldn't handle the combination of dual GPU's, 2 sound cards, and 3 video capture cards. Now yes that is a lot to be throwing at the poor lil' OS, but it also is a sign of why I left it behind.
Some may ask why in God's name I might even need all that. That's simple...
dual GPU - I have 2 monitors, one is a 30inch display at 2560x1600, and the other a 23 inch display. Two GPUs helps this run magnificently well
3 video capture cards - who doesn't want this? Record 2 TV shows at once and also play some console games through my PC.
2 sound cards - now this I like. It's kind of novel in some respects, but turns out very useful. I have one high quality sound card that pushes my music and movies with support for DTS and Dolby Digital encoding, which feeds to my A/V receiver and amplifier for my sound system (it only handles one out source, it can't output both headphones and optical at the same time). The other sound card acts for all other services. I can easily perform two audio tasks at once independently of each other with out any cross sound. Pulse Audio makes this even cooler (which supports network sound as well for remoting different channels of sound to other sites in the house). And it also allows for a nice independent loop back or audio input. For instance if say I have my video game console hooked up while on skype. Where is my skyp mic going to go if the audio in is taken by my console.
"If it ain't broke, no need to fix it".