I've been running the Beta for Win7 for a couple of weeks on a four year old machine (HP Pavillion a720n- Athalon XP 2.2ghz). XP was due for a reinstall so I thought that I would play around with Win7.
It runs OK except when iTunes gets going but that was how iTunes ran in XP on that machine. On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Jeff Wright <jswri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 1) You don't want Win7 right now. It will be a year or two before M$ > > works out the defects. Meanwhile you will you will be using XP, a > > version that has been worked on long enough to have fixed many of the > > worse defects. > > I can hear Tom now at home now, whimpering like Dr. Smith from "Lost in > Space," "Oh, Will, the pain, the pain. I simply can't bear to try it...." > > MS is actually ahead of the game in driver support; they've insisted that > there won't be the problem as there was with Vista and so far, that claim > has been delivered. > > When I installed the beta on a new laptop at work, Dell had no video > drivers > on their site that would install. All would bork out claiming the OS wasn't > supported, even for Vista drivers. Instead, I used the Windows update > driver function and had it pull down drivers from the MS database. Viola! > Video drivers that worked. In fact, *all* of the other drivers were native > to the OS. > > Other than that, my Win7 experience has been almost boring in that regard; > no problems at all. > > So, again, I ask, who should you listen to? Someone like Tom who's never > even touched Windows 7 or from people who have actual experience installing > and using it? (And no, you don't *have* to upgrade.) > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
