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Is anyone else going to download Windows 7 on May 5 besides me?  Maybe we should start a W7 group to discuss the good and bad things we encounter with the OS.

It's smart that you installed it on a virtual machine first. I'm going to wait before I make the transition until they come out with a couple of service packs for it. But out of curiosity how does it run? Do ya like it?

Something else: had to download the XP/Vista flash player. Seems there isn’t one for W7 yet. It took a while to download, but it works fine.

Also: the network icon says I’m not connected to the internet. Went to the network page and it also says I’m not connected to the internet. I can contact my other pc’s and ftp server just fine and I can surf the web just fine. Maybe it’s the virtual network set up by the virtual machine. I don’t have any problems with it running XP or Linux.

SOS is now OS boot information.  Love the welcome and shutdown screens.

keep us informed on your 64 experiance.  i'm going to install it in the next few days on a pc i use for trying this out on.  we'll see how it goes

See theres still all kinds of problems.

Does Aero run and whatnot? I bet you had to run the wireless driver in XP compatibility unless they fixed that since build 7000. 

what the specs requirement. is still need 15GBs of hdd like vista?

I have RC1 running on a minimal system (this is a dual boot from an original COMPAQ XP Home system with the 80 GB HD as a second drive just for the Win7 Fresh Install):

Celeron 2.7 GHz single core

768 MB RAM

80 GB HD (currently using 14.1 GB for the OS)

Intel i845 Chipset with DirectX 10.0

What works:

All motherboard functions

All plug in devices (keyboard, mouse, Zune, Sansa Clip, DMC-TZ5 Camera, etc.)

Netgear WG111v3 WiFi dongle (XP Compatiblity Mode driver)

What doesn't work:

Video Adapter recognition of Xerox 19" wvga monitor (XR6-19Dw)

Device Manager reports correct model but the chipset driver won"t

recognize the wide screen resolution capabilities, in other words

circles are ovals.  Interesting note: the Beta Pre-release did install

a current driver for the monitor but the RC1 did not.  This monitor

is no longer supported by the manufacturer and the XP compatibility

mode refuses to install the XP version of the driver.

This system will do well running typical desktop apps such as MS-Office and Web browsing.  It will fail miserably in any multimedia function.

I find it encouraging to see this OS running on such a minimal system.  This could definately be a cure for the Vista WRECK.

I think at some point OS developers need to quit pushing the hardware envelope as much as they do and go back and fix what was broken on recent hardware.  What is wrong with perfecting the OS on what the majority of users (corporate as well as retail) have in place?   For example, how about using intellegent subroutine switching instead of depending on more processor cores. 

Leaner is meaner, meaning more efficient, smaller code base and less consumption of wattage.  Green is the future and that goes for the OS as well as the hardware.  As long as the OS keeps demanding more hardware and thus more consumption of electricity to run it we are going backwards, not forward.

The Netbook rage is scaring MS and they are trying to limit and control the Netbook market place by saying the Netbook version of Win7 will only run 3 apps at a time.  MS needs to wake up and smell the future.  The current business model of mass expansion is not smart and definately not the future.  Microsoft (read that as fellow inhabitants of this planet) needs to quit being share holder motivated (read that as in bed with Intel) and return to their roots of being user motivated (read that as planet and market sustainability).

need to know

http://blogs.howtogeek.com/mysticgeek/2009/01/15/list-of-spyware-protection-software-compatible-with-windows-7/

it looks like it will take a lot of power to run it, but i'll take that for an os that accually works.

I just installed W7 as duel boot on an xp machine.  the pc defaults to W7 on boot.  i thoght it would defaut to XP.  interesting.

I’m currently running W7 with one cpu and 1g of ram. There are three gadgets on the side bar and aero running the desktop. It works alright, but slow. When the release version comes out, duel cpus and 2g of ram is the way to go.

CHayes28 says ...

It's smart that you installed it on a virtual machine first. I'm going to wait before I make the transition until they come out with a couple of service packs for it. But out of curiosity how does it run? Do ya like it?

This is a release client, not the actual release of the OS.  They did this with the beta and rc so we could check it out and Microsoft can see what needs to be tweaked or fixed and whatnot.  That's the whole idea of it all.  And, you only get a year or so to test it out.  So, don't wait too long.  Most of what I have seen about 7 has been pretty positive.

alriiight! finally got around to installing win 7 on my mac mini. so far so good, install was painless, going to use it over the next few days and see how she runs.