BustedS13

fact of the matter: 99% of the time, the average user won't have an issue.

OH NOOOO I'M RUNNIN XP WITHOUT WGA, NO UPDATES F'MEEEEE, I'M WORKIN' WITHOUT A SAFETY NET, OHH NOOOOOO

but yeah, i may actually buy 7. if you's a PC throw ya fist in the air, brah

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HyperTek

ahhhhh nooooo!!!! this is becoming a anti-vista/7 thread lol
do u guys still wanna see those "Im a mac" commercials? hahah

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Future240

Just ordered it. I wwas going to shoot for vista 64 bit but W7 64 bit should be a better alternative.

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Tearlessj

I've tried them all. If your not on W7 your missing out. The only haters are people who haven't actually used it.

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aNskY

Too lazy? Try, i almost blew up my friend's MKIV Supra after his aem erroneously tried to tune ITSELF on compatibility mode in vista (when we could get it to connect at all).

Been on my hacked XP Pro "downgrade" ever since. No need to upgrade imo, i will stick with what i KNOW works

irax

so wait.. can windows 7 let me play duke nukem 3D? or anything dos? how about quake in software mode?

doesn't look like its going to offer anything i need. vista runs everything i want just fine.

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ixfxi

you are correct, compatability mode does not always work with all situations. ive tried to run things under XP mode since i run server OS and it doesnt always apply.

i mean there are always ways to get things done, but its not always as simple as right clicking and enabiling that little option.



haha very true, many times patches are not necessary. not saying that they are useless, but in reality if youre running a home PC or even a small business PC setup, the updates are not *that* important. remember, we're talking about small time scale here, you're not running a fucking Citibank datacenter or something for the government.

I can see it now, someone is trying to exploit my machine so they can gain access to my porn and access my credit card debt. OH NO....!

aNskY

im running xp without wga and i get updates just fine

BustedS13

i'm really not following this one. can windows 7 not play 15 year old fps's? what is the meaning of this?

i can only assume this was some sort of sick burn post or something, but i'm just going to take it seriously and say dual boot xp and 7. or 98 and 7, if you're a boss.

exactly. fact of the matter is nobody wants what's on your computer, so there's your protection right there.

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S14DB

Home is $49
Pro is $99
Ultimate is $219

Snow Leopard is $29

The problem is that game systems use funny math when talking about bit addressing. Cram 8 8bit processors in a box and then you got a 64 bit machine right? The worst was Jaguars Tom and Jerry bullshit. Games still looked like ass and the controller sucked balls. Still remember the one kid in school talking that thing up for months before he got it. Day after people were loling at him how bad it was. He stuck by it and got every game for it out of the bargain bin when it went under.
Still a lot of people running IA-32 CoreDuo processors that think they are 64bit.

Drivers for the 64 bit windows(XP/Vista) are always sketchy. It doesn't use full 64bit addressing for most things. Windows7 is supposed to support both 32 and 64bit in the same box. The 64bit install is 4gb bigger. Hopefully driver support will be a lot better then current 64bit.

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hopeless.s13

why do you feel that you gotta hate on my zune bro? the thing is indestructible. i have had it for 3 years, paid 99 bucks NEW from newegg (30 gig) and it sits in my car everyday through CA desert heat and cold. it has never failed me once. im not obsessed about it but i can at least say from experience that its a reliable little brick of musical genius (and it has a pretty good screen too)

so dont be a hater. and a foolish one at that.

BustedS13

^i had a zune 30, too. at the time, the hardware was NICE. the interface was much cooler than the ipod.
unfortunately, the Zune software at the time was fucking SHIT. so i sold it and bought a 5.5 video 80g iPod, and then eventually upgraded to a 160gb Classic, which i still have. Apple's software isn't MUCH better, but it's simple in nature and works.

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CuriouslyJumping

Vista is just bad to me. I dont mind trying out 7.

hopeless.s13

i agree, the software they made was so bad... the install failed probably 3 times before it worked on my computer, and for no reason. but they have released new software since then and updated everything since then and its actually a lot better now.
i wouldnt mind having an 80gig ipod but theyre so expensive haha im too much of a jew for that. the ipod touch is pretty slick...
and besides, my zune still works for now, so until it breaks ill be good

ixfxi

reliable brick of musical genius? dude, back in `99 i bought a 10gb hard drive based mp3 player made by Compaq, check it out:
IGN: PJB 100-30GB Preview

A couple years later, I upgraded it to 40gb.. this is in 2001!!! Its 2009 now, I still have this fucking player and it still works. I have over 70gb of music, obviously I've out grown the PJB's hard drive but shit, I dont really need to carry that much music around anyway.


I dont really have a beef with the zune, just find it ironic that people talk smack about it because the ipod is such a fucking craptastic ghey standard. in the old days, you had a tape or cd player.. no one cared what fucking brand it was. nowadays people make fun of you for having a zune because you should have the newest, latest, ipod macromini... its all hype & bullshit


the funny thing is that this mp3 player i have was made ages ago, still works, and the zune offers no incentive that i would care about. theres nothing cutting edge about it.

hopeless.s13

ya i had a 40gb creative jukebox zen xtra (whoever came up with that name) before my zune... i had it for a pretty long time too, but it got stolen out of my brother's car one time when he borrowed it... it sucked

but youre definitely right about the ipods out there. its pretty much a fad. i admit they are cool and all, and really easy to use, but all of my friends get them and about a year later BAM the ipod dies. what do they do? go out and buy a new one. apple has done a good job with marketing that thing

BustedS13

god i love reading old tech articles.
that wasn't true in my day. you either had a discman, or you had some laughable cd player. i remember being the first one to have 10 second ESP. it was like being their god.

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0100

discman????

shit in my day you had this, playing your underground mix tape.



damn this thread went off a cliff...

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svensko

Psst. It's just vista with some crap removed.

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Om1kron

ultimate seemed like a waste of money, so I bought the profressional upgrade for 99 bucks. My usb ports have been trippin with windows x64 so it's time to upgrade. I'll need new hard drives too. I've been running these 36 gig raptors in raid 0 for the past 4 years and I think it's time to finally retire them and my 250gig caviar and fill this bitch up with 1tb drives.

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murda-c

What makes you so special that nobody will steal your info or install malicious software on your computer, even though it happens to thousands of other computers?

It's not like these updates are going to hurt your computer, and you don't even need geniune windows to get security updates.

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Future240

Bump for Windows 7 being released to day. I cannot find my confirmation emails, or anything. Have yall received any word from Microsoft about it?

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bigOdom1

im supposed to get some sort of free upgrade for a new laptop, but they never gave a date just sometime after today. may not be til after christmas, i dont know. but i have not gotten anything.

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my car domain

that good review thread

aznpoopy

i did the student $30 preorder and got the download link and product key sent to my edu e-mail today.

kyoru

Been running windows 7 for awhile as well I like it quite a bit but osx seems to have a better work flow for me.

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Future240

I did mine through a regular pre-order and as of right now nothing yet.

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2Slow40

Same here. No email yet.

Future240

That actually makes me feel better. I will check the mail around 5 to
see if anything popped up.

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ZenkiKid

win741.com

if you have a valid college email account you can get 7 for cheap. I bought pro for 45 WITH dvd backup disk. and download link.

Mita Orange

its $30 for your choice of either home premium or pro from their student discount deal. Windows 7 US Online Store - Student Registration