Posted by OasisBU:

Anyone here install this yet? I just put it on a 2005 Dell Inspiron 6000, Pentium M 2.0 GHz, 2 Gigs of RAM, 128 Meg ATi X300 video card and it runs just as good as XP. Vista wouldn't install on my computer so I stuck with XP but after hearing good things about 7 I decided to take the plunge and it is pretty awesome. Tons of new features to customize with and some pretty cool keyboard shortcuts.

I know a lot of it pulls from Vista but there are definitely some new things on 7 that are awesome.

this is the first MS OS that I have gotten excited about since Windows95. Read some good things about it but haven't installed yet.

i'm running windows 7 rc on 2 machines. I have been running it since the public beta. there is very little difference between the public beta and the release candidate. its lean and the XPM makes the upgrade worthwhile for enterprise users.

martin, you should definitely download a copy before june 30th because it will not be free after.

Posted by Silverfuel:

Posted by orangeblobman:

no way man, i am an ubuntu man. i havent used windows at all since installing ubuntu.

ubuntu is good stuff. give fedora a shot if you have a spare machine lying around.
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/

ubuntu is my first experience with linux, how is fedora? is it cooler or what?

Posted by Silverfuel:

i'm running windows 7 rc on 2 machines. I have been running it since the public beta. there is very little difference between the public beta and the release candidate. its lean and the XPM makes the upgrade worthwhile for enterprise users.

martin, you should definitely download a copy before june 30th because it will not be free after.

any idea where u can dl a free copy of 7 Silver?

I am not a microsoft fan. I rarely use windows machines outside of work but I have to say they did a great job with Windows 7. Its a really good Operating System and might actually be faster than -my favorite- Fedora in a lot of ways! And its not RTM yet!

Windows Vista sys req:
1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 GB of system memory
40 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
Support for DirectX 9 graphics

Windows 7 minimum recommended hardware:
Processor speed 1 GHz processor (32- or 64-bit)
Memory (RAM) 1 GB of RAM (32-bit); 2 GB of RAM (64-bit)
Graphics card Support for DirectX 9 graphics Device with 128MB of memory (for Aero)
HDD free space 16 GB of available disk space (32-bit); 20 GB of available disk space (64-bit)
Optical drive DVD-R/W

2 years after building an extremely resource intensive OS, driving requirements through the roof they are coming out with a much leaner version of Windows that will require less resources! They did us a favor! They drove down the price of RAM, SSD's and High end Video cards for regular users!

From Paul Thurrotts WIndows 7 review conclusion:
http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/win7_rc.asp

With the Windows 7 RC now broadly available to anyone who wants it, there's been nothing. Nothing major, certainly. And that verifies my opinion of this thing, which is of course not just framed by my experience with this one build but rather with my ongoing experiences, over several months, with numerous pre-RC builds as well as the final RC build. Windows 7, in its current state, is so stable, so mature, and so usable that its almost unbelievable. You know, if I hadn't seen it for myself.

I've been using Windows 7 as my primary OS since last year and as my sole production OS since the RC hit. (At which time I upgraded my remaining XP and Vista machines to the Windows 7 RC build.) I have experienced no major hiccups during this time at all. And in treating Windows 7 as final code, I've found that it has risen to the challenge by responding like final code. It is now, in pre-release form, in roughly the same shape as is Windows Vista with SP2. And that OS first shipped over two and a half years ago. This deserves some mention and some accolades.