Are you sure that the other .5GB (I'm assuming that you have 4GB) isn't stuff like video memory?

In reply to a post by AnotherExPipex:

Its shyte and I have not even tried it.

Well there's a reasoned criticism!

Methinks we have discovered a living example of Homo Neanderthalensis

Edit:
On second thoughts... probably a follower of Ned Ludd..... Neanderthals were quite bright actually.

Edited by deleted (Fri 23-Oct-09 21:30:27)

In reply to a post by NaNook:

Its shyte and I have not even tried it.

If it is any kind of evolution of Vista they can stick it.

XP for me all the way.

It is far, far better than windows Vista, it may look like vista in many ways, but that is where the similarity ends.

Windows 7 is faster, seems to be more stable, and software I have got that would not work with Vista works with Windows 7. There are some nice features in it, whihc some are useful, others are not so.

I am glad I tried the beta version, it gave me a chance to try the O/S out for a while, so I know if it was worth buying or not. I am now a owner of Windows 7 pro. I am not a lover of Microsoft by any means, but they ahve certainly done well with Windows 7.

I am trying to think of any problems I have with it and at the moment I can't, now that is a novelty.

8 out of 10, based on my laptop. My desktop is yet to see win7 so it has not been tested under my mainstream usage (waiting for office 2010 since I dont want to put older office on and then upgrade it).

I agree with you. Not a great lover of Microsoft but have run the RC on an Acer Netbook. Was impressed and have now upgraded it to the release version.

In reply to a post by AnotherExPipex:

Are you sure that the other .5GB (I'm assuming that you have 4GB) isn't stuff like video memory?

On properties it shows 4GB Installed (2.98 Usable). It isn't shared graphics memory because DxDiag says that's 240MB.

I found a few articles on the web saying that Aero reserves some RAM but I'm using a basic scheme.

I also found this article:

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9...

It's a different laptop but suggests that mine might have the same issue.

It's not a major problem since it's only running my music server. It's not a bad bit of kit for the money - it was about the cheapest laptop I could find a couple of months ago, lol. 4GB RAM, 250GB HDD, dual core something or other CPU. a tad under £300 if I remember correctly. Didn't come with an OS which helped.

In reply to a post by anon1:

I agree with you. Not a great lover of Microsoft but have run the RC on an Acer Netbook. Was impressed and have now upgraded it to the release version.

Got to be done

I am waiting for the new version of Ubuntu and then I will stick that on my laptop. Give me time to sort out the stuff on the laptop I need to take off.

But yes, I am impressed with windows 7, this machine of mine seems to fly. I don't know if it is my imagination or if the released version of windows 7 seems to be better than the RC version I had.

Not got the upgrade but the full version of 64-bit Win7 Pro (it was £90 in a deal at PC World months ago -- one of the few good things they've done!), and so far I love it. Admittedly I've switched from 64-bit WinXP, which had very poor support (especially in terms of drivers), so anything's bound to be an improvement... except Vista, obviously

Only had one problem so far, an inexplicable freeze, but that may have been down to dodgy drivers for my LAN port, as something similar happened in the early days of XP64

I had a lot of freezes but seem to have got fewer as the days go on.

In reply to a post by greyposter:

I had a lot of freezes but seem to have got fewer as the days go on.

Interesting, I just tried the 64 bit version of the RC on Vmware player and suffered freezes. The host was fine (XP) but Win 7 would freeze now and again then continue. Still not sure if it's Vmware or 64 bit version. Using the 32 bit on MS Virtual PC and no freezes. Strange.