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Windows 7 Graphics Performance Preview
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Does W7 Media Centre support H.264 and HD TV?
Might be before that I rekon if it is going Beta now.
Windows 7 is my main OS now, bring on the Beta's as there is a few crashing issues with it atm, especially IE8.
What makes you think they wont? That would be an insanely stupid move and result in it never getting anywhere near as popular as it could get!
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Simple thing to do is have a seperate HDD or partition on the HDD and use that to test it.
It's had DX11 since the prebetas. I posted a thread about the 6956 Build having DX11 in it.
I'm running the Beta 1 now, and I really hope a 64bit version gets leaked soon, I can't cope with only having 3GB of usable RAM out of 8GB, it just doesn't feel the same as 64bit with 8GB of RAM.
It's still very nice though and by no means slow, I'm just used to it being more responsive as I do a lot of heavy multitasking, and leave my PC running for days without rebooting.
last build i used was 6801 and that didnt have dx11 so 6956 ws the first build that included DX11
Hehe the reason Vista sales were poor was there was no real compelling reason to ditch XP! . . . except to play a handful of games which had DX10 and to use more than 3.2GB of memory!
From what I have read it seems quite a lot of games ran slower on Vista which really is not a good selling point!
Apprently Windows 7 has a lot of reworked code therefore accounting for faster boot times and general windows responsiveness, don't know for sure as I haven't used it myself but the Windows 7 developers blog proved an interesting read as they tried to take onboard all the grumbles from thousands of Vista users when working out how to make the new Windows better!
Think I'm gonna sell my unopened Vista X64 SP/1 OEM and jump on the Windows 7 bandwagon!
From what I have read it seems quite a lot of games ran slower on Vista which really is not a good selling point!
Apprently Windows 7 has a lot of reworked code therefore accounting for faster boot times and general windows responsiveness, don't know for sure as I haven't used it myself but the Windows 7 developers blog proved an interesting read as they tried to take onboard all the grumbles from thousands of Vista users when working out how to make the new Windows better!
Think I'm gonna sell my unopened Vista X64 SP/1 OEM and jump on the Windows 7 bandwagon!
No-one knows
There are small memory benefits - people with low spec systems (i.e. netbooks) might notice a small benefit as 32-bit programs and OS take up a bit less RAM than 64-bit ones.
I've been trying out build 6801 of 7, and while this may have changed in the beta, the gadgets do not stay where you put them, at least not when using multiple monitors. I switch between using two and three monitors, and enabling/disabling the third can cause weird things to happen to the gadgets, normally about half move to a different screen. Besides, I actually preferred having all my gadgets on the sidebar, although that may change with the beta version due to presumably improved desktop preview.
Does Windows 7 act differently if it notices there is a SSD installed? I haven't noticed any difference on my SSD with build 6801. I ask because things like automatic defragmentation, which seems to be the default, are worse than pointless on SSDs.
Drivers and software - unless there is buggy programming to do with OS detection, if it works on Vista, it'll work on 7. That was one of the main design requirements when they were working on it.
Having used the new taskbar for a while now, I actually prefer it to having text. Because I'm normally using lots of apps (I have 9 open at the moment, for example), things are usually grouped on the taskbar anyway, and having the buttons with window preview just works. With Vista and XP, it gives you a list of programs to choose which one you want. With 7, you hover over the button and it pops up large thumbnail previews of all the windows of that application; its far easier to see which you want. Plus you can close them with a single click.
Only thing I noticed on 6801 was occasionally the icons get muddled up so what you think is Firefox is actually Excel, or something
Think I'm gonna sell my unopened Vista X64 SP/1 OEM and jump on the Windows 7 bandwagon!
Better sell it quick, as soon as anyone hears 7's en route the value of vista's gonna plummet faster than the pound
Especially as I read somewhere (not officially confirmed) that it may be ready as soon as June this year. Following the Vista fiasco they won't release it before it's ready but the sooner they get it out the sooner netbooks stop getting sold with XP!
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I really wish they would ditch the 32 bit version as well, the N270 Atom doesn not have EMT64
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Vista's launch was god awful for a multitude of reasons.
I'm talking about drivers, the UAC, all the different things going on.
The entire concept is more matured with Windows 7, and as a result will be successful.
The market is ready for it.
I'm talking about drivers, the UAC, all the different things going on.
The entire concept is more matured with Windows 7, and as a result will be successful.
The market is ready for it.
The main thing that is going in Windows 7 favour is that Vista drivers will work on it as of Vista SP1 they use the same driver model/framework.
Personnally I see Windows 7 as an improved Vista that has been slightly streamlined and extra functionality patched in. Not that this is a bad thing, Vista is the most stable Windows OS and best one to use since Windows 2000 Pro. As much as I liked XP, I've always thought that Win2k pro was far more stable. However once decent Vista 64-bit drivers were released I've had virtually no issues with the OS since I installed it over 1.5 years ago. (creative being the exception, but then their sound drivers have given me issues on all versions of Windows I've used)
I must say I'm quite looking forward to Windows 7 as I find Vista to be a very good and reliable OS as Win7 is an evolution of Vista.
Personnally I see Windows 7 as an improved Vista that has been slightly streamlined and extra functionality patched in. Not that this is a bad thing, Vista is the most stable Windows OS and best one to use since Windows 2000 Pro. As much as I liked XP, I've always thought that Win2k pro was far more stable. However once decent Vista 64-bit drivers were released I've had virtually no issues with the OS since I installed it over 1.5 years ago. (creative being the exception, but then their sound drivers have given me issues on all versions of Windows I've used)
I must say I'm quite looking forward to Windows 7 as I find Vista to be a very good and reliable OS as Win7 is an evolution of Vista.
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I really wish they would ditch the 32 bit version as well, the N270 Atom doesn not have EMT64
I too would also like to see 32bit go down the drain. I think its to do with lack of compatibility with software and drivers. Yeah all mainstream programs usually have a 64bit version but the smaller programs that people use don't usually have 64bit versions. I think if Microsoft released just a 64bit OS it would force all these programmers to switch all there programs to a 64bit architecture instead of the outdated 32bit.
Vista = the new millennium, I'm not the expert some of you guys are but that was certainly the impression I got when I first switched. In fact for various reasons I'm still running a dual boot with XP.
Another similarity is in the name, Millenium/Vista - both conjure images of freshness and beauty. Both were a tad deceptive, both names are forgettable. You just know that 'Windows 7' sort of has to be pretty good because MS can't shake off the whole 7x series if it isnt!
Either way this is quite possibly MS's last product that is guarenteed mainstream adoption if its not up to scratch. Two big flops in a row could cause the masses to question if the modern computer really needs MS software and look at the alternatives.
But from the OP it looks like all is going rather well. And Vista wasn't all bad all the time so at least something worth building on!
Another similarity is in the name, Millenium/Vista - both conjure images of freshness and beauty. Both were a tad deceptive, both names are forgettable. You just know that 'Windows 7' sort of has to be pretty good because MS can't shake off the whole 7x series if it isnt!
Either way this is quite possibly MS's last product that is guarenteed mainstream adoption if its not up to scratch. Two big flops in a row could cause the masses to question if the modern computer really needs MS software and look at the alternatives.
But from the OP it looks like all is going rather well. And Vista wasn't all bad all the time so at least something worth building on!
The "Vista" moniker may not have been coined until then, but development was started a lot earlier, back when the beta versions were simply known as Longhorn (much like beta versions of XP were called Whistler). IIRC those codenames were eventually used for the server OS, but originally it applied to the desktop development too.