Windows 7 at work?

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I've just bought a new PC for work, and surprisingly enough I like the idea that for now W7 would be free...

I'll list the new hardware below, and I know there may be a few bugs, but generally will I be ok with drivers and running web dev software including a bit of photoshop?

This will only be a relatively light-usage machine so not the day to day work churner :)

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think i'd get the 64 bit version.

reckon it'd be ok?
 
As said It's not worth the risk to use in a business environment.

It has some plus points over vista, it also has some negative points, plus many unknowns. w7 for playing about with fine.. for a production environment, it's asking for trouble.

Also web dev on such a low res screen ? Really a bad idea, especially one with a odd res like that. You'll need to preview your sites at different res's etc to ensure they don't look too funkeh.. also once inside a dev environment you'l be scrolling all over the place when menu/toolbars are about.
 
change the drive for a 640gb one
get at least a P35 board (P43 I'd go for)
get a bigger screen
do you need that graphics card? a silent £40 would be better, no?

I use 7 in work, but I generally use remote desktop & firefox for all my work.
 
I'm dual booting Vista and W7 at work for .net development and run sql2008, vs2008, iis7, notepad++ :) all totally fine. Well there was one thing I had to do, give extra rights to the .net temp folder.

I'm going to go W7 at home as well.
 
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bledd. said:
change the drive for a 640gb one
get at least a P35 board (P43 I'd go for)
get a bigger screen
do you need that graphics card? a silent £40 would be better, no?
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so basically:

• spend more money
• spend more money
• spend more money

the graphics card is for the odd lunchtime office lan fight :p and the monitor is not for that PC its a second monitor for my iMac my 22" Samsung 226BW is going on that machine ;)

Why would the P43 be much better in this situation?
 
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We currently have a blanket ban on Windows 7 on our live network.
I've got W7 machines on my test network - I need to make sure all of our applications will play nice and that the machine will be fine on a Win2k3/Win2k8 Domain.

However we refuse to let beta software into our live environments - just too much of a risk.
If it was only the W7 workstation at risk it wouldn't be an issue - however it's potentially the whole network and I wouldn't have thought any IT Manager worth his salt would allow W7 into the live environment.
 
Bledd - had a think and i'm gonna take your advice (apart from the graphics card and HDD - the hard drive is already much bigger than necessary and the graphics card is just a "want" thing :))

New spec (although shouldn't affect my question):

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iirc the X31 boards can have problems with 8gb ram, the P35 and above have no problems.

as for the drive, the 640gb drives (samsung F1 or WD blue) would be a fair bit quicker :)


they all are 'spend more money', but save more in the future :)
 
Fair enough, if there is a specific reason - sometimes I think people automatically assume newer is better. I seem to remember reading that some newer chipset boards perform worse than P31/G31 or even 965 chipset boards for example.
 
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