Windows 7 or XP

I got bored and booted back into Vista

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Back into Windows 7

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I'd say some comment on here is sig worthy
 
Had my doubts when I installed Windows 7 a few weeks ago on my main PC at home, but I'm converted now, and wouldn't go back to Windows XP now.
 
If your worried about your e-peen being 2 -3 fps shorter then by all means go XP. I myself prefer Win7 over XP.
 
Fire Wizard said:
Windows 7 x64 will run absolutely fine on 2GB of RAM.
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From years of experience in support and personal usage - I personally would never recommend 2GB of ram for a modern OS

Win7 may be slimmed down from Vista and run faster, but with a game running or few general apps I would expect the swap file to be thrashed with that low amount of ram - and for the price now adays I cant see why anyone wouldnt get 4GB

Not only that - unless everyone is very keen and reinstalls every 6 months or so, all Windows installations get significantly slower over time and 4GB should also assist in making this less noticable;)

Just my 2p's worth
 
MikeHunt79 said:
Ok, I hold my hands up, Vista is the best OS ever, I just happen to have an irrational hate of it. :p :o I apologise for my childishness, and I've changed my sig back so something less silly. :)
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No hard feelings :). I was simply basing my personal experience of using both OS'. I do not boot in Vista at all now and do love using W7. I certainly hope they do relase better drivers and possible gaming performance fixes but as other have said, I have not really noticed the loss of fps.

I was perhaps being a little flipant saying XP over W7 as the OS is very good indeed. But purely from a performance POV XP would be slightly better in gaming, though possibly not for long. It certainly is early days yet and I wont make the mistake of hating the OS jsut because it not quite fully mature yet. Like I did with Vista at first. The problems I had with it were real show stoppers. Like corrupting archives, games corrupting during install. Constant "Display has recovered, blah blah". Since before SP1 really, Vista has been OK (ish). You do sometimes get the odd inexplicable problem with it but from an Admin POV, I prefer working on Vista machines than XP ones. I dont have to log the user out to perform admin duties on Vista (or W7) but do with XP, say even to install something as minor as a font.
 
_Jimlad_ said:
i find it strange that anyone formatting or buying a new pc would consider placing windows xp (as great as it is) on in a machine that is happy running windows7, its proved to be stable and like it or not its the future.

with your spec i would cram some more ram in and get windows7 on
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How is Windows 7 in terms of backwards compatibility with older software, especially games. If there is even the slightest sniff of problems in this area then anyone with a decent games collection isn't going to much interested in the latest greatest newest best future proof OS.

I would say put both OS on in any case in some kind of dual boot set up.
 
im thinking of trying W7 with dual booting XP, is the procedure just the same as any oither os ?

are all you guys running the W7 trial at the moment ? ;)
 
I am still on xp because broadcast studio pro doesn't work on vista or win7 it's horses for courses if there's stuff you use often or every day that doesn't work on 64 bit then....
 
Margaret said:
That's dumb, I ran Vista with 2Gb for a good few months and it was fine, very snappy compared to XP.

I would assume 7 to be just as good.
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Im just going off years of experience - and using multiple applications / windows at one time.

Vista is bloated anyway which is why its better to have more ram in the 1st place, Windows 7 has been improved in this regard but I would still say 2GB is a bare minimum

Users also tend to start off with really basic requirements and over the use of the PC start to use it for more varied stuff, and get disappointed when a 6 month old pc or something cant cope with what they need
 
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On a new machine I'd definitely go for W7. I installed the freely available RC a while ago on both my laptop and my desktop, with the intention of just playing around with it to see what it was like. Suffice to say, W7 has now become my default OS on both machines. I use them for a combination of programming, gaming, media (outputting to HD TV), and have very few complaints. I'll definitely view it as an essential requirement when I move to 4Gb on a new system.
 
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