Download Free Legal Copy of Windows 7 beta ( 32 bit or 64 bit ) tomorrow from MS

What speed/timings

How is it? I have my laptop which is a core 2 duo with a 512 MB DDR3 video card and 4GB of DDR3 RAM so I am debating giving it a shot

Dell Latitude D810
Pentium M 2GHz
1GB RAM

Runs flawlessly. Initially had an issue finding a video card driver that would enable Aero. Dell doesn’t have Vista drivers. Ended up finding a modded ATi Catalyst driver that enabled everything and works great. I have zero issues. No slow downs, no hiccups. It hibernates and sleeps like it should. This thing could pass as an actual release. I’m quite impressed. Note for anyone installing: make sure you apply the update to fix the MP3 bug. Explaination and download of the update here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961367

Do applications install correctly? Like 64bit applications made for vista install and run fine?

Runs fairly slow on my rig, but I probably built this thing 5 years ago and I’ve probably got a lot of fancy stuff turned on, although it looks like 7 appraises your system and I’m thinking it adjusts itself automatically…
http://nyspeed.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=7466&stc=1&d=1231733886

I’m really enjoying that files can be indexed by category rather than just file location.

I.E. You can have a shortcut on your desktop to “Pictures” and you can add various files and folders to the pictures library, so when you double click pictures it opens like a normal folder but it contains all the files/folders you’ve added to the library regardless of location.

There’s a nicely configurable file and/or system image backup utility. :tup:

Hasn’t crashed yet, and it seems to handle frozen/crashed programs without the entire OS taking a shit. :jawdrop:

definitely a good beta

Can’t install logmein. I guess I’ll have to sort out all the RDP port forwarding stuff the old fashioned way.

liked it enough to upgrade vista to the beta, only to find out that a lot of my software isnt exactly compatible yet (should of tested it better in vmware), and went back to vista.

can’t wait for this to come out :tup: I really like that they’re doing virtualization for software compatibility these days

Crap. That is my primary method of getting into my laptop since VNC is slow and remote desktop isn’t available on Home editions of Vista.

Ok then I am going to wait to upgrade my main OS and test it on VMWare. There is a few primary applications that I use daily that keep me from using Linux or any other OS than XP/Vista since they just don’t run as clean.

Any popular ones you find not work correctly?

alcohol 120% was the biggest one (since I bought a license)… I couldn’t go day to day without it. The version of NOD32 I had didn’t like it either

still have it running in a VM though, just wish VMWARE utilized the 3D hardware acceleration a little better

edit:oh, and my XM radio sidebar gadget wouldn’t work correctly

:lol: :crap: I mapped my XP drive in 7, added my XP documents to my 7 documents library. Now I can’t access my documents in XP. :thankyou:

:lol:

Fry keep playing with Windows 7 and post results so we can start a “what not to do thread”

:lol: Will do. :tup:

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hah, you guys would really use a M$ beta on a primary machine?

did it with vista pre-SP1 :stuck_out_tongue:

If the software compatibility was 100%, I would honestly probably use it full time

:tif: Dual booting with a separate partition. It certainly isn’t my primary OS. It never occured to me that I might fuck up my permissions. Oh well, I’ll figure it out when I get home tonight.

Fry best solution…triple boot…install linux with NTFS support…and go between all 3…