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Bond
05-16-2009, 06:12 PM
Anyone install this?

I'm going to upgrade tonight or tomorrow.
jeepnut
05-16-2009, 11:20 PM
Good luck. Hopefully you have a backup incase everything goes south.
Bond
05-16-2009, 11:32 PM
So far so good. I upgraded from XP. This is way better than the few horrible moments I had with Vista.
Bube
05-17-2009, 08:55 AM
I want to try this out so much, but I don't want to be bothered with a fresh XP installation afterward..
gekko
05-17-2009, 01:17 PM
I really don't understand why you're willing to do a clean install, and then another when the retail version comes out, for something that looks, smells, and acts like Vista? Why not just install Vista and when 7 comes out, upgrade? Seems like a lot less work than installing all your old program over and over again.
Bond
05-17-2009, 01:34 PM
Spare computer.
KillerGremlin
05-17-2009, 01:43 PM
I really don't understand why you're willing to do a clean install, and then another when the retail version comes out, for something that looks, smells, and acts like Vista? Why not just install Vista and when 7 comes out, upgrade? Seems like a lot less work than installing all your old program over and over again.

Yeah, I like to avoid work extra myself. I'm just going to wait until the official version of Windows 7 comes out. I haven't had that many problems with Vista. I've been running it for like 2 years without reinstalling, and the only time I ever have issues is when my hardware acts up (my POS videocard has bluescreened me several times).
KillerGremlin
05-17-2009, 01:43 PM
Spare computer.

Hmm, I guess that is acceptable. I was going to suggest setting up a second partition and dual booting but that works too. ;)
Zen
05-17-2009, 01:56 PM
can you get this windows 7 thing on a bootcamp partition?
KillerGremlin
05-17-2009, 02:00 PM
can you get this windows 7 thing on a bootcamp partition?

eww, you Mac users :p

I think you need latest version of bootcamp: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/application_updates/bootcampupdate21forwindowsvista64.html

and here is a guide I found:
http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/01/15/using-boot-camp-to-install-windows-7-on-your-mac-the-complete-walkthrough/

So yeah, it looks like it is possible....but I'd probably just wait till the official release comes out for Windows 7 because that looks like a lot of work.

Edit: here's another linky, http://ourcoffeestops.com/2009/01/guide-windows-7-x64-build-7000-on-a-macbook-pro/
jeepnut
05-17-2009, 06:08 PM
Sort of unrelated, but we should have a bar under our avatar that could display logos for game systems and OS's. Then, you can check a box for each one you have on your profile and the respective logos will show up in the aforementioned bar. That way we can know who has what. Not sure how hard this would be to implement.
KillerGremlin
05-17-2009, 11:37 PM
Sort of unrelated, but we should have a bar under our avatar that could display logos for game systems and OS's. Then, you can check a box for each one you have on your profile and the respective logos will show up in the aforementioned bar. That way we can know who has what. Not sure how hard this would be to implement.

That's actually a really good idea...I know a lot of this forum uses Mac so I get confused when people start talking about PC stuff. I've got machines at my house with Win 2000, XP, Vista, and soon Windows 7 RC1....

Once I find some free time (not this week) and get my PC backed up I'm going to test out RC1...curiosity got the best of me.