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notherdude   12-11-2008 at 04:27:19 PM

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3182

Just one dude's run on a phenom system but it looks encouraging. 7 wins by a significant bit on three out of four.

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pat mcgroin   12-11-2008 at 08:36:17 PM
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Thats pretty interesting.
My only wonder mainly is the boot time and mainly since I dont have a copy yet, what will happen when it gets the full load of features.
As I understand it there will be some features that will only be avaiable under the cloud. Eg Windows mail and a couple of others.
I would however imagine that as with all new op systems there will be other features that aren't currently integrated, and I would have to think that could cause a boot slow down.
I dont put much stock in boot time as it is the overall useability that matters and it seems to be a substantial increase.
One also has to wonder if when the new features are added along with the inevitable security optimizations to the core how big of a difference that could make.

I hope that since they are saying that with the Vista/2008 code being the basis for V7 that SP2 for Vista will bring some of the apparent benifits being realized.

Good find Notherdude.

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amdfangirl   12-13-2008 at 12:35:42 PM
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Cool. If they compared this with XP it would awesome =)

Win 7 is Vista in a gym =)

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Newf   12-15-2008 at 12:42:53 AM
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amdfangirl wrote :

Cool. If they compared this with XP it would awesome =)...


http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3187

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Shadow703793   12-15-2008 at 02:42:53 AM
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Nice. Hopefully it won't be bloated when final RTM comes.

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FatFunkey   12-15-2008 at 03:01:02 AM
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yea ind you this is a beta build with 1/2 of the crap thats supposed to be in the OS not running...


Still holds promis but im not gonna hold my breath

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notherdude   12-16-2008 at 04:23:41 PM
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yea ind you this is a beta build with 1/2 of the crap thats supposed to be in the OS not running...



Half eh? Somehow I think this is a little bit of an exaggeration. There may or may not be somethings not yet running but it is supposedly 'feature complete' at this stage. Time will tell.

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Tindytim   12-22-2008 at 04:26:25 AM
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FatFunkey wrote :

yea ind you this is a beta build with 1/2 of the crap thats supposed to be in the OS not running...


Still holds promis but im not gonna hold my breath


It's not optimized for speed at this point either. So the fact that is does so well incomplete and without polish gives us a good idea on where it will be once they complete the rest of the features, then smooth out the kinks.

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Twist86   12-23-2008 at 05:06:00 PM
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I gotta agree I think after Vista Microsoft felt the love of all their cash flow sinking into a hole so they finally listened to us and thus we will see a fantastic OS this time around.

Can't wait to see 7 on release....will wait for the reviews then though.

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amdfangirl   12-29-2008 at 07:46:04 AM
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I'm gonna wait until at least SP2 (or at least until I can afford it).

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aznguy0028   12-29-2008 at 07:57:56 AM
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awesome. i'm probably gonna switch over after SP1 comes out. vista will have DX11 too so it wont be as great of an incentive to switch over right away for me. after the few ironed out bugs then good chance :P

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Newf   12-30-2008 at 11:55:50 PM
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Awesome. I'm gonna leap over Vista completely and get 7 when it comes out. Speed is good. Service packs are just duct tape in disguise.

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Jake_Barnes   12-31-2008 at 12:59:10 AM
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IIRC, XP + SP1 = USB 2.0

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Newf   12-31-2008 at 01:06:28 AM
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Jake_Barnes wrote :

IIRC, XP + SP1 = USB 2.0

OK, service packs also update the march in technology as time passes. That is different from taking a beta release and using customer complaints to reformulate a band-aid solution.

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amdfangirl   12-31-2008 at 01:55:04 AM
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Service Packs are good. Makes the OS faster, adds features and its free.

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Tindytim   12-31-2008 at 04:35:03 AM
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amdfangirl wrote :

Service Packs are good. Makes the OS faster, adds features and its free.


They can, they could also ruin perfomance by adding useless features.

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amdfangirl   12-31-2008 at 12:33:14 PM
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Which is why you wait for the service pack to mature.

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Newf   12-31-2008 at 11:46:22 PM
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amdfangirl wrote :

Which is why you wait for the service pack to mature.


:??: Huh?

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Tindytim   12-31-2008 at 11:52:42 PM
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Newf wrote :

:??: Huh?


No idea either. Service packs don't mature. They either work, or they don't.

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Physicz   12-31-2008 at 11:59:03 PM
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think amdfangirl means skip the first one wait till the second?

idk thats my interpratation :D

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amdfangirl   01-01-2009 at 12:54:52 AM
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No, I mean like that data corruption fiasco with those service packs and hp computers were the first batch corrupted the AMD systems until it was fixed.

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zodiacfml   01-01-2009 at 05:46:38 AM
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at least performance were not bottom low compared to other OS.
i think the new taskbar will be good in win 7, haven't tried it though.
if i only had an extra drive, i'll try the beta.

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Tindytim   01-01-2009 at 05:57:22 AM
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zodiacfml wrote :

at least performance were not bottom low compared to other OS.
i think the new taskbar will be good in win 7, haven't tried it though.
if i only had an extra drive, i'll try the beta.



You could make a partition.

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