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Title: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: kougar24 on September 13, 2009, 07:59:19 PM
Super creepy. Thoughts?
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: hemmy on September 13, 2009, 08:52:39 PM
Its ok IMO
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: steve dave on September 14, 2009, 11:12:56 AM
Pre-ordered the Windows 7 thing a while back.  Completely forgot I did that until this thread. 
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: WillieWannabe on September 14, 2009, 11:34:36 AM
creepy and unique and i kinda giggle at her accent. They have to one up the creepy mac guy.
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: ew2x4 on September 14, 2009, 12:12:07 PM
I thought it was alright. final countdown made it tons better than what it would have been without it.
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: hemmy on September 14, 2009, 12:14:22 PM
Pre-ordered the Windows 7 thing a while back.  Completely forgot I did that until this thread. 

Been running W7 Pro for about a month, since it was released to technet/msdn. Great OS.
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: WillieWannabe on September 14, 2009, 12:16:05 PM
Pre-ordered the Windows 7 thing a while back.  Completely forgot I did that until this thread.  

Been running W7 Pro for about a month, since it was released to technet/msdn. Great OS.

I have W7 Enterprise on my desktop. Absolutely LOVE the bootup and shutdown times. The backgrounds are cool too. Seems to run quite a bit more efficient that Vista. The new Media Player 12 will take some getting used to. Most people prally use Itunes anyway.
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: ew2x4 on September 14, 2009, 12:50:22 PM
Pre-ordered the Windows 7 thing a while back.  Completely forgot I did that until this thread. 

Been running W7 Pro for about a month, since it was released to technet/msdn. Great OS.

Just got it on my work computer after using it on my home laptop since the beta. I love it.
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: kougar24 on September 14, 2009, 08:24:43 PM
In 100 words or less, what's so great about it?
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: hemmy on September 14, 2009, 10:17:48 PM
Pre-ordered the Windows 7 thing a while back.  Completely forgot I did that until this thread.  

Been running W7 Pro for about a month, since it was released to technet/msdn. Great OS.

I have W7 Enterprise on my desktop. Absolutely LOVE the bootup and shutdown times. The backgrounds are cool too. Seems to run quite a bit more efficient that Vista. The new Media Player 12 will take some getting used to. Most people prally use Itunes anyway.

Itunes - along with quicktime is among the worst pieces of software on the face of the earth.
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: hemmy on September 14, 2009, 10:18:41 PM
In 100 words or less, what's so great about it?

Its just amazing dude.

As for running more "effecient" than Vista, it is all relative.  Vista runs amazing on a good computer, but poorly on cheap computers.  W7 runs much better than Vista with cheap crap computers.
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: WillieWannabe on September 14, 2009, 10:22:37 PM
Pre-ordered the Windows 7 thing a while back.  Completely forgot I did that until this thread.  

Been running W7 Pro for about a month, since it was released to technet/msdn. Great OS.

I have W7 Enterprise on my desktop. Absolutely LOVE the bootup and shutdown times. The backgrounds are cool too. Seems to run quite a bit more efficient that Vista. The new Media Player 12 will take some getting used to. Most people prally use Itunes anyway.

Itunes - along with quicktime is among the worst pieces of software on the face of the earth.

I agree. I don't use it and hate to support it at work. But its still popular.
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: kougar24 on September 15, 2009, 12:22:17 AM
In 100 words or less, what's so great about it?

Its just amazing dude.

As for running more "effecient" than Vista, it is all relative.  Vista runs amazing on a good computer, but poorly on cheap computers.  W7 runs much better than Vista with cheap crap computers.

You'll have to do better than that. The gap between "better than Vista" and "great" is wide.
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: hemmy on September 15, 2009, 12:57:41 AM
I know most people on here don't know sh*t about computers, so I will go easy.  What exactly was so terrible about Vista ???
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: kougar24 on September 15, 2009, 06:52:48 PM
I know most people on here don't know sh*t about computers, so I will go easy.  What exactly was so terrible about Vista ???

I majored in Computer Science, fwiw, so no need to dumb it down. I only gave Vista about an hour of my time when it first came out, and that was all I could take of the "Are you sure you want to do what you double-clicked to do?!" and the gruelingly slow speed it ran at.

Plus, the "enhancements" they bragged about, like the graphic alt+tabbing, were hilariously useless.
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: hemmy on September 15, 2009, 09:25:10 PM
You can turn UAC off in 2 seconds, and the Aero flip feature was windows key + tab, alt+tab was improved with better thumbnails.

As for the speed.  Not my fault your computer sucks.  However, the OS is much improved since its early release.  I had tried Vista since the private betas and it had tons of driver problems, but now there is nothing wrong with Vista, not to mention it is more secure than its "competitor" OSX.

Also, superfetch is a great feature if you have the computer to take advantage of it, it makes things much faster than XP.
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: kougar24 on September 16, 2009, 10:23:49 AM
Glad to hear it, but the early release version is the one I tried. My computer wasn't slow, just the OS. It used up so much gd processing even when "idle."
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: ew2x4 on September 16, 2009, 11:26:12 AM
I never had any performance issues with Vista outside of network transfer speeds pre- SP1. I used it on a wide array of decent machines and I never saw a performance dip.

Reasons I like 7- superbar is very intuitive and productive and actually looks good instead of another similar program launcher/manager. Aero actually has quality features now. preinstalled programs are updated to be worth a damn and are actually very good now. Level of customization and tweaks are through the roof. Built in drivers are amazing and surpass any driver any non-windows OS even has access to. With that, the devices panel is really handy. Battery life is improved quite a bit. WDDM 1.1 brings awesome features. XP mode is awesome for using crapty 32 bit only printers on an x64 OS, not to mention what ever legacy propritary software tard companies use. Built in support for virtual drives. better multi-core and SSD support (supposedly).
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: steve dave on September 17, 2009, 12:00:08 PM
Crap, shouldn't have pre-ordered  :frown:

http://gizmodo.com/5361767/students-get-windows-7-home-premium-for-30
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: ew2x4 on September 17, 2009, 12:04:35 PM
Crap, shouldn't have pre-ordered  :frown:

http://gizmodo.com/5361767/students-get-windows-7-home-premium-for-30

I just picked that up as well. $80 for 2 copies of 7 for me so far.
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: steve dave on September 17, 2009, 12:06:13 PM
Crap, shouldn't have pre-ordered  :frown:

http://gizmodo.com/5361767/students-get-windows-7-home-premium-for-30

I just picked that up as well. $80 for 2 copies of 7 for me so far.

I considered getting another for my dated desktop but will prolly just leave it with XP.  Do you think I can return my pre-order for $50 and get this one for $30 instead?  Kind of a hassle for $20 but I like money quite a bit.
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: hemmy on September 17, 2009, 12:11:25 PM
I got 4 free copies already from K-State
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: ew2x4 on September 17, 2009, 02:21:43 PM
sd- no idea on returns. depends where you got it from.

hemmy- did you get it through the msdnaa? if so, you should totally PM me a serial number.
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: hemmy on September 17, 2009, 07:54:14 PM
Using 2 (1 for desktop, 1 for lappy)

Gave 1 away.

Need to keep 4th one just in case ;)
Title: Re: Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown
Post by: hemmy on September 17, 2009, 07:55:25 PM
You guys can sign up for an ACM student subscription www.acm.org

Gets you like 6 serials for $19.99

"Technically" you have to be a student, but I don't think they check.  Might need a .edu email though.