Windows 7 commercial w/ little girl and Final Countdown

[kougar24]

Super creepy. Thoughts?

[hemmy]

Its ok IMO

[steve dave]

Pre-ordered the Windows 7 thing a while back.  Completely forgot I did that until this thread. 

[WillieWannabe]

creepy and unique and i kinda giggle at her accent. They have to one up the creepy mac guy.

[ew2x4]

I thought it was alright. final countdown made it tons better than what it would have been without it.

[hemmy]

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.

[WillieWannabe]

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.

[ew2x4]

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.

[kougar24]

In 100 words or less, what's so great about it?

[hemmy]

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.

[hemmy]

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.

[WillieWannabe]

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.

[kougar24]

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.

[hemmy]

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

[kougar24]

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.

[hemmy]

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.

[kougar24]

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."

[ew2x4]

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).

[steve dave]

Crap, shouldn't have pre-ordered 

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

[ew2x4]

Crap, shouldn't have pre-ordered 

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.

[steve dave]

Crap, shouldn't have pre-ordered 

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.

[hemmy]

I got 4 free copies already from K-State

[ew2x4]

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.

[hemmy]

Using 2 (1 for desktop, 1 for lappy)

Gave 1 away.

Need to keep 4th one just in case

[hemmy]

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.