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Windows 7 RTM

Incase anyone didn't know Windows 7 has been released to manufacturing.

MSDN had it available from Thursday night (06/08).

It is faster than the beta and the RC. (Which are both faster than Vista) I think the XP faithful will probably stick to the old guns and not like it.

For those of you who have access to the RTM. Installation is a doddle. Have done 4 installs so far. 2 Upgrades and 2 clean installs. Upgrades work with no hassles (1 from Vista Home Premium to 7 HP, other Vista x64 Ultimate to 7 x64 Ultimate) Massive difference in time between clean and upgrade installs. Less than 20 mins on my main pc for clean install. Couple of hours for upgrade.

Only issue I had (till this morning) was the intel chipset driver. Intel don't have a Win 7 driver avail (at time of writing) on their site. ASUS however have a new intel win 7 driver avail and I've used it on my other machines with no issues.

I did like Vista but 7 does seem that bit nicer. So for the sceptics who either wait for SP1 or stick with what they know. This one is deffo worth a look.
 
I'll wait for my retail copy to arrive in October as the RTM doesn't include all the final compatibility updates and drivers that usually ship alongside retail, which I will need for my older laptop and would rather Win7 found what was needed then spend hours searching myself :) .
 
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I'll wait for my retail copy to arrive in October as the RTM doesn't include all the final compatibility updates and drivers that usually ship alongside retail, which I will need for my older laptop and would rather Win7 found what was needed then spend hours searching myself :) .

Mark. It's not been too bad tbh driver-wise. (other than the intel one as M$ drivers never perform as well as the intel chipset driver) I tried Home Premium x86 on an old P4 my dad has. Found everything for it. Mostly everything is on Windows Update anyway. Only annoyance I have is that I had to install my old printer driver from Windows update rather than the disc. (Same with Beta and RC tho) It is a 1991 Panasonic Laser tho so quite old.

What I was really happy about was that ASUS had released all the main drivers for my board and all went in no hassle. Spose it depends on the PC.
 
A 1991 laser, wow must of cost the same as your house to buy back then :)
 
A 1991 laser, wow must of cost the same as your house to buy back then :)

:laugh: And it worked on the Amiga!

(Do remeber buying a RAM board for it and that cost about £200 odd at the time, needed it coz if doing anything with pictures (or AGFAfonts... Digita Wordworth for those sad enough to know what I'm on about) it would only print half a page before running out of memory.)
 
(or AGFAfonts... Digita Wordworth for those sad enough to know what I'm on about) ...

I always used Professional Page, but could only afford a 24-pin dot-matrix (very noisy). I wanted an inkjet but HP Deskjets were around 500-600 pounds at that time IIRC. :(
 
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It was "Wordsworth", as in the writer ( I still have a copy round here somewhere!!).
 
It was "Wordsworth", as in the writer ( I still have a copy round here somewhere!!).

Ehm... it wasn't... ;)

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Had a 24 pin Star LC24/200 Colour before the Laser (KXP-4410). Sold the dot matrix years ago but the Laser still goes strong. If I remember right the Laser cost more than the Amiga did (1200). Took ages to save for it at the time.

Still shows a bit how things were built a tad better back then.
 
Up untill about 3 years back we still had numerous dot matrix printers dotted arround at work, but they went we upgraded the server and droped twinax. They where all still going strong.

I think I may have a panasonic colour dot matrix still arround somewhere, along with a couple of Amiga (500+ and 1200).

Electornic equipment these days isn't helped by lead free solder and the likes of apple turning everything into a consumable.
 
OOps!! found my copy, my bad!!:o
 
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OOps!! found my copy, my bad!!:o

It's quite disconcerting when you are ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN of something in the distant past, then you discover your memory has totally betrayed you. It happens all the time I'm afraid, increasingly so as one gets older.

Take that as a WARNING, all you "young 'uns"!
:nod::laugh:
 
There is a way around that, never agree you're in the wrong even when you clearly are :) . Granted you'll have no friends left but at least you'll feel sane, well.. until you realise you have no friends again of course.
 
But of course you will still have friends, and if those friends say they are not your friends; THEY MUST BE MISTAKEN!!:laugh:

At least I am not as bad as my step father, who still insists that the George Cross is the flag of Wales!!!!
 
Well my monitor just broke so I went hunting for a new Win7 compliant touchscreen display, after all you'd expect a few of them to be on the market ahead of launch. No such luck, not one single Win7 standard monitor exists, so I got a 22" Samsung widescreen and hope to god that it fits in my small desk space (rather have a 20" to be honest but the prices were higher than 22"? Odd).
 
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Well my monitor just broke so I went hunting for a new Win7 compliant touchscreen display, after all you'd expect a few of them to be on the market ahead of launch. No such luck, not one single Win7 standard monitor exists, so I got a 22" Samsung widescreen and hope to god that it fits in my small desk space (rather have a 20" to be honest but the prices were higher than 22"? Odd).

Not if your 22" is a 16:9 display rather than 16:10. The panels are cheaper for 16:9 for some reason.
 
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