Mac desktop. Supposedly there are new models coming out sometime soon,
but nothing rumored about the still vaporware models seemed that
significant to me, although they will be to others, I suspect, who are
more into computer games and heavy duty graphics and math processing.

Also snagged a beta of Windows 7, which just about anyone can do via
Microsoft's open beta for at least the short term, and burned it onto a
DVD. It'll be the "alternatve" OS on the new Mac. I run Vista as the
alternative on my Macbook Pro, works fine.

And my old desktop machine is now updated and "ready" to be "server-ized."

"HK" wrote in message
...
Mac desktop. Supposedly there are new models coming out sometime soon, but
nothing rumored about the still vaporware models seemed that significant
to me, although they will be to others, I suspect, who are more into
computer games and heavy duty graphics and math processing.

Also snagged a beta of Windows 7, which just about anyone can do via
Microsoft's open beta for at least the short term, and burned it onto a
DVD. It'll be the "alternatve" OS on the new Mac. I run Vista as the
alternative on my Macbook Pro, works fine.

And my old desktop machine is now updated and "ready" to be "server-ized."


Is Windows 7 designed to be an upgrade from Vista, or is it strictly a
completely new OS install?

Eisboch

Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
...
Mac desktop. Supposedly there are new models coming out sometime soon,
but nothing rumored about the still vaporware models seemed that
significant to me, although they will be to others, I suspect, who are
more into computer games and heavy duty graphics and math processing.

Also snagged a beta of Windows 7, which just about anyone can do via
Microsoft's open beta for at least the short term, and burned it onto
a DVD. It'll be the "alternatve" OS on the new Mac. I run Vista as the
alternative on my Macbook Pro, works fine.

And my old desktop machine is now updated and "ready" to be
"server-ized."


Is Windows 7 designed to be an upgrade from Vista, or is it strictly a
completely new OS install?

Eisboch


Dunno. Haven't even looked at the MS web page on it yet. My guess is
that it'll upgrade a VISTA or it'll do a fresh install.

"HK" wrote in message
...
Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
...
Mac desktop. Supposedly there are new models coming out sometime soon,
but nothing rumored about the still vaporware models seemed that
significant to me, although they will be to others, I suspect, who are
more into computer games and heavy duty graphics and math processing.

Also snagged a beta of Windows 7, which just about anyone can do via
Microsoft's open beta for at least the short term, and burned it onto a
DVD. It'll be the "alternatve" OS on the new Mac. I run Vista as the
alternative on my Macbook Pro, works fine.

And my old desktop machine is now updated and "ready" to be
"server-ized."


Is Windows 7 designed to be an upgrade from Vista, or is it strictly a
completely new OS install?

Eisboch


Dunno. Haven't even looked at the MS web page on it yet. My guess is that
it'll upgrade a VISTA or it'll do a fresh install.


It's funny. Due to all the horror stories I had heard about Vista, I was
very hesitant to go with it on this new computer. I tried to pay attention
to recommendations regarding RAM, etc. and made sure it had 4GB and was the
64 bit version.

So far, I haven't had a single serious hiccup. In fact, only once did a
program (I think it was InfanView) temporarily "lock up" and deliver a
"program is not responding" message, but as I was reading it, it
automatically cleared itself and continued running. That's the only time
I've seen any sort of glitch and it went away by itself.

Eisboch

Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
...
Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
...
Mac desktop. Supposedly there are new models coming out sometime
soon, but nothing rumored about the still vaporware models seemed
that significant to me, although they will be to others, I suspect,
who are more into computer games and heavy duty graphics and math
processing.

Also snagged a beta of Windows 7, which just about anyone can do via
Microsoft's open beta for at least the short term, and burned it
onto a DVD. It'll be the "alternatve" OS on the new Mac. I run Vista
as the alternative on my Macbook Pro, works fine.

And my old desktop machine is now updated and "ready" to be
"server-ized."


Is Windows 7 designed to be an upgrade from Vista, or is it strictly
a completely new OS install?

Eisboch


Dunno. Haven't even looked at the MS web page on it yet. My guess is
that it'll upgrade a VISTA or it'll do a fresh install.


It's funny. Due to all the horror stories I had heard about Vista, I
was very hesitant to go with it on this new computer. I tried to pay
attention to recommendations regarding RAM, etc. and made sure it had
4GB and was the 64 bit version.

So far, I haven't had a single serious hiccup. In fact, only once did a
program (I think it was InfanView) temporarily "lock up" and deliver a
"program is not responding" message, but as I was reading it, it
automatically cleared itself and continued running. That's the only
time I've seen any sort of glitch and it went away by itself.

Eisboch


I've never had any serious VISTA problems, and I was there at the
beginning.

"HK" wrote in message
...
Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
...
Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
...
Mac desktop. Supposedly there are new models coming out sometime soon,
but nothing rumored about the still vaporware models seemed that
significant to me, although they will be to others, I suspect, who are
more into computer games and heavy duty graphics and math processing.

Also snagged a beta of Windows 7, which just about anyone can do via
Microsoft's open beta for at least the short term, and burned it onto
a DVD. It'll be the "alternatve" OS on the new Mac. I run Vista as the
alternative on my Macbook Pro, works fine.

And my old desktop machine is now updated and "ready" to be
"server-ized."


Is Windows 7 designed to be an upgrade from Vista, or is it strictly a
completely new OS install?

Eisboch


Dunno. Haven't even looked at the MS web page on it yet. My guess is
that it'll upgrade a VISTA or it'll do a fresh install.


It's funny. Due to all the horror stories I had heard about Vista, I was
very hesitant to go with it on this new computer. I tried to pay
attention to recommendations regarding RAM, etc. and made sure it had 4GB
and was the 64 bit version.

So far, I haven't had a single serious hiccup. In fact, only once did a
program (I think it was InfanView) temporarily "lock up" and deliver a
"program is not responding" message, but as I was reading it, it
automatically cleared itself and continued running. That's the only
time I've seen any sort of glitch and it went away by itself.

Eisboch


I've never had any serious VISTA problems, and I was there at the
beginning.

Actually, for light use, Vista is OK. Have it on one of my PCs.

Most of the bad press on Vista relates to performance. In motor terms Vista
us a 4 cyl that gets 2 mpg. You can put a lot of CPU/system to it and it
performs like a slug. While if you are just doing surfing or email, you
would never know the difference, try a large file transfer disk to disk or
network to/from a disk and compare to a Mac, Linux or even XP. You will
find Vista is slow like pig.

HK wrote:
Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
...
Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
...
Mac desktop. Supposedly there are new models coming out sometime
soon, but nothing rumored about the still vaporware models seemed
that significant to me, although they will be to others, I suspect,
who are more into computer games and heavy duty graphics and math
processing.

Also snagged a beta of Windows 7, which just about anyone can do
via Microsoft's open beta for at least the short term, and burned
it onto a DVD. It'll be the "alternatve" OS on the new Mac. I run
Vista as the alternative on my Macbook Pro, works fine.

And my old desktop machine is now updated and "ready" to be
"server-ized."


Is Windows 7 designed to be an upgrade from Vista, or is it
strictly a completely new OS install?

Eisboch


Dunno. Haven't even looked at the MS web page on it yet. My guess is
that it'll upgrade a VISTA or it'll do a fresh install.


It's funny. Due to all the horror stories I had heard about Vista, I
was very hesitant to go with it on this new computer. I tried to pay
attention to recommendations regarding RAM, etc. and made sure it had
4GB and was the 64 bit version.

So far, I haven't had a single serious hiccup. In fact, only once did
a program (I think it was InfanView) temporarily "lock up" and
deliver a "program is not responding" message, but as I was reading
it, it automatically cleared itself and continued running. That's
the only time I've seen any sort of glitch and it went away by itself.

Eisboch

If I remember correctly, you didn't purchase your new computer till
after Windows had sent out the SP1 upgrade, that did correct a number of
their initial problems. From what I have read, Windows 7 will run
substantially faster than Vista, but I still will wait till they have
their SP1 upgrade on Windows 7.

My son and daughter love their MAC laptops, but I really don't see any
advantages they have over my Windows XP that would make me want to pay
double the price for a MAC.

On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:15:54 -0500, HK wrote:

Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
...
Mac desktop. Supposedly there are new models coming out sometime soon,
but nothing rumored about the still vaporware models seemed that
significant to me, although they will be to others, I suspect, who are
more into computer games and heavy duty graphics and math processing.

Also snagged a beta of Windows 7, which just about anyone can do via
Microsoft's open beta for at least the short term, and burned it onto
a DVD. It'll be the "alternatve" OS on the new Mac. I run Vista as the
alternative on my Macbook Pro, works fine.

And my old desktop machine is now updated and "ready" to be
"server-ized."


Is Windows 7 designed to be an upgrade from Vista, or is it strictly a
completely new OS install?

Eisboch


Dunno. Haven't even looked at the MS web page on it yet. My guess is
that it'll upgrade a VISTA or it'll do a fresh install.

Either way, MS betas for operating systems always "expire" when the
final version is released. You have to completely remove them to
install a licensed version. Unless you really need to have the beta
for software developnment, it's foolish to install it on a machine you
use for anything else.

Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
...
Mac desktop. Supposedly there are new models coming out sometime soon,
but nothing rumored about the still vaporware models seemed that
significant to me, although they will be to others, I suspect, who are
more into computer games and heavy duty graphics and math processing.

Also snagged a beta of Windows 7, which just about anyone can do via
Microsoft's open beta for at least the short term, and burned it onto
a DVD. It'll be the "alternatve" OS on the new Mac. I run Vista as the
alternative on my Macbook Pro, works fine.

And my old desktop machine is now updated and "ready" to be
"server-ized."


Is Windows 7 designed to be an upgrade from Vista, or is it strictly a
completely new OS install?

Eisboch

Windows 7 is a completely new OS, but is really just a improvement over
Vista, vs a major upgrade. It is basically Windows Vista with the
memory hog problems solved and to improve on the Windows Security system
so it will not be as aggravating. It is designed to be what Vista
should have been and suppossedly will run faster than both Vista and XP
on similar machines.

I think the MAC is a great machine, but I will be waiting on Windows 7
SP1 to upgrade my computer.

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Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote:
Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
...
Mac desktop. Supposedly there are new models coming out sometime
soon, but nothing rumored about the still vaporware models seemed
that significant to me, although they will be to others, I suspect,
who are more into computer games and heavy duty graphics and math
processing.

Also snagged a beta of Windows 7, which just about anyone can do via
Microsoft's open beta for at least the short term, and burned it onto
a DVD. It'll be the "alternatve" OS on the new Mac. I run Vista as
the alternative on my Macbook Pro, works fine.

And my old desktop machine is now updated and "ready" to be
"server-ized."


Is Windows 7 designed to be an upgrade from Vista, or is it strictly
a completely new OS install?

Eisboch

Windows 7 is a completely new OS, but is really just a improvement over
Vista, vs a major upgrade. It is basically Windows Vista with the
memory hog problems solved and to improve on the Windows Security system
so it will not be as aggravating. It is designed to be what Vista
should have been and suppossedly will run faster than both Vista and XP
on similar machines.

I think the MAC is a great machine, but I will be waiting on Windows 7
SP1 to upgrade my computer.

I have 3 machines with XP SP3 on them and they all have Windows 7.0 on
them. What exactly is Vista? What exactly is Windows 7.0? Did M-soft
slip Vista into my systems without my knowlege?