Windows 7 installation GO!

[psipsy]

Went with the 64-bit version, because I can.

The installation screen has a very smooth and purdy interface to it, as opposed to XP and 2000's no-nonsense, all-biznatch, let's-get-down-to-brass-tacks raw text. As I've mentioned before, I'm not so adventurous as to overwrite my XP install. Not only is it going onto a fresh hard drive, it's also going onto an external one hooked up via eSata. That way I can switch it off entirely if I don't feel like messing with it.

Memory usage? For comparison, 32-bit XP uses about 350-400MB after startup, and that's with everything installed and in place after 18 months. 64-bit W7 however, gobbles up as much as a full GB. This is somewhat expected, and if I went with the 32-bit version it would presumably be less. My system already has 2GB, and can go up to 8GB if need be.

There's already graphics drivers available; so that's off to a good start. Installed the Combined Community Codec Pack, which was written more for Vista than W7, but it went through anyway. So far the only glitch I found was Media Player Classic would ignore subtitles in .mkv files; however the Zoom Player didn't have such an issue.

That's all for now; I plan on taking another look under the hood later on.

Comments

[exedore.livejournal.com]

Just a reminder if you haven't seen already, the newest OSX point revision is out. I can't remember if you're on Leopard or not, but earlier versions may also have security updates, etc. to pull at the same time.

[psipsy.livejournal.com]

Still on Tiger on the G4, which is probably as far as it'll go. It's set up for automatic notification as it is.

[dividemymind.livejournal.com]

As much as I do not like Windows, I have been hearing nothing but praise about W7.

Was half thinking about installing it on my media pc. I have mythbuntu on there now. Even though I LOVE Linux, I do not think media is its strong point.

[psipsy.livejournal.com]

Would it be possible to move partitions around? If not, put it on its own drive like I did. Either way you'd have to contend with W7 taking over the bootloader.

I also have Ubuntu and VLC mostly works for it. Still so much to learn about it.

[dividemymind.livejournal.com]

I supposed I could partition the drive. Only problem is getting around to it.

I use Vmware player in Ubuntu to run MS Exel 2007. Needed it for a class I was taking >.<
It seems there is always something new to learn when it comes to Linux.

[psipsy.livejournal.com]

Had any experience with Wine for an emulator?

[dividemymind.livejournal.com]

I do. I use it with a couple of programs, but I could not get it to work with Excel. -.-

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

Boy, am I out of the loop....I didn't even know Windows had come out with a new OS.

I'll just stick with XP, kthx. I think it's JUST FINE despite its quirks.

[psipsy.livejournal.com]

Officially it's not quite ready for primetime. I'll probably keep XP as well for the forseeable future.

[resonant.livejournal.com]

http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/cowboy_modine/?brand=1234

[aichan95.livejournal.com]

I lol'd.