MS Windows 7 Pre-order from £49.99
19 October 2009, 10:09 AM
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my copy just turned up in the post even though it clearly said on the order email pre orders will NOT be sent out before day of official release and will take 5-7 days to arrive. I wonder if they sent it early due to the postal strike this week.
I thought all pre orders were only the N version?
19 October 2009, 09:22 PM
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) it had better turn up soon!
21 October 2009, 01:26 PM
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Installed my copy last night, only took about half an hour. Pleased to see the programs that wouldn't work in the beta now work ie. Microsoft Money.
21 October 2009, 01:41 PM
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Well, I have been running the RC for a couple of months, so I'm not too worried about it arriving really. I would just like to stop running the "extend trial" command and have a legitimate licence.
As mentioned before, it is better than Vista for speed and compatibliity.
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As mentioned before, it is better than Vista for speed and compatibliity.
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28 October 2009, 01:07 AM
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I've just installed Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit on my PC and I have to say that it was the most easy install, setup and update I have ever done of a windows product
28 October 2009, 11:39 AM
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It was indeed a breeze to install, but I didn't think it was any worse than Vista was.
Running nicely on my PC and also dual booting alongside Mac OS X on my netbook
Running nicely on my PC and also dual booting alongside Mac OS X on my netbook
28 October 2009, 12:07 PM
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Yeah, it's on my Acer Aspire One (Intel). I've upgraded the RAM to 1.5Gb and installed 10.5.7 using iatkos v7i.
I installed Win7 first on one parition, then OS X afterwards on another. It dual boots using Chameleon. Just waiting for a my new mini PCI-e wireless card to get OS X online - the standard Atheros card is pretty hit and miss.
It's all new to me; but I fancied giving it a go to see if I could
It was pretty easy using iATKOS - so long as you select the right options upon install. I had one issue where Win7 wouldn't boot, but fixed it using diskpart pretty quickly.
I installed Win7 first on one parition, then OS X afterwards on another. It dual boots using Chameleon. Just waiting for a my new mini PCI-e wireless card to get OS X online - the standard Atheros card is pretty hit and miss.
It's all new to me; but I fancied giving it a go to see if I could
It was pretty easy using iATKOS - so long as you select the right options upon install. I had one issue where Win7 wouldn't boot, but fixed it using diskpart pretty quickly.
28 October 2009, 12:15 PM
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Nice, i've got an acer aspire one as well and so has my eldest and he is always in the apple shop playing on the macs.
How much was it to upgrade the ram? Ours are both still on 1gb and I guess you need the extra for osx? Very tempted to give this a go as it would keep him happy for ages playing with osx on his netbook.
How much was it to upgrade the ram? Ours are both still on 1gb and I guess you need the extra for osx? Very tempted to give this a go as it would keep him happy for ages playing with osx on his netbook.
28 October 2009, 12:24 PM
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Mine only came with 512Mb so I bought a 1Gb chip from Crucial for £13.20 - may be a little cheaper now but you may well get away with 1Gb. The wireless card was £11 from eBay, although I've just sent one faulty one back for a refund.
I'm not sure if the trackpad gestures are all sorted yet and sleep mode doesn't work but it's being worked on all of the time so things are always getting fixed
It runs like a dream, so it's nice to use and learn a new (to me) OS.
I'm not sure if the trackpad gestures are all sorted yet and sleep mode doesn't work but it's being worked on all of the time so things are always getting fixed
It runs like a dream, so it's nice to use and learn a new (to me) OS.
30 October 2009, 12:25 PM
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The DW-1490 card works like a dream in OS X and Win7 At home it picked up an additional 5 wireless networks that I've never seen before, including BT Openzone - the nearest one I know of is probably over 1/2 to 3/4 mile away
At home it picked up an additional 5 wireless networks that I've never seen before, including BT Openzone - the nearest one I know of is probably over 1/2 to 3/4 mile away
30 October 2009, 04:00 PM
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The bloke I got it from is a new seller (only 23 feedback) and it looks like he doesn't have more - just a one off. There are plenty more on there though.
DW-1490,DW1490, Computing items at low prices on eBay.co.uk
The faulty one I sent back was from 'mirek999' - so you may want to avoid them. They're selling most of the eBay listed ones.
It worked with OS X straight out of the box. Win7 I needed to connect to the net with ethernet for it to work - maybe it updated the driver?
DW-1490,DW1490, Computing items at low prices on eBay.co.uk
The faulty one I sent back was from 'mirek999' - so you may want to avoid them. They're selling most of the eBay listed ones.
It worked with OS X straight out of the box. Win7 I needed to connect to the net with ethernet for it to work - maybe it updated the driver?
30 October 2009, 04:25 PM
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Cheers mate. Sat down to do this install this afternoon but didn't realise iatkos was a big download so sitting here waiting now - thought I had to use a normal osx disk so got hold of that for no reason as didn't know what iatkos was. Nothing like reading the instructions before sitting down to start eh 