phew!!!! nice fresh install of win 7 ultimate
 

decided to bite the bullet. reformat and reinstalled a nice copy of win 7 ultimate over my old RC copy. all smooth going. up and running again, updates installed. well happy. boot time for my old 4600+ dual core is surprisingly fast. how long before it slows down i wonder :wonder:

Right up until Win7 SP1 ;)

Why did you buy Ultimate?

(asking as I had Vista Ultimate, but apart from languages I couldn't see any difference between W7 Professional and Ultimate)

Steve

intalling mine now :D

Not answering your question 'cos I aint Biginky - but here's a comparison between all the SKUs which seems fairly succinct to me.

Seems Ultimate has bitlocker and some other stuff but not really home computer type software.

Dave

ive had it a while now and still very good

Just bought a netbook with win 7 installed, looks good to me :D

Tony:)

I've got Win7 Home Premium on three rigs, after playing with the beta, and I can honestly say that it's better than Vista. But then being kicked in the head is better than Vista. But it's still ****ing annoying though, in too many ways to go into. The habit of hiding all the useful stuff at the bottom of seven levels of drill-down menus is annoying enough, but then sticking a shortcut in plain view which doesn't actually do anything has driven me wild since the ****-wits who wrote Vista thought it would be a good idea.


M

A few complaints on the interweb about things slowing down a LOT as time goes by. Like boot time being the same but then you log in and wait 15/20 mins for a desktop. Anyone here seen that?

Dave

I've been using it for 3 months (if not more than that actually) and I haven't seen any slowdown.

Steve

I've been running the RC for months and still as fast as when I installed it.

I'v been running windows 7 enterprise for a while now and its still fast.
Boot time is unreal - I can be out of standby and logged in within seconds

Thats what impressed me the most I gotta say

Waiting for my old desktop to boot up with XP is horrible now compared to my win 7 lappy

lol standby isn't a cold boot or anything like it. Unless u mean powered off? However if your PC boots 7 from power off in seconds then you must be running a Cray cpu :)

But yes 7 is alot faster than Vista in all cases.