Windows 7 pre-orders

[Eklipze3k]

lol, 5 years ago I used to be a hardcore PC guy. I knew the latest motherboards/graphics cards/sound cards... the lot.

Eventually I just lost interest, and now when i research again everything has moved on dramatically

I remember when the 7800GTX came out, and it was the best graphics card money could buy, and now its rubbish.

Windows Vista still seems brand new to me, now you're all moving to Windows 7 i feel left behind.

:yeahthat: Exactly the same for me, I built this PC when Vista came out and have had it on since then even though I hated it at the time I've just become too lazy to take it off. Given how little I play games nowadays, I'm actually very tempted to go all the way back to Win2k - I'm sure I had that running for about 9 months solid without having to restart my PC once. Nowadays I have to restart on a weekly basis because for reasons unknown Vista occasionally decides it's forgotten where my wireless NIC is.

If I ever get around to building a new machine I'll put 7 on it, but in the meantime if it ain't broke I won't fix it.

 

[Argonought]

Unless of course you want DX10 / DX11 for gaming - I have been on Vista Ultimate 64 bit for a few months now; every time I use my XP machine, it winds me up

If you're a hard nut gamer then fair enough - but most of the time Vista winds me up when it can't handle basic applications that used to work (like 20 years ago!!)

Windows Vista still seems brand new to me, now you're all moving to Windows 7 i feel left behind.

Strikes me you've made the best move - just pretend MS never released it

If I ever get around to building a new machine I'll put 7 on it, but in the meantime if it ain't broke I won't fix it.

Too right Haven't had to reinstall XP Pro in like 6 years :spin: (even if my hardware is looking very dated )

 

[custard]

I had one but I spilt beer all over it. Can't afford a new one atm!

check gamestation for 360 HD DVD drives
@ £19.99 they make reasonably priced external drives

 

[tim1989]

Iv been runing windows7 for about a year

 

[Kier]

Windows XP works fine

lol...I'm still using XP as well, does everything I want, although step was saying Windows 7 is very good...might get the pre-order as its cheap.

 

[default_user]

I never bothered with Vista at all, except for a brief dabble to see what it was like. Of the four PCs I have in the house, 3 are still running XP which serves well enough for the mainly low powered uses I have for them. However, the new machine I just built needs a 64 bit OS to get the most out of it or I'd still just use XP.

W7 is good though. The only problem I've had with it is that it sometimes just randomly dumps you out of a game for no apparent reason. I've had this with both Fallout 3 and UT3. It doesn't stop everything though. The task manager always recovers you back to the OS with no fuss. No doubt things like this will stop happening once it matures a bit more and games are patched with W7 specific updates.

And £45 is a very good price for a whole new OS really. I'm going to buy it.

 

[ChrisUK]

I've played lots of games including older ones absolutly no trouble!. Runs faster than XP i've found too.

 

[default_user]

Dammit.

I just tried to buy the pre-order offer that I linked to from Currys and they've stopped doing it, even though they said it was open until 8th August. :tosser:

Anyone know if anyone else is still offering it for £45?

 

[udtrev]

PCWorld are now charging £69.93

Micro$oft back to battering the wallet !


Trev

 

[default_user]

Just Googled to see if I could find something. It's about £70 to £80 everywhere now and when it's released it'll go up even more to MS's usual ludicrous prices.

I might just do what I usually do..

 

[Eklipze3k]

Just Googled to see if I could find something. It's about £70 to £80 everywhere now and when it's released it'll go up even more to MS's usual ludicrous prices.

I might just do what I usually do..

:yeahthat: :devil:

 

[ChrisUK]

I know I probably shouldn't admit this but I've never bought a legal copy of windows since 3.11

 

[Eklipze3k]

I know I probably shouldn't admit this but I've never bought a legal copy of windows

Corrected for global accuracy

 

[ChrisUK]

Corrected for global accuracy

lol

 

[Chas Uno]

If it's any help, I've just seen that WWW.DABS.COM are offering pre-ordered Windows 7 Home Premium for £46.11 and Professional for £93.79.

http://www.dabs.com/category/softwa...erating-systems/11168?q="microsoft windows 7"

 

[default_user]

Great! (I thought)

But then I just had a look and it's now £125. And not available anyway.:bang:

 

[Stu DemonD]

Out of all the software I don't own , I do ensure I keep a legit copy of my OS...

Decided in the end not to do anything, I only bought this copy of Vista Ultimate 64 bit recently, so will keep it going for another year or so, then take a view on the prices of Windows 7 then

 

[ChrisUK]

I should probably add I've since "Inherited" a couple XP Pro OEM licenses

 

[Argonought]

I should probably add I've since "Inherited" a couple XP Pro OEM licenses

You certainly save yourself a lot grief if you keep to genuine CoA's

MS would like them to die with the PC but it's a funny thing how all the PCs I come across never do

 

[ChrisUK]

You certainly save yourself a lot grief if you keep to genuine CoA's

MS would like them to die with the PC but it's a funny thing how all the PCs I come across never do

Hehehe :devil: