Thread: Upgrading to Windows 7 or Snow Leopard?

HEY HEYYY!!!
I can do an "in-place upgrade"!

I guess that means only two false starts before it works and half a day instead of a full day to perform

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I actually went to the beta version of win7 before jumping to ubuntu. I had to do a clean install as i was going from XP, which didn't particularly worry me, and the OS itself was pretty solid from the little use i gave it.
Downsides were it was incredibly slow to load, and networking this machine with what was my Vista laptop on wifi, was a pig! The differences between 7 and vista were enough to make it a real pain.

The amount of peripheral support for w7 at the mo is an issue too.

Never again.

cheers
Nick

i aint spending another cent with m/s upgrade , every time you upgrade the computer runs slower so then you have to buy a new computer , enough is enough

Although if you're a Power Mac PPC user like myself you need to factor in $4.5K for a new Mac Pro to get Snow Leopard. Apple is very good at not caring about customers on older platforms.

Originally Posted by inside

Although if you're a Power Mac PPC user like myself you need to factor in $4.5K for a new Mac Pro to get Snow Leopard. Apple is very good at not caring about customers on older platforms.

but still way better than microshaft..

btw my upgrade to windows 7 on my pc laptop was entirely painless and quite impressive really...

a couple device driver issues but they were a known quanity prior to the upgrade

I am happy with my XP Pro and will not consider "downgrade" to the new versions.
Just imaging the problems in installing again all the software for photography again and the filters is enough to put me off

After fighting with SP2 on Vista I gave up
Installed Fedora 11 and its been fantastic 20 second boot ups and quite stable.
Glad MS is so bad because I make my living out of it lol

I have been using windows 7 RC1 since it came out (couple months) and its great.
People who are saying its very slow to load are either running a dinosaw or comparing it to something half the size. It boots alot quicker than vista does and is generally a bit zippyer for most programs.

Networking specifcaly file sharing I did find a little tricky this was because 7 wanted to use some homegroup thing which looks pretty good but is only compatable with other 7 machines. Turning that off and it worked ok.

Also 7 has quite a few usefull features and works well without any drivers.