Poll: Windows 7 - first impressions

[RooftopAssassin]

For people like me, performance hogs are not an issue...

Unlike some of you poor bastards, i have money to spend on my computer, and that is not a problem for me...

My computer can handle everything i throw at it...

It gets really annoying...

you know...

When you type...

like this...

And your making PC gamers look like elitists, and that's not a good thing.

 

[Lonan]

I don't see why you would want a bigger operating system if you just want to play games. XP is great for me, Vista and Windows 7 will just increase demands on my computer. I want a computer that will play games, not have fancy, frilly things to make you think you've just bought something important, rather than an operating system with a few extra features for a few hundred extra dollars.

 

[BIGB0SS]

Its evolutionary

 

[Talendra]

I am sticking with Vista in my main pc for the moment, probably upgrade after the first service pack or when I overhaul my pc next.

 

[MDSnowman]

Still got XP, I figure I'll end up with 7 whenever it is I get enough money together to buy a new computer.

 

[Little Duck]

I've glimpsed it. From what I can tell, visually it's not too different from Vista, except for the start button which seems to think it's a lightbulb. But it does have other eye candy features I've seen and like and that matters more to me than most things so yeah, it's good, but it does look alot like vista still.

 

[Uncompetative]

Also, my processors are Intel® Core? i7-965 Extreme Edition OC'd to 3.8 GHz

Somebody actually bought that overpriced processor? I think I reserve the right to facepalm. The Core i7-920 overclocks nearly as much, yielding roughly comparable performance when overclocked, yet is one-quarter of the price.

The i7-965 has just about the worst price-to-performance ratio of any consumer-level processor. I mean, if you had money to burn, why the hell did you waste your money on that instead of buying a technically superior Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron quad-core? They use Opterons at the supercomputer level, not Core i7s. At least with that, you'd be able to brag about having components outside the realms of the consumer market. All you have right now is an over-expensive consumer processor and and over-elaborate cooling system.

As it stands, you're going to look pretty sheepish when the hexa-core Core i9 processors are released next year, probably at the same price point as your i7-965 was at release. The point also stands, mainly as a point of comparison, that my theoretical 16-core, quad-processor system configuration would outperform your machine at the same price range, even if you would need Linux to take advantage of it. Frankly, I'd rather have the four blades of that system than a top-end PC. At least you'd be able to separate them for LAN party action.

I'm saving my money up for the Intel Polaris.

;-)

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teraflops_Research_Chip

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

I'm still using the beta! Woo!

 

[Lonan]

I don't see why you would want a bigger operating system if you just want to play games. XP is great for me, Vista and Windows 7 will just increase demands on my computer. I want a computer that will play games, not have fancy, frilly things to make you think you've just bought something important, rather than an operating system with a few extra features for a few hundred extra dollars.

I am very sorry to inform you that Windows XP does not support Direct X 10 or 11...
That is why you need a new OS ever few years...

On the other hand, if you want to play games with Counter Strike Source level graphics for the rest of your life, stick to windows XP...

I, for one, like eye candy!

Well, I can play Crysis on full detail with XP, and Dawn of War II on full detail, so I think I'm good.

 

[Lonan]

I'm not a big fan of art, so I don;t care as much as you. I would need to have spent 1.5-2 grand on a computer rather than the one grand I spent on my current desktop. I like having money, so I chose to not go with the XTREME expensive model.

I bought this computer:
http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/PID-MX26167(ME).aspx

I could have gone with the more expensive ones (mines second least expensive) but once you get up there I thought that a lot of the cost would be in the fancy computer case. These are all the options I had to choose from:

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/Computers(ME)/ComputerSystems(ME)/GamingSystems(ME)/Default.aspx

Could you tell me what Direct X is though? I've heard about it, just don't know much about it.

 

[L33tsauce_Marty]

Well as I'm a student I'm getting it for £30, but not touching it till the guys who did Vlite and Xlite work their magic for Windows 7.

From what i've read/seen some ideas a good...shame they had to go and be gimmicky and add a touch screen feature. I call it gimmicky because there are very little practical uses for it.

Watch out, there is problems with that version. Link: http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/windows-7-student-upgrade-installer-not-working-for-many/

 

[sirdanrhodes]

I've been on the RC and beta for a while, and am going to get Windows 7 in a few days, so I'll edit this post then.

 

[Comma-Kazie]

It seems like it will compare favorably to Vista . . . but then, even Timothy McVeigh compares favorably to Vista.

 

[Soulkiller3]

Edzor you really do sound like a consol gamer, I can build top end gaming rigs for 500 pounds, which is more to brag about then "I have lots of cash so I let people rip me off with over priced goods".

Win7 is the upgrade to vista. I have been looking at the benchmarks for xp/vista/win7 and vista is last by a average of 20%. Then xp and then then win7. Both xp/win7 are very close for networking, fps on games ram/hard drive loading, but win7 has allot more to offer.

I am on xp atm, I got the student win7 offer (yay for my old uin not deleting my student email) and downloaded it the day it came out, sadly it was not a iso format but a 64bit exe format. Am running 32bit, so my pc does not like that. I transferred the exe to iso, but I also have 500gigs of files to sort threw and back up so it be a week before I try it.

I tried vista and hated it, but win7 I got with out trying it, am not confidence on the reviews, I will see in a week or so if I was right to be confidant.

Win7 main advantage over vista is performance.