Endless Paradigm

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:I think Windows 7 is getting far too much hype.  Better than Vista, but still has a way to go IMO.

I'll have to agree here... Microsoft won't release anything substantially impressive till the Midori core is in place - real progress.

grr...i left the burnout demo downloading overnight, then woke up to a screen sying that my last browsing session ended unexpectedly...now i have to try again...

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:

feinicks Wrote:When you consider that it is Vista's successor, then that itself is a hype. People loved (still love) Vista for its interface. 7 has taken that a step further by offering better performance.

Not particularly - I don't recall so much hype about Vista really.

feinicks Wrote:Also, though no one here is doing it, it is unfare to compare 7 to XP. XP is old. 7's true potential will be realised once the core count goes beyond 6 core (which are supposedly to arrive by year end).

Win7 is keeping kernel modifications to a minimum as MS plans to keep driver compatibility with Vista.
Old means absolutely nothing really.  I can name plenty of old products which work far better than newer ones.  But I'm not here to debate about Win7 vs XP - that's your choice :P

Assassinator Wrote:

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Not particularly - I don't recall so much hype about Vista really.

I do. A lot of negative hype. I clearly remember people saying how poo poo it's going to be cause the beta takes 1.5GB of memory just to run or something (in the age when not even enthusiasts had more than 2GB of RAM).

feinicks Wrote:7's true potential will be realised once the core count goes beyond 6 core (which are supposedly to arrive by year end).

Sounds like bullchocolate to me.

You realise for running windows and stuff, more cores does not really equal fast. A E8500 would run windows better than a Q6600 (same price) in 9 situations out of 10. Most of windows stuff is still serial. Neither is windows so hard to run that it would need something the power of a 6 core processor to run properly. An Intel Atom can run Windows 7 fine.

I should make this clear, by linking you to the article which says this... if I can find it...

* feinicks digs through his bookmarks...

This sucks. Win7 makes it so even crappy computers can handle it. I liked how you needed a high-end PC to get full performance in Vista.

I'm going to have a i7 and 12GB of RAM by the end of the week, now it's going to feel unneeded :(

Kuu Wrote:This sucks. Win7 makes it sho even chocolatety computers can handle it. I liked how you needed a high-end PC to get full performance.

I'm going to have a i7 and 12GB of RAM by the end of the week, now it's going to feel unneeded :(

have multiple monitors and play different games in each one of them

WIN7WIN!!

damn i am glad i installed the latest 7057!!

looks so

I know! It's  amazing how many changes and tweaks are added just going from build pre-beta»7000»7048»7057! They are working overtime on this bitch!

Is 7057 being called the RC1 release now?

Kuu Wrote:This sucks. Win7 makes it so even crappy computers can handle it. I liked how you needed a high-end PC to get full performance in Vista.

But look at it this way, if it is so easy to run that even poo poo computers can run it. Then your high-end computer can run it even faster (faster than if it was really hard to run).

And you still got the advantage in gaming and encoding and stuff, which was probably the main reason why you bought your high end PC in the first place.

Kuu Wrote:I'm going to have a i7 and 12GB of RAM by the end of the week, now it's going to feel unneeded :(

Lol @ 12GB RAM. Do you run like 3 games, 4 video encodes and 5 7zip compressions at the same time?

IMO 4GB is all you need these days (if you on Core i7, then 6GB), while some people I know argue that even 4GB is overkill, and 2GB is the way to go.

Assassinator Wrote:

Kuu Wrote:I'm going to have a i7 and 12GB of RAM by the end of the week, now it's going to feel unneeded :(

Lol @ 12GB RAM. Do you run like 3 games, 4 video encodes and 5 7zip compressions at the same time?

IMO 4GB is all you need these days (if you on Core i7, then 6GB), while some people I know argue that even 4GB is overkill, and 2GB is the way to go.

Pfft, my 128GB RAM pwns

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:

Assassinator Wrote:

Kuu Wrote:I'm going to have a i7 and 12GB of RAM by the end of the week, now it's going to feel unneeded :(

Lol @ 12GB RAM. Do you run like 3 games, 4 video encodes and 5 7zip compressions at the same time?

IMO 4GB is all you need these days (if you on Core i7, then 6GB), while some people I know argue that even 4GB is overkill, and 2GB is the way to go.

Pfft, my 128GB RAM pwns

double you tee eff , want it so bad , gimme gimee
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