Comments on: Windows 7 RC Review http://buckycomputing.net/blog/windows-7-rc-review/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:27:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Richard http://buckycomputing.net/blog/windows-7-rc-review/comment-page-1/#comment-103 Richard Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:28:22 +0000 http://buckycomputing.net/?p=325#comment-103 Downloaded, installed W7 Ult RC1 32bit. So far I'm mildly impressed since it took some odd-ball programs I never expected it to run and runs them well. One program is a freebee, but very comprehensive audio editor that cooked right from the beginning. The mail program in Win Live is OK...nothing fancy, but serviceable. The rest of Win Live is fluff for which I have little use. W7 found my video (nVidia 9400GT/1GB, audio card and Ptr/Scan/Copier (Brother DCP-350C) and loaded the appropriate drivers with no fuss. Microsoft's audio driver works very well...no need to install Realtek's HD Audio driver at all. My NIC, LAN and router were detected and installed without incident. My system dual-boots with XP Pro SP3 and all the drives/partitions are in NTFS, so rowing through the system is simple. I've been trying the various offerings from the Linux community, and some of them are very good indeed, but none of them offers the apps I want despite the massive repositories of software. I just hope I don't suffer sticker-shock when I see the price MS will ask to validate my copy of W7. Downloaded, installed W7 Ult RC1 32bit. So far I’m mildly impressed since it took some odd-ball programs I never expected it to run and runs them well. One program is a freebee, but very comprehensive audio editor that cooked right from the beginning.

The mail program in Win Live is OK…nothing fancy, but serviceable. The rest of Win Live is fluff for which I have little use.

W7 found my video (nVidia 9400GT/1GB, audio card and Ptr/Scan/Copier (Brother DCP-350C) and loaded the appropriate drivers with no fuss. Microsoft’s audio driver works very well…no need to install Realtek’s HD Audio driver at all.

My NIC, LAN and router were detected and installed without incident.

My system dual-boots with XP Pro SP3 and all the drives/partitions are in NTFS, so rowing through the system is simple.

I’ve been trying the various offerings from the Linux community, and some of them are very good indeed, but none of them offers the apps I want despite the massive repositories of software.

I just hope I don’t suffer sticker-shock when I see the price MS will ask to validate my copy of W7.

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