Windows 7 -When will you get it?

[hypnoticstate]

Will you be one of those people who grabs it straight away or wait until the 1st service pack? I'm afraid ill get it straight away (when its available).

[Infinite]

Straight

[Splash]

Well... I'll be grabbing it today to install on a test box at work to play with today. Or do you mean the retail release? If that's the case I'll probably see when it actually gets released and see what the public beta brings: if it's worth the investment I'll probably buy not long after release, or whenever I build my next PC.

[synaesthesia]

Will be bought straight away purely on the strength of the beta release.

[aidanjt]

I'll see how the beta is. But Microsoft will need to leave a very large impression on me for me to part with my cash, and if they ask too much again, I'll just give it another skip.

[mehmeh]

Another vote for looking forward too and seeing what the beta is like, but thats all it is, a beta... Bit early to be hailing it as the second coming and talking retail, no?

[digit]

I'll be getting it as soon as it hits MSDN: AA. Should be a good few months before public release just like Vista was

[Grey M@a]

Waiting for the public beta to have a play but after forking out for Vista x64 Ultimate it will be a while before I pay Microsoft's usual extortionate price for Windows 7. From what I have seen of the technet release at friends houses on similar machines to mine there isn't really that much of a performance difference bar the memory handling, no longer take 1.7GB as standard like vista does at boot up.

[TheAnimus]

Waiting for the public beta to have a play but after forking out for Vista x64 Ultimate it will be a while before I pay Microsoft's usual extortionate price for Windows 7. From what I have seen of the technet release at friends houses on similar machines to mine there isn't really that much of a performance difference bar the memory handling, no longer take 1.7GB as standard like vista does at boot up.

Which is a really worrying thing, super-fetch is a great idea.

Taking 1.7GB is absoletely fine, so long as it gets freed the second an application wants to use it.

Not using RAM thats installed on a PC is just plain stupid......

ARGH i've been ranting about this for 3 years, but people still don't seam to get it.

[Grey M@a]

Which is a really worrying thing, super-fetch is a great idea.

Taking 1.7GB is absoletely fine, so long as it gets freed the second an application wants to use it.

Not using RAM thats installed on a PC is just plain stupid......

ARGH i've been ranting about this for 3 years, but people still don't seam to get it.

Hey you don't have to preach to me dude, I love vista and have been standing up for it for the year I have used it. Never had an issue for it, if anything my post above was saying Windows 7 isn't the performance increase a lot of us was expecting. Obviously its a beta and will be tidied up but I am seriously wondering is it even worth another £130ish on OEM for a x64 Ultimate edition when it lands over what I have now in Vista.

I must admit I am sick of the vista bashing but it doesn't help when you even have employee's of MS saying it was a mess and trying to rush Windows 7. I am seeing a lot of vista = Windows ME which always makes me laugh. Vista actually works which ME didn't lol

The 1.7gb doesn't bother me on my machine as its running a quad core and 4GB of memory and the system is purely for gaming these days. Tbh I think I will be with Vista for a long time to come yet and Windows 7 can gain a service pack then I will look at it again. The only thing I can see swinging my decision would be if work were dishing out Windows 7 Ultimate for a £22ish licence under the educational licensing. From a gaming point of view Windows 7 will probably not be used for a while yet due to it using DX11, my 8800GTS 512 doesn't do DX11 and there are hardly any games out there exclusively for DX10 never mind DX11.

Windows 7 has fixed a few gripes of Vista I will admit but as an OS Vista is as stable as you like. I've only had one issue to date and that was purely down to a duff driver from Shuttle which was easily replaced from the manufacture.

So I am with you brother, Vista is not the nightmare people make it out to be. Half the problem is people are trying to run Vista with all the bells and whistles on a machine that could just get away with XP and more to the fact using Hardware years old that is clearly listed as not supported.

[MadduckUK]

Another vote for looking forward too and seeing what the beta is like, but thats all it is, a beta... Bit early to be hailing it as the second coming and talking retail, no?

not when you try the beta no, pretty much ready to go tbh

[aidanjt]

Bit early to be hailing it as the second coming and talking retail, no?

People only hail it due to their irrational Vista hate.

[[GSV]Trig]

I'll have a play with it when I get it on SA.

[Zadock]

I'll stick it on to download tonight I expect, while I'm out, and have a play sometime over the weekend. Probably set up a dual boot... Thats the beta, as for buying the full thing I'll probably get it when it comes out.

[Keva161]

Straight away - love the beta!

[matty-hodgson]

The 1.7gb doesn't bother me on my machine as its running a quad core and 4GB of memory and the system is purely for gaming these days.

that's the only reason Vista is using 1.7GB of your memory.
if you took it down to 2GB it'd only use about 900-1000MB on boot up, and if you take it to 1GB it will only use about 600-700MB on boot up, so all it's doing really is making best use of the resources available to it.