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Shinare
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Anyone been using this? My Vista partition got hosed so I am getting Win7 Pro from MSDN as I type this. Any thoughts on the matter? Any new features worth pointing out? Any pit-falls to avoid?
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I've been running it exclusivly since the beta with no real problems at all.

Just do it! Smile

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It's like Vista meets a better scheduler meets KDE 4.2

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Installed it and began to mess with it. Didn't have a lot of time since I was finally don installing it with about 30 minutes left in the day. An important app at where I work is 16-bit and will not work in Vista or 7 natively. I really wanted to see how "XP Mode" worked and how it handled it. Virtual-PC seems to work a little better than a VirtualBox VM when it comes to accessing attached USB peripherals. And "XP Mode" is just a Virtual-PC hard drive image of an XP box. Will have to play with it more tomorrow. I don't like that you can't revert to "Classic" or Windows 2000 "look" for the start menu. Guess I'm gonna have to learn the "new" look after all. heh. I have to say that it really does feel a little snappier. You certainly get to a usable desktop much quicker then XP. Could be because its a fresh install tho, I guess, heh. I also havn't installed anything on it yet except for the "XP Mode" Virtual PC and my 16-bit ap within it.
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Win7 on a decent SSD is pretty kickass. Been using it full time since beta.

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/321957-321957-64295-3740645-3955549-3781677.html

(this laptop isnt perfect but the screen is friggin awesome, 15.4" 1920x1200)

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http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/solid_state_drives/ocz_vertex_ex_series_sata_ii_2_5-ssd

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pleasant windows experience

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I've been using 7 for about a week now from my action pack, and have no real complaints at this point.

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