Windows 7 prebeta -- my take

[desiibond]

Hey Guys,

Hardware:

HP XW4300 workstation

CPU: Pentium 4 processor running at 3.2GHz
RAM: 1Gb DDR 400
HDD: 80Gb Western Digital
GPU: Nvidia Quadro 540

Before saying anything about this OS, here is a picture that says a thousand words:



Installed OS while connected to internet. And look, not even a single unknown h/w in the device manager. And btw, it's a 2yr old workstation.

Cudos to MS for this

More coming up.

[Faun]

well 2 years old isn't much older than the sound card I have

Goo to know that it detected all the h/w devices. Btw a review in Review section can clear up things more lucidly.

[desiibond]

^^ Okay. Mods!! Please move this to Review section.

Rating: 3.7 for base score.

Installed the following programs:

Yahoo Messenger 8.1 - Install without any hiccup and believe it or not, no UAC popup.
Winrar 3.71 - no issues. UAC asked whether to go ahead or not as the publisher id is unknown
Winamp 5.5.31 with winamp remote - smooth installation. UAC asked whether to go ahead or not.
vmware workstation 6 - smooth installation. Took some time to install virtual ethernet adaptor but no errors at all.
VLC 0.9.2 - smooth installation. All the codecs installed. Able to view divx content. no errors.
TightVNC - smooth installation. took less than 10 seconds.
Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 - smooth installation. Took less than 20 seconds.
System Mechanic 7 - smooth installation
Mozilla Sunbird - smooth installation
Skype - smooth installation
Microsoft silverlight 1 - smooth installation
Cygwin - not very smooth installation. Error: This program might not have installed correctly. but installation ended properly
Slim Browser - smooth installation
Safari - smooth installation
Bonjour - Error with registration
Reget Pro - smooth installation
Real player 10 - smooth installation
picasa2 - smooth installation
pidgin - smooth installation
Notetab - smooth installation
Media monkey 3 - smooth installation
last.fm 1.5 - smooth installation
itunes 8 - smooth installation (first app to peak CPU to 100% during installation. hehe )
flock 1.2 - smooth installation
google talk - ERROR. You don't have write permission to program files directory. hahaha (ms not allowing google to write to

prog files after their deal with yahoo??)
Everest Ultimate 4.5 - smooth installation
DU Meter - smooth installation
Google Chrome - smooth installation
CCleaner 2.06 - smooth installation
BlazeFTP - smooth installation
Ad Muncher - Error Unable to install
Adobe reader v8.1.2 - smooth installation
Avant Browser - smooth installation
Abiword - smooth installation
Ad Aware 2008 - smooth installation
powerISO - smooth installation

[thewisecrab]

WoW........looks decent IMO....

[desiibond]

Now, while all the apps are in maximised state,

I opened IE 8, uploaded an image to imageshack and here is the image:




Look at aero at this point where RAM is utilized like hell:

Oh forgot, this is on a 2yr old PC with score of 3.7, 1gig ram and P4 3.2GHz processor:





PS: cricket live udpate pages are open in all the browsers

[thewisecrab]

So it is not sluggish?

[desiibond]

it IS sluggish. You can't expect it to be blazing. I just wanted to show the stability of the OS.

while so many pages were open, I took screenshots and uploaded pics to imageshack and copied that to Digit. and nowhere you can find that hangup's. You can go on and do the work.

PS: Who will use 4 music players, 10 browsers, 10 optimizers at the same time?