Win7 Is it worth finally giving up XP?

Sabrewulf165 said:
Obvious troll is obvious. Stick with XP if that's what diddles you, and quit boring the rest of us with your ignorance.
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Hehe

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zaxour said:
This is almost like talking to a wall........I mean the guy can't distinguish between MHz and GHz (according to his sig) and is filled to the brim with FUD.
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Whooa. that is a typo. Edited my Sig. I can't believe I never noticed that before.

zaxour said:
Dr Righteous, you asked for everyone's opinion and the overwhelming majority responded, YES go Win 7. XP is a dinosaur now and doesn't effectively use your system resources.
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Yes, you are correct. Everyone is yelling DUMP XP!.
And I guess I will.

Just can't believe how everyone is coming unhinged.
 
QwertyJuan said:
But that is why 7 is so spectacular... it runs BETTER than the PREVIOUS OS, on the same hardware....
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I would tend to agree. 7 is overall faster then Vista no doubt about it. Vista isn't that slow however, never was that bad really, if you had the right hardware, not so much newer hardware.
 
DeaconFrost said:
Ha ha, I didn't catch that. Good call! I did spot the irony in his username, though.
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I get a lot of questions about my username.
It is the same "screen name" I have been using since the early 90s, the days of the dial up BBS.
But if anyone is curious it comes from the 1983 Styx album Kilroy Was Here.
 
heatlesssun said:
I would tend to agree. 7 is overall faster then Vista no doubt about it. Vista isn't that slow however, never was that bad really, if you had the right hardware, not so much newer hardware.
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This may be true... I have yet to find that "right hardware" I guess.... :)
 
heatlesssun said:
I would agree that if what you have works then keeping it makes sense. But you're running your business on a 7 year old P4 with XP? What happends when that machine dies? Sometimes you upgrade not because you need to but because it makes like easier in the end. XP is not a platform to be tied to because its no longer getting top tier support from Microsoft and XP is only going downhill from now on.

I would suggest getting a new system with Windows 7 when they come out (or build your own if want)) and simply TRY getting you business systems up and running on a Windows 7 box. I bet its easier than you're thinking.
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My Business system has been the MOST reliable system I have ever owned. Kudos to DFI!. In most cases a motherboard fails, by that time, you would rather upgrade anyway.
Don't worry, all my data gets backed up. I work from home and do everything via web portals and Terminal Services with the main office.
And while all that goes one, I still can burn DVDs and play videos and MP3s in the background when things are kinda slow.
There is nothing I need to do with this system that bring it to a crawl with reason.
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Dr. Righteous said:
My Business system has been the MOST reliable system I have ever owned. Kudos to DFI!. In most cases a motherboard fails, by that time, you would rather upgrade anyway.
Don't worry, all my data gets backed up. I work from home and do everything via web portals and Terminal Services with the main office.
And while all that goes one, I still can burn DVDs and play videos and MP3s in the background when things are kinda slow.
There is nothing I need to do with this system that bring it to a crawl with reason.
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I'm sure that you keep things backed up! ;)

My point was that eventually stuff just gets too old to be counted on and XP is in that category. It's seen its last service pack, won't recieve primary attention from developers with Windows 7 on the way and to be honest XP is just not as secure though it can be VERY secure.

I just think that at this point you SHOULD be able to put together a system running Windows 7 that works MUCH BETTER than your XP machine. If you can't something is SEVERLY wrong.
 
P.S. Off topic... but MAKE sure you use a Raid 1 array if you build a new machine. With the price of HDD's nowadays, it's not worth building a machine without one. :)

Data redundency FTW.
 
Ok sorry.... you may be reading that wrong... it only supports TWO PHYSICAL CPU'S.... but EACH of those CPU's could have 4 cores....
 
It is.

No one with more than 2 physical CPU's would be running a desktop OS like XP anyway.
 
QwertyJuan said:
Sorry... you are wrong.
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EDIT:
I stand corrected.
Windows XP does support more than 2 cores. But not more than 2 socketed processors.
So, I guess if you had a duel socket MB you could have 8 cores that would work with XP :D
 
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heatlesssun said:
I believe this is correct.
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It IS correct... I have a Core 2 Quad 2.4ghz at work with XP 64Bit on it.... the guys use it for Photoshop and some other Adobe program that makes movies(cannot remember the name) and it utilizes all 4 cores....
 
XP Pro x64 != XP.

Would be nice if people would get that shit straight once and for all, since XP Pro x64 has been around for basically 5 years now. It's not XP, so don't lump it into category with XP.

XP Pro x86 supports two physical CPUs in sockets, nothing more, with no limit on cores per socketed CPU.

Sockets != cores, either.
 
You won't see any performance enhancements from Win7, but you won't see any performance degradation either ( if your hardware is less than 2 years old ). If you want better security, and eye candy go with Win7, if not then just stick with XP it seems to work for you. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
 
Joe Average said:
XP Pro x64 != XP.

Would be nice if people would get that shit straight once and for all, since XP Pro x64 has been around for basically 5 years now. It's not XP, so don't lump it into category with XP.

XP Pro x86 supports two physical CPUs in sockets, nothing more, with no limit on cores per socketed CPU.

Sockets != cores, either.
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Regardless of what you want to call it... BOTH versions of XP support MORE than 2 cores.
 
I needed to switch to vista was because I want to enjoy DX10 and fully use my gtx280 SLI, vista has better support for 64bit then XP pro 64bit. But I didn't like vista's superfetch since you have to wait to prefetch everything at startup. But now Windows 7 on my rig owns windows XP and vista.
 
To the OP:

I said something very similar about XP when it was released because I was a win2k user.

If you don't see a reason to upgrade then don't.
 
Vista blows. I would use XP for eternity if that was the only alternative.

However, I fully plan on buying Windows 7 when it comes out. I have high hopes for it.
 
RS3RS said:
Vista blows. I would use XP for eternity if that was the only alternative.

However, I fully plan on buying Windows 7 when it comes out. I have high hopes for it.
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People like this are still hanging around this forum?

The ignorance is astounding.
 
I never understood what all the fuss was about Vista. It's a pretty decent OS, and over the years I have not had a single problem with it. In fact, I have had less trouble with it than I had with Windows XP. But getting back on topic, I think Windows 7 is much better than either Vista or XP, I am not very interested in the new graphics and all, but I think it seems to run a bit more snappier than either of its predecessors.
 
JSarella said:
I am not very interested in the new graphics and all, but I think it seems to run a bit more snappier than either of its predecessors.
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Anyone who thinks that the Windows 7 GUI is all flash simply hasn't used it enough. The new Aero window gestures are simply a must have IMHO for anyone that likes lots of open apps. Its MUSH easier to navigate applications in 7.
 
to the OP:

I basically am also a hardcore WINXP fan. I ran vista for maybe a week and then reverted back to XP. Never touched Vista since. However I have been running Windows 7 from the beta and am pleased.

Keep in mind I am running it on the rig in my sig, which is by no means fast...(was blazing 4 years ago lol). Anyway, when I'm using my XP work computer I actually miss Win7. Its that good.
 
Oh, and I just wanted to reiterate, I'm running WIN7 on a SINGLE CORE 2.26Ghz Pentium-M. Blazing. But the OS runs just fine, no worse then XP.
 
A lot of people base their opinions of a Windows OS upon the first impressions of the news media before any service pack is released.

Generally, the news media will crap all over the product in the review complaining about things that typically are fairly quickly fixed. Nobody comes back to re-review the product after a service pack or two has been released, and so that's why you hear some pretty awful things.

Vista had a really bad rap early on, because it honestly did have some problems. Microsoft worked out most of them with the first few patches and Service Pack 1, but by then the damage had been done.

On top of that you have people who are very resistant to installing updates to their OS, and so often you don't see the problems getting fixed.

I do computer repair as a second job and I've been on a lot of service calls that just needed an update to resolve the issue. It's why I always carry a thumb drive with all of the Windows XP and Vista service packs.
 
I'm so uncool, I still use XP as my main OS. In fact the same install since 2004, OMG i'm behind the times..:rolleyes: If the OS you currently use suits your needs I don't see a reason to dump it. I run Vista and Windows 7 in VMs on my own machine, I work with Vista on a daily basis for clients. Never once did I use Vista and say to myself, I gotta have this as my main OS. Windows 7 is cool I will probably jump to it eventually as my main OS but I don't have a fire under my ass to do so as soon as it comes out.
 
number69 said:
I'm so uncool, I still use XP as my main OS. In fact the same install since 2004, OMG i'm behind the times..:rolleyes: If the OS you currently use suits your needs I don't see a reason to dump it. I run Vista and Windows 7 in VMs on my own machine, I work with Vista on a daily basis for clients. Never once did I use Vista and say to myself, I gotta have this as my main OS. Windows 7 is cool I will probably jump to it eventually as my main OS but I don't have a fire under my ass to do so as soon as it comes out.
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When you DO use it, you won't want to go back... I have been using XP since 2001, and didn't go to Vista until this year... was with Vista for two months then went to 7. Now that I use 7 on my main machine, when I use XP, I'm like "MAN this feels so old now"..... seriously... the new taskbar rocks, and the 'snap-to' feature is incredible... it's similar to using a mouse with no wheel IMO....
 
Dr. Righteous said:
I am NOT impressed with slick looking GUIs for fancy gimmicks. I want performance and stability above all!
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Then you should probably switch to Windows Vista or Windows 7, since they're both faster than Windows XP and both are much more stable than XP though features added to their new driver model.
 
AbJ32 said:
Then you should probably switch to Windows Vista or Windows 7, since they're both faster than Windows XP and both are much more stable than XP though features added to their new driver model.
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I would disagree on them being faster on OLD hardware.... but regardless, better OS's....
 
We ran demos and test when Vista came out. We decided that it wasn't worth the upgrade at the time. We stuck with XP pro at work in our domain environment. Looking back it was definitely the right decision because it saved us money and XP pro has remain relatively stable with SP3.

Now we are testing Win7. I think MS has this OS right. I am pretty impressed. It's been very smooth. The chances are pretty good that we are going to go the XP pro to Win 7 route.
 
I wasn't much of a fan of Vista for a long time but now I'm ready to move on to Vista 64 for my gaming rigs for the Direct X 10 features.Win 7 I'll give a little time for MS to work out the bugs and move into soon I'm sure as well (few more Mo.s). MS looks to be changing direction with unpacking all the junk it used to ship with any of the Windows applications and I go back to Win 3.1. Now I have read you can pick your browser, FireFox or Safari ect... My main Issue with changing OS has always been drivers and XP has always been the most OS stable for us and our needs. I've always enjoyed playing with the betas but my playing days are over and stability is a preference for the PCs that are needed on a daily basis.
 
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