Are you planning to move to Windows 7?

[steve.ledger]

The next thing to be sneered at was my Creative X-Fi sound card, hardly an antique, but one that Win7 had no drivers for and Creative , not having heard of Windows7, have done nothing about so there was another disappointment.

I may have to eat my words (thoughts) regarding Creative's past reputations.
Seems they already have Windows 7 drivers for many of their sound cards available right now.
http://support.creative.com/kb/showa...aspx?sid=61105

Again, full support for hardware really is the manufacturers responsibility, not MS (unless it's MS hardware of course ).
The native drivers which are shipped with Windows are generally developed by or with the manufacturer in any case. Manufacturers who don't care to co-operate with MS and gain digital certificates (the rubber stamp of approval) generally aren't interested in legacy hardware support (they have new stuff to push out .

[haakoo]

Don't know yet

I think of a desktopreplacement notebook
This will be the future i think.
(we will in the near future have a complete wireless network in my hometown)
Besides win7 will have a winXP intergrated for usage on notebooks.
Acer will provide its notebooks with a dualboot sytem with Windows and Android,like to see how that will go.

[Soquili]

Hans I thought Android was for mobile phones and similar devices.

[haakoo]

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20090604PD215.html

[Sponsi]

Well.. I've tried 1 beta and this RC build 7100 (I work on XP and 7 RC nearly simultaneously with copies of my documents and other things including software installations on two separate hard disks) and I must say that after initial enthusiasm and "I can't wait until it's out" attitude I have to think more about it.

One thing is that XP is like what... 8 years old? This is hell a lot of time... but it's still solid, up to date and "the most" compatible system at the moment. Besides, I'd rather want my hardware to be "too new" for the system (I have Athlon X2 5600, 4GB RAM, Radeon 4850) rather than "just enough" or slightly above average for this brand new 7. I know XP, I remember everything I need to customise after fresh format and it works OK...

Why move to 7 then?
Well.. 7 is new, which means it has fresh ways for solving old problems. Of course, it's only RC and since I skipped Vista completely, it would be nice to switch over to 7 in the nearest future. Some things are better than in XP but I have some minor problems with the GUI and my old habits. RC is valid for a year more so I guess I have time... and I'm thinking about waiting for Service Pack 1 as it's or it hasn't been a right thing to switch to completely new system (it was like that with Win 2000, with XP and I think it will be like that with 7). But SP 1 will be something around the middle of 2010.. quite a lot of time...

And it would be nice to have a 64-bit system because when it comes to my XP, it's 32-bit and I can't use the whole 4GB of RAM... I'm using Windows 7 RC which is 64-bit so it feels like there's no waste when it comes to my RAM...

I don't know really, I'm still testing and making up my mind. I hope the prices won't be high... Vista is so expensive at the moment due to this crisis scam and exchange rates that I don't know if I want to spend more than reasonable for e.g. 7 home premium... we'll see.

I have an MSI netbook and I guess it will always have XP : )

[pauland]

I have a new machine and have installed Win7 on it and it is working really well. Coming from WinXP I think it's a really great update and one I don't have to pay for until next year. The only niggles I have are that some flash detection seems a bit funky - perhaps because of thee new OS ID, but I'm not sure. Overall a thumbs up and hopefully no going back.

As it happens this coincides with switching from a P4M 2.4Ghz to a dual 2.1 GHz Core 2 Duo - what have I been missing!

Paul

[masque]

I may have to eat my words (thoughts) regarding Creative's past reputations.
Seems they already have Windows 7 drivers for many of their sound cards available right now.
http://support.creative.com/kb/showa...aspx?sid=61105

Again, full support for hardware really is the manufacturers responsibility, not MS (unless it's MS hardware of course ).
The native drivers which are shipped with Windows are generally developed by or with the manufacturer in any case. Manufacturers who don't care to co-operate with MS and gain digital certificates (the rubber stamp of approval) generally aren't interested in legacy hardware support (they have new stuff to push out .

Steve
I've already chewed on mine. Thanks for that link. I don't know why I missed it as I had had a hunt. I think it was the assumption that I wasn't going to find what I wanted. Sound card now working, if I can sort out a scanner and maybe a TV (not vital) I'll be in business.
Back with XP for the moment though.
Derek

[steve.ledger]

OK, I'm up for it Derek

Which scanner do you have??

[pauland]

[ Derek, tell him it's the EpsoCanonMustek 1401b, he'll be searching the web for hours.. ;-) ]

[masque]

OK, I'm up for it Derek

Which scanner do you have??

I have an elderly Mustek scanner as it happens, but this one is a Trust Direct Web Scan 9200 but as the printer has develpoped what might be a terminal problem with the printhead (for some reason more costly to replace than to buy a new printer!!?) I'll probobly go for a printer/scanner option as a replacement if it come to that so don't waste too much time searching on my behalf until I know what I've got to do. I'm asuming that a new scanner/printer combo would be supported.
Having spent a day with Win7 I must admit that whatever else I wouldn't be happy without upgrading (replacing) the entire PC (2 years old Dual Core 2 gig ram etc.) as the difference in performance when moving back to XP is very noticable and I dont know what advantage there is to trying to stay with W7, pretty though it is to look at, I'm not sure what else I'm getting that is a genuine improvement.
Derek