So i just installed Windows 7 RC on my Dell Laptop..............

[Ralphie]

via USB. HA. It was fun. First time installing and OS via USB.

Just wanted to share.

Im running it on a Dell Inspiron 5100 with 512ram and a pentium 4. Its running pretty fucking good for an old pos laptop.

[manny_turbo]

hmmmm...this is gonna be on my to do list

[Losiracer2]

you think i would be better off getting a new laptop w/ windows 7? or loading it on my inspiron 6000 which is 5 yrs old? I have the funds for a new laptop but i'm just waiting til black friday to see what kind of deals i can get

[bcjammerx]

it's supposed to run faster than vista...not suck your memory as much that is.

[Losiracer2]

it's supposed to run faster than vista...not suck your memory as much that is.

well i've got XP still lol

[Pandemic]

via USB? How do you mean? USB DVD ROM?

[Julianachos]

I need to cop Windows 7.

[verothacamaro]

I tried Windows 7 the other day for the first time.

Very responsive and still sticks to the intuitive basics of Windows which I enjoy.

The laptop that 7 was installed on cost abour $800 at Best Buy, whereas 3 ailes down I spotted a cute Macbook selling for an astronomical $2500. $2500!!!!!!!

[Ralphie]

you think i would be better off getting a new laptop w/ windows 7? or loading it on my inspiron 6000 which is 5 yrs old? I have the funds for a new laptop but i'm just waiting til black friday to see what kind of deals i can get

Id say save up some more and find a deal.

Im actually not keeping this Dell, im getting an Acer Netbook in the winter with Windows 7 preinstalled. I just installed it on this laptop to make sure i like it by the time the netbook is in stock.

via USB? How do you mean? USB DVD ROM?

No via USB. A 4Gig SDcard to be exact. I used it in conjunction with a USB sdcard reader. I had to open cmd prompt and format the sdcard and then set an active partition and finally flash the bootsect from the cdrom over to the usbcard so it would run correctly at startup. Actually not hard at all just slightly time consuming compared to throwing a cd in the drive and rebooting lol.

[deevergote]

This is how I'd have to do it on my Netbook if I wanted to upgrade. Of course, I bought a refurbished netbook on purpose, so I would have XP on it.

I'm going to wait a bit to even consider putting 7 on anything. I absolutely despised Vista... Hell, I didn't even want to change from win2k to XP!

[tear2wo]

i bought my computer brand new and im suppose to recieve the WINDOWS 7 copy for free. but i lost the receipt and ive been too lazy to go talk to the manager about finding the receipt for me (i know the day i bought the computer n time).

is it worth all the trouble for me?

[Tippey764]

it's supposed to run faster than vista...not suck your memory as much that is.

I dont think it uses less ram at all. I just think that it dosent use alot more, like when people moved from XP to vista. Vista used 4 times as much as XP. Windows 7 dosent seem to use any more then vista to me.

[JoshM]

I really want to try out W7. I've been wanting to upgrade to it, but I actually like Vista. lol

[foamypirate]

I dont think it uses less ram at all. I just think that it dosent use alot more, like when people moved from XP to vista. Vista used 4 times as much as XP. Windows 7 dosent seem to use any more then vista to me.

One of the specific improvements for Windows 7 was better memory management, and only using memory for active windows. So yes, it uses less memory than Vista.

Oh, and on a side note, I just formatted my laptop that had Windows 7 RC installed, and put Ubuntu 9.10 on it, haha.

[Ander]

I'm surprised at the low system requirements for W7.

I installed it on a few GX240's at work with only 512mb of RAM and a Pentium 4, and it runs great.