Originally posted by: SickBeast
Originally posted by: Modelworks
Originally posted by: VinDSL
Originally posted by: evident
7 is coming out too soon...
'7' is supposedly coming out in January 2010 (historically with delays) the last I heard...
There's NO way I'd wait until the first-quarter of 2010 for a stripped down, optimized version of Vista when you can get a full version of Vista x64 for under 100 bones today!
But, that's just me...
Windows 7 is going to be RTM around August 2009.
RC1 is scheduled for around April 2009.
Absolutely no reason to pay out for vista now.
The free beta runs great right now, and I would say you could use it for your main OS provided that you're not doing anything mission-critical.
I would say its runs ok but not great ,try installing PowerStrip you can't even boot back into WINDOWS without rolling back to last known safe config ,you just get nice scrambled image at destop,BSOD with SuperAntiSpyware to name a few,as to installation half my hardware was not detected like well known NIC Netgear FA311 card,I had to force drivers for that,wireless belkin NIC to name a few yet people say it runs great?...Its beta SO EXPECT ISSUES AND USE WITH CAUTION,to be fair I don't blame Win7 because its beta and not a retail or RTM candidate plus it does have software issues at the moment like above ,I would not however says its runs great or perfect,btw yesterday I launched it and it froze(hard lockup at desktop) on inital bootup for that day,2nd reboot it seemed ok (had XP on this machine before and it never did that,was a clean install btw too).
If anybody has tried an old 9700 ATI card in analogue mode and can get it to run in native res 1680x1050 res on a LCD with Win7 beta please let me know since I still can't,tried every possible driver and monitor inf file(worked ok on XP with same LCD).
At the moment you can see I have honest concerns/issues with Win7 Beta(32 bit version).
Back to the main question $179 for Vista hmm no I would not pay that for any OS,I'm sure you can get it cheaper then that.