True Win7 + Vista II I downloaded it too, by the way, there are only 5 different beta keys, if anyone needs one. Getting useful info out of it, is like pulling teeth. I'll keep my windows XP for now. My nick name for Windows 7 is Seven of Nine. Maybe version 9 will be worth getting LOL -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Charles Jones Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:52 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT: Redmond James Finstrom wrote: > I like to imagine it is because I am important or that its because I > went to church with many Microsoft cube gnomes when I lived in > Washington but none of these things are true simply because I am on a > Microsoft Spam list I got an invitation and license to download and > play with Windows 7 beta. So let me share the expierience and overview > so far I like things with the word free even if it is only as in beer > and only for a short time, Anyhow with fear and the smell of danger > that acompanies all things that say Microsoft and Beta in the same > typography I clicked the shiny banner answered a few questions and got > a key + link. the minimum requirements say 1Gig ram and 128M video > and blah blah something something okay whatever click.... Anyhow the > download comes up says this could take several days depending on your > provider and the download size is...... 2.44 GIG holy redhat batman I > need to go buy a dvd to burn this down to, well so much for free. > Anyhow it is chewing up some bandwith that can be better allocated but > I am going to grab it if for nothing else just to see if > http://xkcd.com/528/ is true... My coworker today was complaining that he made a 10GB partition on his macbook pro to test out Windows7Beta, and apparently the 2.4G install disk is very well compressed as when he was done he had like 30MB free :) I'm actually running the beta on my gaming machine and it seems to work okay, but not much different. It's basically Vista++ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss