well its looking a lot better than Vista even though its still in Beta; and stuff tends to get tightened up and more efficient just prior RTM. So this should be mountains better than the Vista release. I wouldn't bet on it for old hardware or netbooks though. It's still microsoft ya know. Yeah, Win7 weighs in around 16gig, which is a far cry from the metric ton of Vista. 16gig is still not a flyweight. At one time, I think I had a usable Fedora install around 7-8 gig without trying; don't remember for sure. -j On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:43 AM, keith smith wrote: > > So can we speculate that M$ is making Vista/win7 less resource intensive so > it can compete in the netbook environment. > > I understand it takes up about 10 Gigs of space. > > Would be nice to have an O/S that requires less and is more efficient. > Maybe we can recycle some old hardware :) > > > ------------------------ > Keith Smith > > > > > --- On *Fri, 1/16/09, Josh Coffman * wrote: > > From: Josh Coffman > Subject: Re: OT: Redmond > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 9:59 AM > > > From what I hear, and this is from .Net devs who are running win7, its > described as "Vista without the crap". It performs nearly as fast as WinXP > and with far lighter hardware requirements than Vista. (which isn't hard) > From the screenshots I've seen, it has a lighter look and feel that Vista, > but that's just "make-up". I'm going to make a vmware machine with it so > I'll see for myself. Since it will be on the same machine (mac) as my WinXP > vm (which I do use a lot), I'll be able to compare them easily. > > Vista was a near daily frustration, either I've gotten used to the pain or > its gotten a little less painful. Probably both. I still don't like Vista. I > have to deal with it though. So I hope Win7 is better, a lot better, because > windows a part of my job. > > As an aside, I use Vista, WinXP, and Mac OSX a lot. Ubuntu holds itws own > againts all of them. I've read some people think Win7 is a linux killer > (speaking of the netbook market). I don't buy that at all. > > -j > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Joe Fleming wrote: > >> I'm really curious what all the fuss over windows 7 is all about. I >> mean, it's just vista with a few changes, and from what I can tell those >> changes are pretty small. I always think it's funny seeing sites talk about >> how bad vista is and how much better 7 is, considering it's really nothing >> more than a point release/service pack with a new name. Apparently m$ >> actually DOES know how to play the marketing game. It'll be interesting to >> see how it's received by consumers and the press when it's finally released >> I guess. Me, I still don't have any problem running XP; works beautifully in >> VirtualBox ;). >> >> -Joe >> >> 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... >> >> >> James Finstrom >> Rhino Equipment Corp. >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 >