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Old 10-13-2009, 05:57 PM
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You're a student of life, my friend. Maybe they'll give you the discount for that.
c'mon, this is M$ we are talking about... they won't give me a discount unless I can prove I'm a student. How about I trade in my copy of Vista for a Win. 7 disc, since Win. 7 is what Vista should have been.
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Oh, I know. I was only joking. Maybe Jessica could hook you up.

I should read more about Windows 7. I've been happy with Vista, so I don't know what I'd get from upgrading.
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I should read more about Windows 7. I've been happy with Vista, so I don't know what I'd get from upgrading.
You would get quite a bit more performance.

The biggest thing for me was the immense increase in useability over Vista (well Server 2008 in my case).
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Well I was able to score a copy of Win. 7 Pro for $30 via the student deal, should be able to download it tomorrow.
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still waiting for my version windows 7... from what i have seen i will be a happy camper....
Got mine up and running last night, so far I like it, but I'm sure there is still plenty more I have to learn about it. I was in need of a fresh OS install anyway, so this came at the right time.
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I upgraded my HTPC from 32-bit Vista to 32-bit Windows 7 about a week ago. So far, I must say I am amazingly impressed. The OS seems snappy, quick, and the media center software (though similar) seems to run like a champ. Codec install and all that went smoothly, and playback is beautiful.

If you're thinking of making the jump to 7, I can certainly recommend it.
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I just loaded 7 pro on my work computer that had vista which was crashing daily - blue screen... I honestly think it was a driver error with the HP computer that came on it - I have it never seemed to rectify the blue screen problem, but either way, I wanted to start my way into 7 with all the good reports - so far I am pretty happy with how it runs...

Going to be getting ready to get a Nettop to load XBMC on.... there are some really promising looking new box's coming out with ION processing - allowing for a nice quiet small form HTPC.
Good reading there....

Here are some good threads if anyone is interested...... I have never experienced a GUI like XBMC gives.... been running them for 6-7 years now... Nice there are options to upgrade to a more powerful platform now...

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1185529

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I just loaded 7 pro on my work computer that had vista which was crashing daily - blue screen... I honestly think it was a driver error with the HP computer that came on it - I have it never seemed to rectify the blue screen problem, but either way, I wanted to start my way into 7 with all the good reports - so far I am pretty happy with how it runs...

Going to be getting ready to get a Nettop to load XBMC on.... there are some really promising looking new box's coming out with ION processing - allowing for a nice quiet small form HTPC.
Good reading there....

Here are some good threads if anyone is interested...... I have never experienced a GUI like XBMC gives.... been running them for 6-7 years now... Nice there are options to upgrade to a more powerful platform now...

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1185529

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1192604
I'm really looking forward to Tegra from Nvidia.
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What are those all about buddy.....

Looks like they are finalizing all the work to get XBMC running under windows in good fashion without messin around with anything, just load and play....

I can't wait for that, gunna pick up a couple of nettop boxes for each of my setups...
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