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I think the problem I was having is with it running too hot. I'm using a pretty high-powered laptop and it ran hot with Vista until I switched to the classic theme. I switched to a non-Aero theme and it seems to be running a little cooler. I think I prefer the non-Aero anyways, really.

We'll see.
 
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BuckeyeTillIDie;1576956; said:
I jest, I know very little about computers.
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You already said you're a Mac user.

MaxBuck;1577140; said:
Apple's OSX would be really great. Except, none of the shit I need to run on a regular basis will run on any Apple OS; Windows is required. And the Mac versions of most important software (MS Office; Adobe Acrobat) are so minimalized that you might as well just use shareware. Except that Mac shareware is really crappy.

So basically, like Maximus says, OSX is a really pretty paperweight for me. :so:
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Parallels
 
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Just saw the $29.99 upgrade offer they have for college students. I might have to go ahead and do this since I can buy it for a song. I'm not a student, but I work for a university and apparently a functioning university email address is all you need to get a download & payment link. The bells & whistles don't really interest me - I'm pretty happy with the features on Vista and am not entertained by doing quirky gestures to perform an action like the Mac users they the seem to be going after. However I am very interested in the chance to speed things up and reduce the use of system resources which a lot of people are saying this does.
 
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jlb1705;1578227; said:
Just saw the $29.99 upgrade offer they have for college students. I might have to go ahead and do this since I can buy it for a song. I'm not a student, but I work for a university and apparently a functioning university email address is all you need to get a download & payment link. The bells & whistles don't really interest me - I'm pretty happy with the features on Vista and am not entertained by doing quirky gestures to perform an action like the Mac users they the seem to be going after. However I am very interested in the chance to speed things up and reduce the use of system resources which a lot of people are saying this does.
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Do you have a link for that upgrade. I would be willing to fork over $30 USD to check out the upgrade.
 
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jlb1705;1578227; said:
I am very interested in the chance to speed things up and reduce the use of system resources which a lot of people are saying this does.
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Turn off System Restore Points
Turn off Disk Indexing
Turn off Superfetch.

There ya go ... I just saved you $30 (and added three years to the life of your hard drive). :wink2:
 
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Have been preparing a company-wide rollout to Windows 7/Office 2007 (from XP/Office 2003) by testing 7 on various configurations of desktops in the building. Have one installation deployed in my data processing division and have two new PCs deployed to programmers who just wanted brand new hardware and Visual Studio 2007 before everybody else gets it. So far, 7 has gotten rave reviews.

Over the course of my testing, I discovered two things today: Windows 7 can recognize most "unsupported" disk controllers if you grab a WHQL certified Windows Server 2003 driver. Was able to get a system with a Promise 378 RAID controller (ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe mobo's onboard controller) to run 7 using the 2K3 server driver. Second, Windows 7 requires DirectX 9 supported hardware. Any video cards that are certified only up to DirectX 7 (pre-Radeon 9500 or pre-GeForce 6) will only run 1024x768 or lower as basic VGA adapters. If you happen to do something really stupid, such as forceably install the Catalyst packaged driver from AMD/ATI's site to run a Radeon 9250, the system will BSOD at shutdown, and may even be so kind as take the registry with it, requiring a complete wipe/reinstall.

Note to self: Order some newer video cards to replace all those 9250s ... :smash:
 
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