Windows 7 Beta Testing

[Apotheoun]

[quote name='LouisvilleFan' post='1766716' date='Jan 30 2009, 10:49 AM']I'm pretty sure Microsoft charges about $129 for a new OS, same as Apple charges for a new copy of OS X. Maybe it'll go up to $139.[/quote]
[url="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/compare-editions/default.aspx"][u]Windows Vista[/u][/url]

[LouisvilleFan]

[quote name='Theologian in Training' post='1768426' date='Feb 1 2009, 09:50 AM']It is only slow because you are running it virtually. You really cannot get the full effect of the OS until you run it natively. Just create a small partition of about 20gbs, try it out, then delete the partition. I happened to have an extra computer around and dual booted it with Vista (the nightmare OS) and the difference it literally like night and day.[/quote]

No, it ran fine during installation and while playing around with it initially, considering I only have an on-board video card. Then I changed some of the memory settings hoping to improve its performance, but apparently had the opposite effect, probably because VirtualBox is looking for video memory my sistem doesn't have.

[Theologian in Training]

Flexible pricing based on the different versions of Widows 7

[url="http://i.gizmodo.com/5145366/all-the-flavors-of-windows-7-explained"]http://i.gizmodo.com/5145366/all-the-flavo...ows-7-explained[/url]

[LouisvilleFan]

Well, two versions for the industrialized-nation home user.

Seems a lot of the really cool stuff in Windows 7 requires a touch screen, but I hadn't noticed the much-improved calculator with financial functions talked about in one of Gizmodo's articles.