Your PC ready for Windows 7?

[ponder]

I suspect it will run like a dog on my old 5-6yr old 1.4GHz celeron laptop. The price of Win7 will be more than what the laptop is worth anyway so not worth it.

 

[killadoob]

I suspect it will run like a dog on my old 5-6yr old 1.4GHz celeron laptop. The price of Win7 will be more than what the laptop is worth anyway so not worth it.

Well you have not tried it on that notebook have you?

Runs just fine on my ex's celeron, sahara special with 786 memory, runs better than xp as well.

You prolly run ubuntu on there anyhow so i am sure why would even comment on it .

 

[stevovo]

Latest version is compatible with Win 7 and works.

oh I only see now that they updated it

 

[Giarc86]

I'm part of an online institution, ACM to be exact.

Do some research on ACM and IEEE. They have a list of universities that's members and of which departments student has access to the content.

I know UNISA is part of ACM, but the membership is only available to certain departments, for instance IT.

But have a look online, all the info is available.

I have looked into it before I searched for UNISA and got these results:

UNISA School of Computing Computing:End-User Computing Pretoria SOUTH AFRICA Visit Software Center
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA School of Computing Unisa SOUTH AFRICA

I am in the school of computing faculty, so I e-mailed the program manager and got this reply:

hello

Unfortunately direct access to the MSDN site and its resources are restricted to designated employees within the School of Computing only.

We have a very limited number of Windows 7 licenses which will be distributed amongst the School of Computing staff.

T J *** *****

So I gave up lol, as it seems it will only be available to UNISA staff, and students can't apply

 

[ponder]

Well you have not tried it on that notebook have you?

You prolly run ubuntu on there anyhow so i am sure why would even comment on it .

Nope.

Actually Arch Linux + KDE4.3 which is pretty fast.

 

[MrXSpekta]

I have looked into it before I searched for UNISA and got these results:



I am in the school of computing faculty, so I e-mailed the program manager and got this reply:

So I gave up lol, as it seems it will only be available to UNISA staff, and students can't apply

Aaah damn. Bad luck bro. I wonder if my buds over at Tuks had more success?

 

[killadoob]

When all else fails use torrents and nzb's .

 

[Andre]

My only gripe so far is that daemon tools (the free version) does not yet run in win7 x64

Try MagicDisc

 

[Praeses]

Running fine on a Celeron 1.3GHz with 512MB of 100MHz SD RAM
Also fine on my QX6850...who would've guessed?

 

[superfly]

Nope.

Actually Arch Linux + KDE4.3 which is pretty fast.

Yeah, at a guess I'd say my current machine would probably struggle a little with Windows 7 at full effects. Latest Kubuntu works fine though, and my cube is übersmooth!

 

[_TrXtR_]

Doesnt compiz constantly use cpu like a virus scanner?

 

[DJNgoma]

Doesnt compiz constantly use cpu like a virus scanner?

Thought Compiz rendered mainly on the GPU.

 

[ponder]

Doesnt compiz constantly use cpu like a virus scanner?

Kubuntu (KDE) does not use Compiz, it uses Kwin.