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What are you running Windows for?
Because I can.
And for anything I might need/want it for, like some old games I have.
Because I can.
And for anything I might need/want it for, like some old games I have.
Load on a copy of Battlefield 1942 if you want to have some fun gaming! Do you like 7 on that Pro? Is that 500 GB divided evenly between Windows and OS X?
Thanks for the suggestion.
Actually, Win7 is (so far) my favorite version of Windows. I've used it at work for a long time so I'm not new to it. However, as it was the last version of Windows that Bootcamp 3 supported it's got a few little wrinkles. Took me all day at work to get it on and set up the way I wanted.
I have a 47GB partition for bootcamp. I hate partitioning drives so this is all I would allow myself. Most of what I want to do won't require that much and I use SL way more than this so it works out.
Awwww come on, nothing beats classics like XP or 98!
I grew up using both of those, so they are my two favorite versions of Windows to me, lol. Don't get me wrong, Windows 7 was great, I absolutely loved it. Windows 8/8.1 were both ehh, but I'm back to being happy with Windows 10.
It's really a pattern with Windows...
1.x- Good
2.x- Bad
3.x- Good
95- Bad (it wasn't too bad, but Windows 98 improved a lot on Win95)
98- Good
Me- Bad
XP- Good
Vista- Bad
7- Good
8/8.1- Bad
10- so far, so good
Well…I grew up with BASIC.
My teenage years revolved around the commands for loading apps on the Commodore 64/128 and my 20s was MSDOS 4, 5 and 6 (6.22 was awesome by the way).
I was eventually forced to Win95 when more and more devs started dropping MSDOS (I had some killer AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files).
Win98 was ok, but 95 was plug and pray. But my favorite was actually Windows ME around that time. I never had any issues with it that others had.
I completely skipped Win2000 although it was on all the PCs at work in 2004. XP was great mechanically but it really bored me graphically and about that time I'd switched to OS X (from PCs running either 95/98 or MSDOS).
When the Win7 public beta came out I installed that and was very pleasantly surprised. I like Win10 as well. We won't mention Vista or Win8 - I managed to avoid those at work, save the server which is running a ripoff of Win8 (Win 2012 Server).
So, I guess I have the best of both my worlds. Snow Leopard on one partition and Win 7 on the other. Works for me.
Server admins!
No idea what my job title is any more! Used to have the word Desktop in there a few years ago. Most companies I've worked for went Windows 95 -> Windows 2000 on the desktop.
On my 667 PB running Tiger again....after a day spent wrangling with MintPPC!
Where's NT 3.51, NT4 and 2000?
I was only counting the mainstream versions of Windows... Notice how Windows PE, Windows Phone, Windows Embedded, etc. aren't there either
I was only counting the mainstream versions of Windows... Notice how Windows PE, Windows Phone, Windows Embedded, etc. aren't there either
My point is that Windows 2000 is/was mainstream. I'm differentiating between mainstream and consumer, which 2000 wasn't. My direct experience of working in retail was that after the initial launch there was a steady increase in the number of people buying Windows 2000 retail for home usage, mainly the advanced and pro-sumer customers. The main issue was driver support - the consumer level PCs my employer was selling invariably only had basic inbox driver support. Took them a couple of years to sort that out, by which time they'd put the Luna skin on the OS, incremented the version by 0.1 and da-da - XP!
I wouldn't go that far... Some people actually liked vista, but overall it was just a commercial failure.
It didn't seem that way to me when I first used it back in 2009. Now, lets try to get this thread back on topic, please
Good idea,It didn't seem that way to me when I first used it back in 2009. Now, lets try to get this thread back on topic, please
I'm planning to use this picture as a wallpaper on my 15in once it comes
I'd have to agree with this. I heard all the horror stories and the "I'm a Mac" commercials were great fun, but as a user who completely skipped Vista yet who likes Windows ME I'd have to try it first before making that judgment.
I'll also just point this out. Most of the complaints you heard about Vista were because of the UAC. I heard very little negative in the news about the interface, performance or useability.
Other than the fact that Vista made certain unreasonable demands for installation, confusion as to the difference between "Vista ready" and "Vista compatible" and the UAC - what other category of complaints were there.
All that said however, I'm not about to go run out and try Vista. I've got Win7 already and I really like that version.
Haha thats funny! I used the OS original wallpapers for like 1 week and then got sick of them again. I like the El Cap wallpaper since the case designs of both the Quad and the DLSD, look similar to the early Intel MBPs and the cMP, which can both run El Cap