Windows 7 RC Discussion

[war eagle]

Yeah the updated download worked for most things but it gave me lots of error messages. MacDrive didn't work at all so I had to go back to 32bit which worked fine. Like I said before I don't see any difference with the 64bit version speed wise so with only 4GB RAM there isn't much point in messing around with it.

Yea, I should have went down to the 32 bit to use MacDrive instead of reformatting my external HD and losing a few Time Machine back ups. Oh well

 

[Razeus]

Installed the 64-bit. Works great. Leopard is much faster though. I think the Windows menus (Contorl Panel, Start Menu) are a mess and too cluttered. The only issue I had was trying to eject my CD/DVD. I got an error message. I had to go into Leopard and eject the disc from there. However, I tried another DVD and it ejected fine this morning. I have it in sleep mode (closed my Unibody Macbook Pro screen) and we'll see what happens when I open it back up. Overall, works great though and probably their best OS yet. I hope Snow Leopard is on par and surely hope they fix the dock.

 

[Skyldig]

Has anyone gotten the keyboard features (volume and backlight control, eject button ect.) to work in the 64-bit version?

 

[gathart]

Would I switch back to a PC because of Win 7?

From the discussion on this board here it seems that many like very much. Is there then any compelling reason to continue with Apple??

 

[steveza]

From the discussion on this board here it seems that many like very much. Is there then any compelling reason to continue with Apple??

I can't see W7 taking many Mac customers away but it might make the choice a bit more difficult for switchers. I really like W7 and I will encourage my customers to move to it as soon as possible but I still use OS X at home and probably will do for a long time.

 

[theITGuy]

I had been running the W7 Beta...after playing with the RC last nite it does seem snappier...

Cheers.

-J.-

 

[aidricksdad]

So I just tried playing Portal from Steam. All it does is play the intro movie in a small window and then it quits. I'm currently update Half-Life 2 through steam so I don't know how that works but I'm assuming it will be the same result.

Anybody else try Steam on Windows 7?

Empire total war works fine fo me

 

[Macmel]

Just installed it yesterday on my early 2008 MBP. So far it seems faster than Leopard on the same computer. Firefox is also faster and explorer 8 is amazingly fast.
Seriously, this one is on a similar level than Leopard.

 

[bli625]

Is anyone else having difficulty downloading the Windows 7 RC1?
I keep on getting stuck on this page for long amounts of time.

I had it up for an an hour yesterday and then I tried it for another hour. This morning, I had it up for another half hour.

 

[steveza]

Is anyone else having difficulty downloading the Windows 7 RC1?
I keep on getting stuck on this page for long amounts of time.

<snip>

I had it up for an an hour yesterday and then I tried it for another hour. This morning, I had it up for another half hour.

The page it's trying to load is the passport login page. I've just tried it and it loaded in about 10 seconds.

 

[ilovebananas]

Is anyone else having difficulty downloading the Windows 7 RC1?
I keep on getting stuck on this page for long amounts of time.

I had it up for an an hour yesterday and then I tried it for another hour. This morning, I had it up for another half hour.

Use firefox not Safari.

 

[flopticalcube]

I can't see W7 taking many Mac customers away but it might make the choice a bit more difficult for switchers. I really like W7 and I will encourage my customers to move to it as soon as possible but I still use OS X at home and probably will do for a long time.

I agree. Had W7 been more Vista-like I would have probably migrated even more things that I do under Windows to OSX; as it is, its a fine replacement for XP but not for OSX, at least for me.

 

[bli625]

Use firefox not Safari.

Thanks, that solved the problem.

 

[willybeamish]

Yeah, I've had this bug since day of using Windows 7. Don't worry, it's not just you. I just hold "option" when starting up as a quick fix in the meantime.


For those of you running the RC (build 7100), what do you think of it stability-wise? I've been using the x64 7068 build and have found it to be pretty flawless.

I am having the same problem with the Boot Camp partition not showing in the Start Up Disc options in system preferences, but unfortunately I am using the Apple wireless keyboard and holding the option key down doesn't bring up the boot selection screen. Is there anything I can do ... or am I forced to use a USB keyboard for now ?

For the record I have the Wireless Keyboard and Mighty mouse paired and working in Windows 7 ( The keyboard has occasional lag from the first keystroke input but is fine from then )

 

[xavious85]

Has anyone gotten the keyboard features (volume and backlight control, eject button ect.) to work in the 64-bit version?

Yes, install the drivers from your Mac OS Disc

 

[iSlave]

I can't see W7 taking many Mac customers away but it might make the choice a bit more difficult for switchers. I really like W7 and I will encourage my customers to move to it as soon as possible but I still use OS X at home and probably will do for a long time.

It does make the reasons for staying with Apple more difficult to justify. With Apples recent price hikes (in the UK at least), prehistoric specs for the money, and forced design changes (i.e. glossy screens on EVERYTHING bar the 17'' MBP at a further surcharge), it does provide a much more attractive prospect if your not one of the more fanatical Apple followers. Simply put, the more sophisticated, fast and stable Windows gets, the less argument there is for OSX.

 

[macfan881]

im really loving Windows 7 right now and thats hard thing to say since ive been a long mac user ive used windows xp and tried vista for a week unistalled it but windows 7 is so much better faster and better looking. Now the only thing that i think may hurt 7 is the fact that it looks to much like vista and may scare away alot of customers for a while. I plan on upgrading to 7 once it comes out.

 

[ryannazaretian]

Installed the 64-bit. Works great. Leopard is much faster though. I think the Windows menus (Contorl Panel, Start Menu) are a mess and too cluttered. The only issue I had was trying to eject my CD/DVD. I got an error message. I had to go into Leopard and eject the disc from there. However, I tried another DVD and it ejected fine this morning. I have it in sleep mode (closed my Unibody Macbook Pro screen) and we'll see what happens when I open it back up. Overall, works great though and probably their best OS yet. I hope Snow Leopard is on par and surely hope they fix the dock.

I'm having the same problem with ejecting disks...

An error occured while ejecting 'DVD RW Drive (D OFFICE12'.

I had this happen on my install disk, OSX disk, and now the Office 2007 disk.

 

[Skyldig]

I'm having the same problem with ejecting disks...



I had this happen on my install disk, OSX disk, and now the Office 2007 disk.

I have this problem too. It's avtually the last one I have. Any solutions so far anyone?

 

[ryannazaretian]

I have this problem too. It's avtually the last one I have. Any solutions so far anyone?

I haven't really been looking for a solution. I'm having really high DPC latency problems that I'm trying to fix so I can at least listen to music without the pop pop pop. I've tried about everything I know of.

EDIT: I actually think it's iTunes creating the latency on its own. Really weird...

 

[valvehead]

I downloaded both 32 and 64 bit versions. I'm going to try the 64 bit first (even though I only have 2 GB RAM). I have a couple of 64 bit apps that I want to try. I'm off to find a good disk imager to take a snapshot of my XP install...

I haven't really been looking for a solution. I'm having really high DPC latency problems that I'm trying to fix so I can at least listen to music without the pop pop pop. I've tried about everything I know of.

Concerning DPC latency problems (copied from my post in another thread):

Some good information from Timur in these threads:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/614302/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/629209/

More info here:
http://www.rme-audio.de/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=11699#p11699
http://www.gearspace.com/board/1961838-post3.html
http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

In short, the biggest offender is KBDMGR.EXE. I have two shortcuts on my desktop: one to kill the process and one to start it again. In one of the links above (I think it's on the gearslutz link), there is info on how to create a batch file to stop the keyboard manager process.

 

[war eagle]

I must say that web browsing on the Mac >>>>>>>>>>>> Windows 7. My goodness it just seemed laggy as hell compared to browsing on OS X.

 

[Eidorian]

I'm starting to understand the new taskbar and libraries a lot more easily now.

 

[war eagle]

I'm starting to understand the new taskbar and libraries a lot more easily now.

Explain it to me please. This toolbar makes it very annoying to AIM if you are clicking.

 

[ryannazaretian]

I downloaded both 32 and 64 bit versions. I'm going to try the 64 bit first (even though I only have 2 GB RAM). I have a couple of 64 bit apps that I want to try. I'm off to find a good disk imager to take a snapshot of my XP install...



Concerning DPC latency problems (copied from my post in another thread):

Some good information from Timur in these threads:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/614302/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/629209/

More info here:
http://www.rme-audio.de/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=11699#p11699
http://www.gearspace.com/board/1961838-post3.html
http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

In short, the biggest offender is KBDMGR.EXE. I have two shortcuts on my desktop: one to kill the process and one to start it again. In one of the links above (I think it's on the gearslutz link), there is info on how to create a batch file to stop the keyboard manager process.

Yep... I've tried all of that from Timur. I'll look at the other stuff.