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Windows 8 - 26 Oct
| Windows 8, legit | 12% [12] |
| Stick with 7 | 78% [79] |
| Stick with Vista (lol) | 0% [0] |
| Still on XP, and sticking with it | 6% [6] |
| Windows 8, piracy | 4% [4] |
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- Oct 4, 2012 6:14 am GMTi'll stick to WIn 7 for now. i'll wait for it to be out for awhile and get user feedback on how well it is and what are its features. then i' will decide to make the switch from there.
- Oct 4, 2012 6:25 am GMT
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CoolerMaster HAF 932 Advanced Case
Asus P8Z77-V PRO motherboard
Intel Core i5 3470 @ 3.20GHz
Corsair A50 CPU cooler
Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 2GB
Corsair Vengeance 8GB of RAM
Samsung HD103UJ 1TB hard drive (for programs and data)
Seagate Momentus XT 750GB hard drive (for OS and games)
LG BH10LS30 BD writer optical drive
CoolerMaster 1000W PSU
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Samsung S27B550V 27" 1080p LED monitorSticking with W7. I see absolutely no reason to upgrade, the UI is awful and game developers are saying bad things about it.
- Oct 4, 2012 6:42 am GMT3 reasons I'm sticking with W7, I upgraded my Vista to W7 and don't want to put another OS over that and I don't want to reformat. Finally, I'm very happy with Windows 7 and cant think of one thing that needs "fixed" to make my experience better.
- Oct 4, 2012 6:54 am GMT
Yum
Thought I heard you could upgrade for free. Or was that just the beta?
- Oct 4, 2012 7:03 am GMT
Now Playing: Planetside 2 (PC)
While Windows 8 won't be as bad as Vista, I'm sticking with Windows 7 until Windows 8 can prove its worthy of an upgrade. It has a lot of potential with some really good upgrades on the backend, but I'm not sold on the new frontend and graphical API that runs it.
Anybody comparing it to Vista needs to do some homework on why exactly Vista was terrible.
Unless you're buying one of those tablet PCs, I don't see any reason to upgrade a machine from 7 to 8. No reason at all.
- Oct 4, 2012 7:11 am GMT
ANyone who is going to purchase a Mobile OS for a desktop is a moron, at least windows 8 will weed out the idiots from the rest of us lol
- Oct 4, 2012 7:13 am GMT
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While Windows 8 won't be as bad as Vista, I'm sticking with Windows 7 until Windows 8 can prove its worthy of an upgrade. It has a lot of potential with some really good upgrades on the backend, but I'm not sold on the new frontend and graphical API that runs it.
Anybody comparing it to Vista needs to do some homework on why exactly Vista was terrible.
Unless you're buying one of those tablet PCs, I don't see any reason to upgrade a machine from 7 to 8. No reason at all.
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What I understand is Vista was terrible because it was a Memory and Resource Hog.
- Oct 4, 2012 7:20 am GMT
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W8 is a mobile OS; I'll at some point likely own a tablet with W8 but my desktop won't until there is sufficient reason to upgrade.
- Oct 4, 2012 7:41 am GMT
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W7 4 life !
- Oct 4, 2012 8:21 am GMT
l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l
I'm still on XP, but plan on upgrading to 7.
- Oct 4, 2012 8:24 am GMTMeh, I am more than happy with Win7
- Oct 4, 2012 8:26 am GMT
microsoft: evil and hated
apple: evil and loved
not a serparatist anymore, i love canada as much as others canadians.
i hope it flop hard.
- Oct 4, 2012 8:27 am GMT
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What I understand is Vista was terrible because it was a Memory and Resource Hog.
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Windows 7 consumes far more memory.
Windows Vista was "bad" largely due to a completely new driver model that deviated from Windows XP. Most drivers for Vista will work on Windows 7 and Windows 8, since the driver base is the same.
This new change caused most third party hardware makers to create very unstable drivers. Vista suffered from very poorly optimized and crash prone drivers. By th etime Windows 7 came out, the drivers had matured with most product being stable.
Windows Vista and Windows 7 are about the same stability now. Vista is a perfectly fine OS that sank due to problems not with the OS.
- Oct 4, 2012 8:28 am GMT
My rig: Intel i5 2500k | 8GB 2000Mhz RAM | 2x 120GB SSD in RAID 0 | AMD HD 6970 2GB | Asus P8Z68-V LX
Why lol next to Vista? The issues that were once present in Vista are now fixed and it's a stable OS. - Oct 4, 2012 8:29 am GMT
I'm fairly certain not a single person here can mention a negative about Windows 8 that doesn't involve Metro.
And from everything i've seen and used, i've barely ever interacted with Metro. Its replaced the start menu. I cant remember the last time i've actually used the start menu instead of just using the search bar in the start menu (and that hasnt changed with Metro).
- Oct 4, 2012 8:31 am GMT
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Biggest Loser: Chancellor for the PC Games Forum - PS3 Overlord.
He's the critic Gamespot deserves but not the one it needs right now.
And so we'll mod him, because he can take it. Because he's not a hero. He's a chancellor...
A watchful reviewer...
The Biggest Loser
I haven't heard anything good about it so I have no intention of changing, especially since I already shifted from 32 bit to 64 for Windows 7, which i wasn't too happy about.
- Oct 4, 2012 8:31 am GMT
Just give it a try. The performance boost alone is worth the upgrade. My desktop boots in 1-2 seconds. I actually have faster startup times with Win8 on an HDD than Win7 on an SSD.
- Oct 4, 2012 8:33 am GMT
stick with 7, I`m very happy with that windows
- Oct 4, 2012 8:56 am GMT
Nothing I seen of Windows 8 makes me want to switch to it. I'll just stick with 7 until the next OS is released in a couple of years.
- Oct 4, 2012 8:56 am GMT
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my blog: www,pcgamingfan.com (reasons why it's worth to be a pcgamer)
I will get W8 for my laptop, since I've been waiting 10 years for a Windows with excellent tablet interface.
Desktop though...not sure. For now I will propably stick to Windows 7 and will uprade to W8 if some games I want end up being W8-exclusive
