Windows 7

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I'm getting a new laptop soon (specs for those that like that sort of thing: Acer Aspire AS7738G, Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000, 4gb Ram, 1TB HDD, nVidia GF GT 240M 1024MB ) anyway it comes with Win7 pre-installed. Now my wife's laptop has it and I can't say I'm a huge fan of it, much prefer XP to be honest. However only serious issues would make me wipe and put XP on it. So I have questions:

Is there any Quake software (level editors, image editors, engines etc) that won't run in Win7?

As an aside, (not Quake related) would there be any advantage in running XP instead (it being less of a resource hog?)
Or would there be disadvantages in running XP; not accessing all the ram etc?

Cheers

[c0burn]

You will be fine. I've had no problems. The only issues you may have are if you run 64bit windows 7 (you should be with 4gb of ram) which can't run 16bit apps (many 32bit apps come with a 16bit installer.... for example, qME.) This is easily resolved by just running the installer on a 32bit machine and copying the %programfiles%\qME folder over to your Windows 7 machine. Or run it on a virtual machine (Windows 7 Pro comes with a free copy of XP which you can run in Virtual PC).

Windows 7 is an excellent OS and I'm sure you'll come to enjoy it. Learn to love the superbar, Win+Num shortcuts to launch pinned tasks, middle click launches a new instance of a pinned task, etc.

With Aero enabled the desktop is very responsive and snappy, and looks good too!

Hope this helps.

[ajay]

Yep, it does help, thanks. It is 64 bit. I'm keeping my current laptop (the one I am on right now in fact) until it dies, so I'll have this with XP on to run installations as you suggest, and I can just whizz them over. Cheers.

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No problems here either and I've been using it since the RC. It's easily the best version of Windows for other computing tasks too, and even though it does use more resources than XP, that's not the full picture - you'll find it a lot more responsive and snappy in day to day use.

One thing to bear in mind when making your decision is that it's getting to the stage when you're going to find it more and more difficult to get XP drivers for newer hardware. We're not quite there yet, but it will happen.

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