Comments on: It’s Windows 7 Day: Are We the Early Adopters?

By: Macmd

Macmd — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:25:48 +0000

The interesting thing is that old media think it’s still Windoze against Mac OS. I run Mac OS with a virtual machine, for free, because it’s open source….Yes winblows 7 is good becuase you can strip it bare and run it in a VM. That’s why it’s good. Period. Otherwise I can run Fedora and Sun Virtual box but you know what it’s just not as beutiful.

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:05:44 +0000

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:33:40 +0000

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:32:42 +0000

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By: bassman

bassman — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:01:44 +0000

I use a macbook pro for garageband mixdowns of live music files from my band, adding between song dialogue to make a podcast. Prior to 2006 I was always a PC guy. Bought the Mac when i got sick of windows crashing. Still use WIndows 2000 at work though. Now it is three years later and I am really wrestling with dropping $2K for a decent macbook pro with the gear I need to progress in my recording work, our dropping about $800 for a similarly outfitted PC version (+ new software and learning that). big reasons for waiting were 1) I figured that Apple would role out something new at the same time and I really really didn’t want to buy a new laptop and then have it outdated in two months & 2) I really didn’t want the hassle of having to upgrade a pc to WIndows 7. I’ve been reading reviews today for Windows 7 and have read the reviews of Snow Leopard. WHile I know the “guts ” of windows, I have been pretty much clueless about the guts of the mac. This is because I haven’t had any problems with my mac in the three years I have had it (other than a limited amount of RAM and HDD space). I can’t say that about my PCs. So I will end up dishing out $2K and getting a mac. BUT I am also going to dish out $400 and get a netbook pc in a month or so once they have figured out if windows 7 works on them. Wish apple would make a $400 netbook….

By: pgoff

pgoff — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:06:05 +0000

Although I would agree that apple users that are running windows are by nature more likely to be early adopters, I think there is another reason that you may not be seeing so many PC users rushing to adopt. Most apple users running windows are using windows for a few specific programs (games, MS office, etc). If they run into a problem with windows 7 they are not completely hosed. However, for PC users, if they run into problems with windows 7 they are hosed. Therefore, PC users are naturally more conservative on upgrading.

By: elearn

elearn — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:42:11 +0000

I just installed windows 7 professional 32 bit in parallels workstation 4 over windows xp 64. It took about 5 hours, including downloading the installer. It was a bit of a pain early on because microsoft’s instructions didn’t mention things like unpacking the downloaded file; I also had to clean off 12 GB of space before the installer would proceed. Another hang-up was the lack of a second drive on my macbook pro for saving whatever user files the installer thinks I needed to save; I was a little surprised by this because I thought going from windows xp 64 to windows 7 32 meant my drive would get wiped. I bummed a flash drive from a neighbor and the installer was happy.

My next step is getting a copy of parallel’s tools that’s compatible with windows 7. Oh yeah, and installing all the applications that got wiped.