I've preordered. I've been "evaluating" windows for several years now and have decided it's time to buy and I would be a massive hypocrite if I didn't at this price.

I'm going to resist, I keep buying things lately just because they're cheap and now I'm a bit skint.

The only thing that is stopping preordering is the fact that it requires a clean install. Though I might do that anyway.

Mark. give it 20 mins then try again. They're putting them up in batches to keep an eye on how many are selling.

I want to up my ram to 8gb

Why?

Because my system eats through the 3gb I have and it's a bottleneck.

Doc, will our Macbook Pros get on with this version?

Try loading Crysis Warhead on ultra. Normally you wouldn't see what's actually happening, but thanks to my new Silverstone thing I can watch it now. It's madness.

Also, take a look at what your Nvidia cards are *really* doing to your ram. If they're the 512mb versions EACH ONE will eat 1gb off your ram if it can.

Also remember I do a lot of photoshop and that eats ram.

I've got 4GB in my (new, thanks Friend-of-JohnCoffey) system but XP only recognises 2.5GB. Gnnnngh.

I've got 4GB in my (new, thanks Friend-of-JohnCoffey) system but XP only recognises 2.5GB. Gnnnngh.

Jesus. Doing what? Outside of server workloads I can't imagine what uses more than 3-4Gb.

Glad that all worked out OK Gaz ! did you get the card firing too ?

Got about 5gb occupied at the moment. Shall I open up Motion or Parallels and tip it higher?

Yup, and it's good good. Can play Thief 3 at full settings now, much awesomeness

Treated myself to another monitor too so I've got a dual monitor setup. Was a pain in the ass tracking down a second-hand monitor to match my current (and discontinued) model, but I got one for £80 in the end. Not too shabby.

Oh yeah, I try not to think about you media types. As I suggested above though, even Photoshop monsters don't need super-huge RAM sizes. You fancy movin' pictures people are different though.

Load average of 3 isn't very high across 8 processors. I like that monitoring doodad, which one is it? Also, you have less disk space than I expected to see.

Final Cut just can't use the processors. Now if I fired up Compressor on the other hand, I can. Hopefully Snow Leopard will improve things.

The widget is Istat Pro BTW.

That's quite poor. Video manipulation is inherently fairly easy to. I'd hope that Grand Central in Snow Leopard will help a lot.
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Originally Posted by BBC
The latest version of Microsoft's flagship operating system, Windows 7, is available for pre-order in the UK.

Amazon said that sales of Windows 7 in the first eight hours it was available outstripped those of Windows Vista's entire 17 week pre-order period.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8151342.stm

I feel quite happy about it truth be told. I've paid that much for a good Linux box with real manuals and stuff. And it could be worse, the yanks have been afforded no such deal and pre order prices on amazon usa are $199.99 for the full home premium or $119.99 for the upgrade

I've preordered. I've been "evaluating" windows for several years now and have decided it's time to buy and I would be a massive hypocrite if I didn't at this price.

However if I upgrade my PC with a new motherboard/cpu etc in 3 years time, it won't be a problem reinstalling this will there? I can't find conclusive info on the web and what I have found leans towards it'll be okay but any hard facts are welcome.

And by that you mean they have and it was $50.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2 ... -japan.ars

Behold, you people with dual cores. Behold as Final Cut Pro is rendering flat out but can only harness 20% of the CPU time.



Gah!

Edit: For some reason I thought this box had 8gb. It appears to have 6.