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| Junior Member Posts: 22 Join Date: Oct 2008 |  Windows 7 -
01-08-2009, 01:12 PM
Anyone tried to run Windows 7 beta yet? |
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| Member Posts: 93 Join Date: Oct 2008 | Re: Windows 7 -
01-08-2009, 01:42 PM
Yes. See the Vista forums here. ~jeff |
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| Super Moderator  Posts: 5,774 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: New Hampshire | Re: Windows 7 -
01-08-2009, 11:29 PM
Public beta starts tomorrow. MSDN users can download today (mine is in progress). Mini 9|2GB RAM|64GB RunCore|Intel 5300|Windows 8 |
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| Junior Member Posts: 22 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Fort Worth, TX | Re: Windows 7 -
01-09-2009, 05:22 PM
Yep. It runs great on Windows 7. I did have to get the JMicron Vista driver for the SD controller. The Windows 7 driver was loading but not working properly. Otherwise it seemed to worked well. |
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| Member Posts: 83 Join Date: Dec 2008 | Re: Windows 7 -
01-09-2009, 06:22 PM
What size drive are you installing it on? I plan to install it this weekend and have the 16 gig ssd, and am curious how much free space I'll have left when its all said and done. |
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| Junior Member Posts: 22 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Fort Worth, TX | Re: Windows 7 -
01-09-2009, 07:42 PM
I installed on the 64GB runcore. After installing OS I installed: Anti-virus Office 2007 Online poker software - hehe Drivers for SD controller and Synaptics mousepad Safari - IE8 does not work with my online banking since its beta Roxio Creator Basic 9 Cyberlink DVD Dell Webcam Adobe flash/reader I have default options for pagefile and hybernation file and restore points (these alone are taking ~4GB) So after all of that I am using 12.6GB of disk space. |
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| Junior Member Posts: 11 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Washington | Re: Windows 7 -
01-09-2009, 07:58 PM
To give you a straight forward answer - The iso is 3.5GB The install will consume 13GB on it's own - so it's out of the question for 8GB SSD's, and pushing it on a 16GB. Time to get a 32GB SSD from Runcore. |
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| Member Posts: 93 Join Date: Oct 2008 | Re: Windows 7 -
01-09-2009, 08:08 PM
Suggest moving this discussion to the Windows 7 forum. ~jeff |
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| Member Posts: 35 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: San Francisco | Re: Windows 7 -
01-09-2009, 08:30 PM
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And I agree with Jeff, this threa is better served in the proper forum. | |
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