GrumbleDook Posted July 28, 2009 Posted July 28, 2009 Just to get back to the unimportant conversation (ie macs or windows) I have found that Windows 7 on all builds I have worked with has only ever crashed once on my MacBookPro, and that was actually when running it on Parallels. Natively (ie via bootCamp) not a problem. The only machine I have had a problem with is an old Tosh and that was mainly due to too little RAM (512) but was fine after bumping it to 1 gig.
tmcd35 Posted July 28, 2009 Posted July 28, 2009 Just to get back to the unimportant conversation (ie macs or windows) I have found that Windows 7 on all builds I have worked with has only ever crashed once on my MacBookPro, and that was actually when running it on Parallels. Natively (ie via bootCamp) not a problem. Well if we're gonna have this conversation then we may as well move the flame war over to Parallels v Fusion (should this now be in the mac or virtualisation forum?). The only time I've had to try Win7 was on VMWare Fusion on my MacBookPro - no probs, quite liked it. Actually looking forward o playing with it properly (there we can keep this thread here - I mentioned Win7 ).
mac_shinobi Posted July 28, 2009 Posted July 28, 2009 Well if we're gonna have this conversation then we may as well move the flame war over to Parallels v Fusion (should this now be in the mac or virtualisation forum?). The only time I've had to try Win7 was on VMWare Fusion on my MacBookPro - no probs, quite liked it. Actually looking forward o playing with it properly (there we can keep this thread here - I mentioned Win7 ). or suns virtual box - I tried windows 7 on vmware fusion and bootcamp fine on both accounts for me
mac_shinobi Posted July 28, 2009 Posted July 28, 2009 Just to get back to the unimportant conversation (ie macs or windows) I have found that Windows 7 on all builds I have worked with has only ever crashed once on my MacBookPro, and that was actually when running it on Parallels. Natively (ie via bootCamp) not a problem. The only machine I have had a problem with is an old Tosh and that was mainly due to too little RAM (512) but was fine after bumping it to 1 gig. I tried the trial of parralels a number of times and have had problems with it - either Im being a numpty ( nothing new there and I was doing something wrong ) or it just sucks and its meant to be able to use boot camp partitions and it was trying to index it or do something and it fell over half way through and then vmware fusion couldnt use the boot camp partition so I just backed up a few files from that partition and started from scratch using vmware fusion
featured_spectre Posted July 28, 2009 Posted July 28, 2009 @Mac_Shinobi: My comment was meant about purchasing a brand new MAC, not the operating system. Sorry for the confusion. @Original Topic: Windows 7 has doen well to cope with the possible billions of combinations. Having spoken to one of the developers via MSDNAA, he told me that they spoke with 95% of manufacturers when it came to windows 7, so that they could have the drivers built in for almost all hardware. There are issues with some, but to date, I have yet to have any.
mac_shinobi Posted July 29, 2009 Posted July 29, 2009 @Mac_Shinobi: My comment was meant about purchasing a brand new MAC, not the operating system. Sorry for the confusion. The brand new macs are more expensive and am not sure if thats down to the new cpu's and the extra amount of RAM that apple are now selling there apple macs with ( because of apple charging extra for more RAM in comparison to say crucial hence the link I posted in my above post )
tmcd35 Posted July 29, 2009 Posted July 29, 2009 @Original Topic: Windows 7 has doen well to cope with the possible billions of combinations. Having spoken to one of the developers via MSDNAA, he told me that they spoke with 95% of manufacturers when it came to windows 7, so that they could have the drivers built in for almost all hardware. There are issues with some, but to date, I have yet to have any. To be perfectly fair to M$ the NT Kernel is pretty rock solid. Certainly XP SP2 never caused me any issues and Win7 is, from what little I've seen, shaping up very well. Of late I think a lot of M$'s problems have come down to feature bloat and overall OS speed - see Vista - It looks as if 7 will address a few of these concerns. Certainly pre NT and Pre BSD (OS X) both OS's (Mac and Windows) where as flacky as hell. Software BSOD (and the mac equivalent) disappeared with the Dos/Windows (Win ME) line (and OS 9). These days a BSOD or a Kernal Panic is likely to be either a driver or more frequently a hardware problem rather than a problem with the underlying OS.
Simcfc73 Posted July 29, 2009 Author Posted July 29, 2009 Just to ignore all the OS vs OS war of words thats being going on.... (why type it, no ones mind will change) I reinstalled XP, I couldn't get the burning to work, there was no graphics card drivers for the 3 cards I have lying about and the on board card and my board didn't have the virtualisation settings required to run the new version of virtualpc which did look interesting. Oh and I got a huge panic when I thought I had messed Sims up
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