As a uni student i can get windows 7 for £30, is it worth getting ether to use or to save for a future build?

I would say yes.I am Getting 2 copies that I preordered for £45 each,to be used in future builds.They are retail copies though,and I think the student copies are a sort 'OEM'.Not sure on that though.

Emphatic YES, windows 7 is the best bit of code to come out of Redmond for many years.

+1!!!!

By all accounts Redmond finally got this one right. Smaller footprint, doesn't gunk up your machine as much as Vista and will breathe life into older machines as it's the first operating system they've introduced that uses LESS resources rather than requiring more. I give it a guarded thumbs up until I've had time to really test what it does to gaming.

Da Worfster

PS I scored a pre-release final from my IT department so I'm not just...

Blowing smoke.

Da Worfster

Well, running the test on my pc shows that i could not run it. But i think ill get it for a future build.

YES!Also Ive read of people running it on ANCIENT laptops,so even if youre losing out on the fancy colours etc it might still run.

I had issues with the 64 bit edition not being able to install many of the Asus drivers for the Asus mobo I have. I went to the Asus website and downloaded what were supposed to be 64 bit drivers and useful utilities that were allegedly able to work with Win 7 but I could not get them to work.

Basically I'm going to wait a year to make sure the drivers and other stuff is all sorted out. But if you are more interested in 32 bit then you'll probably have no issues. You might even like the basic interface, although I didn't like it much. If you're use to XP you might have a steep learning curve. But if you've had Vista, maybe not.

Windows 7 ran perfectly fine on my old rig also, booted up way faster than it did with XP.
(never could run Vista on it because it did not come with the needed drivers for the nForce 2 Ultra 400 chipset)

b2spirita, check with your uni's IT department if they have any courses that would provide you with an academic version of Windows 7. I don't know if they still have those, but for previous versions of Windows they did. Academic versions have no limit on the number of machines you can install them on. Depending on the software you own it might be wise to go with the x86 version. x64 will require special drivers and special x64 versions of software in many cases.
It is very rare you would need more than the4GB memory that the x86 versions can address.
Win7 is worth the 30 pounds, although IMHO Ubuntu is a lot better operating system. 9.10 final will be released soon, and at 0.0 cost Windoze can never beat it. Even though Windows 7 is a LOT better than Vista, Linux is the superior technology. faster, more stable, more secure and easier on resources. The problem is Windows is supported by most companies while Linux is not, although this situation is improving with every month that goes by.

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