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    P-7811FX and Windows 7?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by MedievalZeus, Jan 12, 2009.

  1. MedievalZeus

    MedievalZeus Notebook Consultant

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    .. Has anyone tried it yet to see about compatibility issues?
     
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  2. iaTa

    iaTa Do Not Feed

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    Do you really need to start another thread?
     
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  3. MedievalZeus

    MedievalZeus Notebook Consultant

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    I tried looking for one.. I didn't see it. Maybe you could point me in the right direction?
     
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    iaTa Do Not Feed

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  5. MedievalZeus

    MedievalZeus Notebook Consultant

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    I'm guessing the 6860fx and the p-7811fx are the same laptops?
     
    MedievalZeus, Jan 12, 2009
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  6. RobbyMA

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    yes... this is a great title... I vote for it.

     
    RobbyMA, Jan 12, 2009
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  7. MedievalZeus

    MedievalZeus Notebook Consultant

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    God forbid.. where did all the originals of this forum go? E-Wrecked & focusfre4k, I'm looking at you.

    These new kids are less exciting.
     
    MedievalZeus, Jan 12, 2009
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    Diablo Metalhead

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    forum original!?!!?? lmao....im gonna leave that one alone. anyways, e-wrecked posts every so often, but has since sold his 7811 and bought an OCZ whitebook instead. johnksss sold his 7811 and bought a sager. and i hardly see focus fre4k around.
     
    Diablo, Jan 12, 2009
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  9. Mormegil83

    Mormegil83 I Love Lamp.

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    and dook... haha
     
    Mormegil83, Jan 14, 2009
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  10. goodspeed(TPF)

    goodspeed(TPF) Notebook Deity

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    What's a dook? Izzat greek or something? :confused:
     
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  11. Mimino

    Mimino Notebook Communist

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    that was a local gateway member, but had some series of unfortunate events *supposedly* happen to him.
     
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  12. Misconduct

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    My advice is to get rid of windows 7, do not bother with it while in beta. I managed to read the TOS (terms of service, ya know that stuff you have to accept before installing)

    Yeah - not worth installing since everything you do is recorded and sent to microsoft. Secondly if they hit the panic button you won't have an OS. They can terminate the beta on a mouse click.
     
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  13. flynnaz

    flynnaz I am a Night Elf Mohawk!

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    Windows 7 is a good secondary/tinker around with os, I really could care less if Microsoft records system information or problems I have with it, that's why its a beta, we help them try to not repeat another Vista Launch.
     
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    Beta is testing and without feedback there would be no improvement. They collect nothing individually identifiable. In other words, MS needs the crash reports and other info but is not keeping a file on *you*.
     
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  15. azianai

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    and just note, previously beta testers for vista were given a free copy of vista
    not saying it'll happen, just keep it in mind =)
     
    azianai, Jan 15, 2009
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    I have been playing around with it and have not had any big issues. Other than the trackpad and GPU I am just using the default drivers and everything seems to be working fine. Even the wifi had a stock driver that worked on initial boot. The only thing I have not tried is the media reader. I like how the new task bar works but no the aesthetics but that should be able to be skinned easily enough. I like the gadgets being able to be moved around and being able to make all screens transperent. Its all pretty slick. But IMHO I don't think they should be charging for a full OS on it, or at least make it a heavily discounted upgrade for Vista users. It really is Vista SP2.
     
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  17. Narukari

    Narukari Notebook Geek

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    If Vista and XP had a child, it would be Windows 7.

    I have loved everything about Windows 7 so far. It has many of the new features I liked about Vista, and all the power that I got with XP. I never upgraded to Vista since the hit I took to my performance was way too high for just an operating system.

    When I tested Win7, I was booting faster than I even did with XP installed, and my fps in all my games stayed about the same, just a few frames dropped in a couple games. Win7 just isn't the resource hog that kept me from going to Vista.

    Raid support is much better in Win7 as well. All of my loading times on games got noticeably shorter when I switched from XP to Win7. It's also helpful that I don't have to slipstream anymore drivers to be able to reformat my raid configuration.

    I was even able to install Win7 on my 1.6ghz Atom 1GB ram netbook. I actually get more battery life than I got with xp. 5 hours to about 5.5 hours. Win7 is really good at turning off unused processes and unused hardware to conserve power.

    Another thing that was a nice plus is that Windows Media Player comes with many more video codecs than it previously did. It has supported every video I have downloaded so far. Some people might still use other applications, but I was able to just use Windows Media Player instead of downloading VLC for my video needs.
     
    Narukari, Jan 15, 2009
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