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So I threw windows 7 on my 2½ year old vaio notebook to try it out. When I was installing it, I had accidentally clicked past the cd key screen. What's surprising, especially for an MS product, is that it let me continue installing without entering a cd key. In fact, it's still running and I've never put in the key that they gave me.

The only issue I've run across so far, is that any video driver that I've tried to use, both from the windows update site and the 32bit vista driver from the sony site, lock up the pc when I try to full-screen a video. But, the default vga driver works ok, except that the picture quality in videos isn't that good, and when there is high motion scenes it kinda skips. But, being beta and only a driver issue, that's no big deal.

It runs pretty smooth on my pc, 1.73Ghz centrino with 1GB memory, with all the default eye candy on. The workgroup file browsing actually seems to be a bit faster than what it was in xp, so that was pretty cool.

I'm not sure if it's just a setting I haven't found yet, but it seems as if standby and hibernation mode are disabled in the beta.

The show desktop button is in a nice place, in the bottom right corner of the screen. I'm not sure how it was in vista. But having it in the corner like that makes it really easy to hit the button quickly.



How do you like the w7 beta so far?

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