Tuesday, May 5, 2009

taking Windows 7 RC for a spin

I got the Windows 7 Release Candidate Customer Preview Program.

One of the reasons I am interested is because it supports Blu-ray and avchd video files. I also look forward to seeing how it works with netbooks, but that's a project for the future at the moment.

I downloaded the DVD iso and burned with no problem. I used Firefox to d/l and burned on my ubuntu 8.04 workstation. It went smooth.

The instructions say you need a PC with these system requirements:
  1. 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
  2. 1 GB RAM (32-bit) / 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
  3. 16 GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20 GB (64-bit)
  4. DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
I fought with the install, it was not as easy as a I find Linux. I'll document the issues in a comment below or in anouther post. The PC I installed on had 512Mb. It is running but it rebooted every 10-20 minutes or so at first. I'll bump the memory up to 1GB and see if that helps. I'm currently using the Windows Media Center it comes with to a Sony PS3 and that is working well. I like what I see.

The desktop is pretty. I have not done a lot with it yet, but look forward to getting some hands on once my copy is more stable.

Now to install more memory. :-)

Gary
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  1. GaryMay 7, 2009 at 5:50 AM

    I copied some video files (*.m2ts) to the media center, made the stream visible to the local network and was able to view the video on our Sony PS3. I then copied the video files with the media center over to the PS3, saved them to a USB drive and moved them to another computer (XP).

    I have not been able to upload .m2ts to YouTube recently but was able to upload the files Windows 7 converted to .mpg. :-D

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  2. GaryMay 13, 2009 at 8:38 AM

    The install did not go as smooth as a linux install nowdays. The big 'problem' I had was it hung the first time (I did not have a network cable plugged in) and I found it easier to reload by installing ubuntu then installing Windows 7 again to get it to format the disk correctly.

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