Win 7 32 and 64 bit dual boot, soon to be triple boot with Ubuntu

Why dual-boot Win 32 and 64? I've not found anything 32 that won't play nicely on 64...........yet.

ETKA doesn't play nice :(

We got a tech shed for our apple v's windows threads

I'll move your posts there fanboy ......

Who's a fanboy?

Why dual-boot Win 32 and 64? I've not found anything 32 that won't play nicely on 64...........yet.

long story but essentially, I bought Win7 32 as a download upgrade from XP back in Oct 09 when it was released, then I bought a new mobo and decided to use it's 8Gb of ram, only 32bit flavour sees and can use 3.5Gb of ram, so I bought another upgrade download from Digital River of the 64bit flavour. I just kept the old 32 bit on and decided as I had 1Tb of HDD to leave it and dual boot. Got the latest Ubuntu the other day and putting that on and might use the installer on that to kick off Win7 32 and dual boot it or keep all three and triple boot. Simples!

Who's a fanboy?

You are lol

With your fruit based tat ....

Sorry I have to do this, but its the law, Babs will be along to mock you further soon

Home Laptop Win 7 Home Premium 64

Home Desktop Win 7 Pro 64

Home Server WHS2011

Work Laptop Win 7 Pro 64

Other Work Laptop Win XP (the one I keep because its got a serial port)

Work Desktop Win 7 Pro 64

Phone IOS

iPad IOS

Kindle Android

Our main PC - Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) with Virtualbox so I can run XP (for my Acrobat Standard) & 7 (cos it came with the PC) - runs all 3 at same time - why dual boot?

Her Laptop - W7 at moment

My Netbook - Linux Mint

Old PC - XP Media Centre

I don't like the OS/hardware tie-in with Apple.

Oh yeah ....

Everything on Win 7 32 and 64

Phone on Android

I'm with SB on the apple thing, plus the fact I couldn't handle the smug lol

long story but essentially, I bought Win7 32 as a download upgrade from XP back in Oct 09 when it was released, then I bought a new mobo and decided to use it's 8Gb of ram, only 32bit flavour sees and can use 3.5Gb of ram, so I bought another upgrade download from Digital River of the 64bit flavour. I just kept the old 32 bit on and decided as I had 1Tb of HDD to leave it and dual boot. Got the latest Ubuntu the other day and putting that on and might use the installer on that to kick off Win7 32 and dual boot it or keep all three and triple boot. Simples!

Ah. okies. Hmmmm, so you bought 2 copies of 7 though! The key is just a license for "Windows 7", it works on both 32 & 64 (quite legit too - the retail boxes were coming with both DVDs and only 1 key) If you have 2 licenses you could use one another PC (Home Theater maybe?) or if you *really* want to keep the 32bit one, run it as a virtual insde the 64bit one ;)

Ah. okies. Hmmmm, so you bought 2 copies of 7 though! The key is just a license for "Windows 7", it works on both 32 & 64 (quite legit too - the retail boxes were coming with both DVDs and only 1 key) If you have 2 licenses you could use one another PC (Home Theater maybe?) or if you *really* want to keep the 32bit one, run it as a virtual insde the 64bit one ;)

I didn't know that the key would work on both versions so thanks The first download I had didn't have the option to burn an ISO, so it installed on top of my old XP, and back then I didn't need the extra ram. Second time round last november I did make sure I checked the box for an ISO rather than the install 'over the air' if you get my drift? Both versions of the setup files are now stored externally should I need to reinstall again. The only virtual I want back is XP, which I might do again in a week or two

None of the above!

PCs/laptops run Ubuntu (Debian + shiny stuff), servers run stock Debian and the phone is a Nokia N900 which runs Maemo Linux (at the time developed by Intel & Nokia) which is basically Debian on ARM + shiny stuff. You might spot a theme developing...

I was very disappointed Maemo died with the N900 (which to be fair was Nokia's excellent work, Intel joined in later with Meego) it makes IOS and Android feel so basic as its window manager was much more advanced and the widget system superb. Also i liked that you rooted the phone by typing 'root' and nothing was hidden allowing to you dive in as you wanted although you didn't have to it, it still worked well out of the box. The aging hardware and Nokia dropping the platform meant I moved onto Android but I still marvel at how much more advanced Maemo was despite being much older.

Most of my computers run various versions of Windows as it works well for my use and it has the software support for the slightly more exotic hardware configurations.

John

Win2k was brilliant!

Have to say that Win2K is so far my favourite OS from Micro****e. Unfortunately, things move on and support does not, but I liked the no nonsense way the OS worked and the long up time stability was absolutely excellent in its day. Had customer machines on that OS running for more than 12 months at a time non stop on a regular basis. Have to say that I never had any bother with the much maligned Vista and W7 works fine for me too. 95, and XP where turds, 98 worked ok ish, ME had some excellent DRM negating features but was less than stable on most machines.

The choice of OS depends entirely on what you want to use it for. Win7 64 bit for example, works fine with everything exept my old but still excellent Epson Perfection 3200 Photo scanner. Cannot find an effective driver for the neg scanning side.

I like Ubuntu, particulalry on small hardware stuff where resources are limited.

Apple OSs are good on Apple machines, can be run on others with specialist knowledge, but will never support the vast range of hardware that Windows does.

The other consideration is that everyone has a preference for their own reasons. There was a time when Apple machines and OSs where better than PCs, particularly in the graphics industry. The machines carried a big premium in price terms, but it was worth it. That advantage ended 12 years or more ago, but the machines still carry the premium. The OSs are all as good as each other in most repects. Choose the one that suits you.

Chris

PC- WIN 7/64 ,XP PRO ( can't find drivers for my old Apple laser printer) ,and Win2k ( I love old OS,would have win 98 FE ,but man in motherboard ,he say no, and MB maker says Win2k no drivers,but it works ok). Laptop Win2k( well it's a steam driven one ).

Tried Linux, but it's foreign ( to me ).

Win 7- at last after several duds,MS seemed to have got it right.

Apple OSs are good on Apple machines, can be run on others with specialist knowledge, but will never support the vast range of hardware that Windows does.

When Steve returned to Apple, one of the first things he did was to withdraw OS licensing to other manufacturers. This reason IMHO is why Apple took years to catch up in terms of volume. Apple need to be less anal about the cost of licensing and approval..........well, about cost in general. If you could have a proper Apple, at a price comparable to (for example) an HP laptop running 7 and proper support for 3rd party hardware, they'd probably bury Microsoft in a year or two.

Win 7- at last after several duds,MS seemed to have got it right.

Hold that thought and don't look at Windows 8

(8 Should be called Windows Dyson, because it really does suck!)

Hmmm, Windows Neptune: it would have been nice to see that complete development and hit the shelves........

Anything NOT powered by Apple.

I actually had a Neptune disc back in the day. I'm told only a handful of them were leaked. I managed to get build 5111 run reasonably well on one of my older machines. I'm quite fond of it actually.

If you could have a proper Apple, at a price comparable to (for example) an HP laptop running 7 and proper support for 3rd party hardware, they'd probably bury Microsoft in a year or two.

The problem is that as you start to relinquish control of what you're selling, you lose the ability to guarantee that everything will "just work" which is one of the Mac's (very few ) selling points. If it didn't, I wonder how much more popular it would be if it was priced the same as WIndows 7.

Interestingly, if you look at the bigger server market, they use the same model as Apple and make the hardware and OS (and a large number of applications) so that it's a complete solution, delivered, fully tested, that will just work. Costings suggest that in business it's cheaper long term to follow this model than buy cheap and have more downtime tuning/fixing.

Chris

The problem is that as you start to relinquish control of what you're selling, you lose the ability to guarantee that everything will "just work" which is one of the Mac's (very few ) selling points. If it didn't, I wonder how much more popular it would be if it was priced the same as WIndows 7.

I'm not saying they have to relinquish control.....just not be so damned expensive about it. All the testing on the apps can stay, and (for the most part) only allow approved apps, but does it need to cost that much?

Home pc windows 7

Work laptop xp professional

Mobile android something or other

Kindle no idea!

Don't really care what the os is so long as it works !

Windows 2003 EE (XP on steroids)

Windows 2008 is just wrong

If you thought they'd done a good job at hiding stuff in Windows 7, 2008 takes this to a new level

Apple OSs are good on Apple machines, can be run on others with specialist knowledge, but will never support the vast range of hardware that Windows does.

IMO its not the hardware that stop Apple becoming a useable to a wide range of professionals, its the lack of software.

For many professions there is simplely no software available on the Apple platform.

Home Laptop - Windows 7 32bit

Phone - Android

I don't like the Apple image, the fayboyism or the price so I'll be sticking with what I know works for now. Never had any major problems with either tbh

Hmmm, Windows Neptune: it would have been nice to see that complete development and hit the shelves........

I still have a copy of Microsoft OS/2 kicking around (also got a copy of the later IBM OS/2)

I like the Apple products, well designed and superb looking and build quality, I don't like the elitism among the Apple 'Fanboys' this is the ideal platform for the 'if it isn't made by apple it's rubbish' types to revel in their own misplaced superiority!

I have a Dell XPS 15Z running Windows 7 yes its very similar in appearance to a MBP but its light, powerful and has a cracking spec for the money, given it needs to talk to our works servers it had to be windows!!

Andriod SGS2 NOT running ICS, nor will it ever!

Old Dell D830 running XP.

Desktop 24inch iMac

Portable device iPad

Phone iPhone

I love them because they integrate soooo well together, especially with technology like iCloud.

Windows is great, but Apple is in my opinion just so much 'fresher and more exciting to use' if that makes sense.

Would I ever reconsider windows, with the advent of Windows 8 and a lack of cash if that was a factor also, then yes................but it would be with a heavy heart :'(