Are You Upgrading To Windows 7?

[Guest My_Genesis]

Yes, but my college doesnt support it yet, and the on-campus printers (which I use regularly) don't work with 7. And if i had any other probs w/ it, because it's not supported I'd have to work them out on my own (which I normally do lol but if i were to have a major issue - which I normally don't.. )

Also I am debating whether I want to buy a new laptop, i kinda want to have 2 laptops anyway, and I'm somewhat sentimentally attached to the one I have, it was my first laptop (that I chose myself, my uncle gave me one before this but it was old and it was like a "leftover" one.) It's my first true love lol. Dorkiness aside yes I want to ugrade, sometime before January because that's when the $20 offer for college students expires. Otherwise I will save up beyond Jan. and just buy a new laptop.

[Guest Joanna Phipps]

Ive never had a less compatible OS, I have several apps that ran fine on XP but either dont run or dont run well on vista(even in xp compat mode). I will be upgrading this laptop just as soon as I get my copy in, from what I have heard and read it seems to be one of the better upgrades that has happened. For example I have a lovely flatbed photo scanner that will allow me to scan negatives, I cant get vista drivers and vista wont let me install the xp drivers (even from and admin account in xp compat mode).

[Guest Joanna Phipps]

Yes, but my college doesnt support it yet, and the on-campus printers (which I use regularly) don't work with 7. And if i had any other probs w/ it, because it's not supported I'd have to work them out on my own (which I normally do lol but if i were to have a major issue - which I normally don't.. )

Also I am debating whether I want to buy a new laptop, i kinda want to have 2 laptops anyway, and I'm somewhat sentimentally attached to the one I have, it was my first laptop (that I chose myself, my uncle gave me one before this but it was old and it was like a "leftover" one.) It's my first true love lol. Dorkiness aside yes I want to ugrade, sometime before January because that's when the $20 offer for college students expires. Otherwise I will save up beyond Jan. and just buy a new laptop.

do you know the names and model numbers of your school printers? If so go the the printer mfg site and see if they have windows 7 drivers, if not the vista ones should work ok

[Guest Jackson]

Now, I'm not the most technologically-literate person here, so maybe someone can help me decide.

When I went from XP to Vista, I was not happy. I have a Gateway laptop that I would love to convert over from Vista to 7. I loved XP because I could do so many things that I couldn't figure out how to do with Vista. Plus it probably didn't help when Geeksquad set it up for the wrong user and it took me a while to get everything changed so it recognized me as the administrator.

Anyway, I'm just worried about the compatibility with my other products like my iPod touch that I use as a PDA or the XP desktop that I have. I don't do a lot other than work for personal fun use or college use (Microsoft Office 2007).

And I can get it at a good price if I believe someone's other post that I can get it for $40 till the end of the year with a valid university .edu email.

[Sally]

I am familiar with the quirks of XP Pro and I can work around them.

I can still use millennium and everybody hated it!

I am a creature of habit (that should have been in the Halloween costume thread) so I tend to revert back to earlier versions if things get tough.

I have Photoshop Creative Suite 3 and when in trouble I go back to Photoshop 7 because it is so much closer to 5.5 which I learned on.

No upgrades - no extra costs - nothing to learn!

Love ya,

Sally