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Don't miss this year's GITEX Technology Week, the only opportunity to source from over 3,000 suppliers, network with thousands of ICT professionals, see the latest launches such as the exclusive sneak preview of Windows 7 and hear about the hot topics that will ensure your company emerges from these difficult times better equipped to deal with tomorrow's challenges.
What is store for us this GITEX?
How cheap are they gonna sell the items?
Who will be there in this event?
Chocoholic
A sneak preview of Windows 7? LOL half the people I know are already using it! Vista is awful!
Nowadays I hate to say it but I think Gitex is totally overrated, not many great deals about.
Not_Sure
- Chocoholic wrote:
A sneak preview of Windows 7? LOL half the people I know are already using it! Vista is awful!
Nowadays I hate to say it but I think Gitex is totally overrated, not many great deals about.
Vista awful? but Windows 7 nice?
Interesting.....shite sells....quality doesnt...thats why im jobless.
So where does this leave us? For starters, we can now say with some certainty that the Windows 7 build I tested is just a repackaging of Windows Vista. Key processes look and work much like they do under Vista, and preliminary benchmark testing shows that Windows 7 performs right on a par with its predecessor. Frankly, Windows 7 is Vista, at least under the hood; if nothing else, this should translate into excellent backward compatibility with Vista-certified applications and drivers.
Except that it might not. The M3 build of Windows 7 breaks all sorts of things that, frankly, it shouldn't be breaking. Worse still, the suspected source of a major compatibility bump--the neutered UAC prompts--is in fact architectural in nature, one of the few truly new features of Windows 7's secure computing stack.
Windows Vista has permanently eroded the company's reputation among IT decision makers, and from what we've seen of Windows 7 so far, Microsoft still doesn't get it.
Ubuntu vs Vista vs Windows 7
xty
- Chocoholic wrote:
Just get a MAC much better!
not really, depends on what you do. if it's graphics-related stuffs, then Mac is the best.
but even Mac now is based on Intel processor (like PC) and can install Windows on it.
moreover, i still need my applications to run, which some are not available on Mac. so i'm still sticking to Windows.
xty
- godsent wrote:
Thanks XTY that was a comprehensive sell. Appreciate the info.
Sage yes you can get Win XP Professional Pro, inc new SP3 for like 250 dirhams on the BAY. And buy a taiwanese make laptop perhaps for 2500 dirhams which won't be to shabby and will make a decent workhorse. Just check the compatibility with the store keeper prior to purchase.
one thing to see if it's compatible with XP, the harddisk can't be bigger than 160GB or 120GB to be safe, which is still using IDE interface as opposed to >160GB harddisk with SATA interface.
there's a technical trick to make XP supports SATA (only if the laptop's BIOS supports it, most latest laptops don't), but that would be too technical for common users. that is to "inject" (called Slipstream) SATA drivers into XP installation package.
xty
- Not_Sure wrote:
Windows Vista has permanently eroded the company's reputation among IT decision makers, and from what we've seen of Windows 7 so far, Microsoft still doesn't get it.
like vista (a little exception on 64bit version), windows 7 is targeted for common users (home, student, office), not for enterprise.
they'll say who cares about compatibility and huge costs corporates will bear, we're still majority.
janathar
Heard they increased the entry fee this year :!:
xty
GIT...what? *yawn*
Boring stuffs, the same as what you see at the stores, with the same price! There's nothing special?
What so new about Windows 7? Some of my friends had it since months ago. Besides I'm still struggling with Vista (Visual Interface Similar To Apple), bring back XP!!
Common advice on buying any product: never buy version 1.0 (means new model), wait until there's version 1.1, patch, service pack, upgrade, or whatever they call it.
Chocoholic
XTY, that's why they brought out Windows 7! To replace Vista because they know it's crap! You can get a discounted upgrade to 7!
xty
most microsoft products/technologies are just similar than previous version, mostly they just rename it. probably with some cosmetics change. and windows 7 is included, nothing new, based on vista "kernel", so expect the same crappiness like vista ;)
only if ALL my applications I installed (from database to photography, from office to games) will be compatible and only if i had no choice (just like when i bought this HP laptop, stuck with vista, can't downgrade to XP due to some technical issue) then i might think about it. and that would not be in next 3 years until it comes SP1/SP2 or i buy a new laptop again.
What is Windows XP Mode, and who should use it?
Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 gives small- to medium-sized businesses a way to get the benefits of Windows 7 and still use many older Windows XP productivity programs. It uses virtualization technology, such as Windows Virtual PC, to create a Virtual Windows XP environment. That way, you can run your older programs as if you were using a Windows XP-based PC.
that's what i said, XP rules! ;)
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godsent
@ XTY:
Thanks for your input.I take it you are a technical guy in the know-how. Perhaps an IT manager or network adminstrator.
I will be purchasing a notebook and I have already ruled out those Net-books with that under-powered Intel atom crap.
Are you saying I should still stick to XP as the optimal choice for an operating system?
sage & onion
- godsent wrote:
@ XTY:
Thanks for your input.I take it you are a technical guy in the know-how. Perhaps an IT manager or network adminstrator.
I will be purchasing a notebook and I have already ruled out those Net-books with that under-powered Intel atom crap.
Are you saying I should still stick to XP as the optimal choice for an operating system?
Can you purchase any product that is still pre-loaded with XP?
xty
- godsent wrote:
@ XTY:
I will be purchasing a notebook and I have already ruled out those Net-books with that under-powered Intel atom crap.
Are you saying I should still stick to XP as the optimal choice for an operating system?
unfortunately most of new laptops are vista built-in (without CD installation). and unfortunately most of them can't be downgraded to XP (due to lack of SATA drivers on XP, where all new laptops' harddisk are based on). i tried mine with no luck.
if you find some laptops with XP (very few older model) or can be installed separately by CD (and you still have or can find XP retail CD from shops), then go for it. it's clean. make sure you have latest service pack.
personally i don't like netbook. no performance. the screen is too damn small.
but then again, choosing computer/laptop depends on the budget, preference (OS/brand/model/spec), and purpose (office, gaming, graphics, database, etc). what's yours?
godsent
Thanks XTY that was a comprehensive sell. Appreciate the info.
Sage yes you can get Win XP Professional Pro, inc new SP3 for like 250 dirhams on the BAY. And buy a taiwanese make laptop perhaps for 2500 dirhams which won't be to shabby and will make a decent workhorse. Just check the compatibility with the store keeper prior to purchase.
Chocoholic
Just get a MAC much better!
rudeboy
i wonder if these guys will be at GITEX??
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