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Geek—29 October 2009—2 min read

Windows 7 First Thoughts

Popped along to PC World yesterday and bought a copy of Windows 7 Professional (didn’t seem to be any benefit to going for Ultimate).

Now I was a little apprehensive as I am installing under BootCamp on my Mac, I had XP installed so I backed up my files and the removed my BootCamp partition before starting from scratch.

Installation was rather quick, I was expecting hours, yet inside 30minutes I had my OS X disc in installing drivers.

As much as it pains me to say it, it’s nice. I mean really nice! Easy on the eye and simple to use first impressions are good. I’m still getting a few programs installed so hope they will all work (went for the x64 version). Just downloading the Windows XP Mode which claims to allow older programs to run inside a virtual PC.

I’ll keep you posted!

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