Get Windows 7 on Your Netbook in a Half-Hour

Bigguy <> wrote in news::

> Hysterical nonsense...
>
>

Historical caution. Name one product Micro$oft ever produced where ver 1.0
was ready for issue......we'll wait.

Remember Win ME?......just one example to get you started.....(c;]

Oh, I already have you started!....sorry.

--
Larry

"BillW50" <> wrote in news:hc72jl$a0j$-
september.org:

> I am running Windows 7 on this Gateway MX6124 and an Asus EeePC 702G16.
> And both are Celerons. This Gateway is 1.5GHz and the netbook is 900MHz.
> And both runs Windows 7 slower than Windows XP. Worse, the CPU temp on
> this Gateway is 25øF higher than it was under Windows XP. The netbook is
> under clocked most of the time, so I don't see much of a temp rise.
> Although it runs Windows 7 very much slower.
>

Why would anyone "upgrade" a perfectly good-working portable computer
running an OS he controls to a locked up, media company controlled OS that
simply EATS THE BATTERY even worse than the OS he controls...not "them".

It just all seems so STUPID! (Of course, I'm the crazy one. I resisted
going from DOS 3.3 to Win 1.0 like it had the plague. It DID have the
plague! So has every version since 1 came out for the first few years!

Do you thing this phenomenon has changed with Vista Seven just by stripping
out some of the bloatware graphics? It's buggy as hell! All new code is
buggy as hell! They should GIVE alpha software away, not charge the
customers!

AAArrrrggghhh!! We never learn anything around computers....Human logic
doesn't exist!


--
Larry

Re: "Name one product Micro$oft ever produced where ver 1.0 was ready
for issue"

Windows XP; and Windows 98. Sure, there were updates and service packs.
There will ALWAYS be updates and service packs. That doesn't mean
that the version without them was seriously flawed AT THE TIME OF IT'S
RELEASE.

Re: "Remember Win ME?"

That's hitting below the belt. Not because it's incorrect, it's very
correct. But because it is, absolutely, the worst OS that MS has ever
released, and even MS will admit that. So was it awful? Of course it
was, which EVERYONE (even) MS recognizes. But, consequently, the only
thing that it proves is that MS can release a bad OS. Which is very
different from your assertion that it always or usually does.


Larry wrote:
> Bigguy <> wrote in news::
>
>> Hysterical nonsense...
>>
>>
>
> Historical caution. Name one product Micro$oft ever produced where ver 1.0
> was ready for issue......we'll wait.
>
> Remember Win ME?......just one example to get you started.....(c;]
>
> Oh, I already have you started!....sorry.
>

Barry Watzman <> wrote in news:hcasft$iue$1
@news.eternal-september.org:

> That's hitting below the belt. Not because it's incorrect, it's very
> correct. But because it is, absolutely, the worst OS that MS has ever
> released, and even MS will admit that. So was it awful? Of course it
> was, which EVERYONE (even) MS recognizes. But, consequently, the only
> thing that it proves is that MS can release a bad OS. Which is very
> different from your assertion that it always or usually does.
>
>

I got my first taste on a netbook, a brand new Nokia Netbook/Sellphone
Edition, today at the Best Buy sellphone store in our mall! They had
unboxed it, thrown away its charging power supply/book/disks/box, it
seems because they couldn't find them, then put the raw Nokia new
netbook out on the shelf with its half-charged battery pack in
it....just waiting for some smartass like me to come along and PUSH THE
BUTTON!...(It's on the right side hidden in the black plastic.)

The initial installation took FOREVER...on and on and on after the
question and answer period of me typing in the blanks and clicking the
buttons.....on and on and LUNCH WAS LATE!

It finally booted then we had to go through the IE8 installation
procedure, the Windoze Media installation procedure, before we could try
to play a demo tune. The new Nokia $299 + 2 years of slavery and
servitude to ATT has the same HORRIBLE AUDIO as my Samsung NC10! What
IS different is there is NO ETHERNET PORT, just like the Verizon
netbook! Duhhh.... Nokia tried to hide it by putting in an HDMI video
port, instead....a poor excuse of a cover up. I don't know what else
was hobbled. My eyes hurt too much trying to see Tiny Vista7 behind the
GLOSSY MIRROR SCREEN and that was making my headache.

I was nice, by the way. I set the master password to "password" and
told three of the Best Buy Stooges so maybe one of them might remember
it because without it...it ain't goin nowhere!

Mark me unimpressed with both the Nokia sellphone netbook and Tiny
Vista7....yecch. The time has come for Ubuntu!...that time is NOW!


--
Larry

Somewhere on teh intarwebs BillW50 wrote:
> "Bigguy" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Hysterical nonsense...
>
> Well that was, but I am hear to comment what you said. ;-)

Huh? For a man who types a lot you sure don't know how to say things in
English properly. Did you even go to high school?
--
Shaun.

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's
warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'.

Somewhere on teh intarwebs Larry wrote:
> Bigguy <> wrote in
> news::
>
>> Hysterical nonsense...
>>
>>
>
> Historical caution. Name one product Micro$oft ever produced where
> ver 1.0 was ready for issue......we'll wait.

Haven't you heard that it's all a big con? It isn't version 7.0, it's simply
a refresh of Vista (Ver. 6.0). That's why, when you type 'ver' at a command
prompt in Windows "7" <cough> it tells you that it's version 6.1.

> Remember Win ME?......just one example to get you started.....(c;]
>
> Oh, I already have you started!....sorry.

Heh!
--
Shaun.

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's
warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'.

Somewhere on teh intarwebs M.I.5¾ wrote:
> "Larry" <> wrote in message
> news:Xns9CAF4955F89Cnoonehomecom@74.209.131.13...
>> Ablang <> wrote in news:f66805b9-d447-4c3a-9e6c-
>> :
>>
>>> Get Windows 7 on Your Netbook in a Half-Hour
>>> Follow these steps to prepare a USB key on a Windows XP-equipped
>>> computer and install Windows 7 on your netbook in under 30 minutes.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> No, NO! Don't screw up a good working XP machine with Vista 7!
>>
>> I was fooling around with WinVista7 at the store today. A brand new
>> laptop....6GB of RAM had 3.6GB of free memory to run your stuff? The only
>> program running on it was the little store demo! You gotta
>> have 6GB to run
>> it?! How crazy! A netbook only has 2GB, TOPS! How is a netbook
>> gonna run
>> this WinVista7 crapware and have room to run your stuff in 2 GB of
>> RAM on an N270 Atom??
>>
>> Geez it keeps getting BIGGER! How stupid! Really stupid on a
>> little Atom netbook! The little netbook will be HOSED!
>>
>
> You're posting *******s yet again.
>
> Windows 7 (there is no such product as Vista7)

Correct. Windows '7' is in fact Vista.1. Vista was Windows 6.0 and '7' is
Windows 6.1.

Don't blame me, it's Microsoft who're misrepresenting their product.
--
Shaun.

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's
warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'.

> is actually smaller
> than Vista. It would be quite impossible to run the 32 bit version
> of Windows 7 if it required the memory that you claim it requires.

"~misfit~" <> wrote in message
news:hcbemf$v3p$...
> Somewhere on teh intarwebs M.I.5¾ wrote:
>> "Larry" <> wrote in message
>> news:Xns9CAF4955F89Cnoonehomecom@74.209.131.13...
>>> Ablang <> wrote in news:f66805b9-d447-4c3a-9e6c-
>>> :
>>>
>>>> Get Windows 7 on Your Netbook in a Half-Hour
>>>> Follow these steps to prepare a USB key on a Windows XP-equipped
>>>> computer and install Windows 7 on your netbook in under 30 minutes.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> No, NO! Don't screw up a good working XP machine with Vista 7!
>>>
>>> I was fooling around with WinVista7 at the store today. A brand new
>>> laptop....6GB of RAM had 3.6GB of free memory to run your stuff? The
>>> only program running on it was the little store demo! You gotta
>>> have 6GB to run
>>> it?! How crazy! A netbook only has 2GB, TOPS! How is a netbook
>>> gonna run
>>> this WinVista7 crapware and have room to run your stuff in 2 GB of
>>> RAM on an N270 Atom??
>>>
>>> Geez it keeps getting BIGGER! How stupid! Really stupid on a
>>> little Atom netbook! The little netbook will be HOSED!
>>>
>>
>> You're posting *******s yet again.
>>
>> Windows 7 (there is no such product as Vista7)
>
> Correct. Windows '7' is in fact Vista.1. Vista was Windows 6.0 and '7' is
> Windows 6.1.
>

I have seen nothing that claims Windows 7 is just an "enhancement" of Vista
and much that claims that is a completely new development. If Windows 7 was
just an enhancement of Vista it would be unlikely to be smaller.

"Barry Watzman" <> wrote in message
news:hcasft$iue$...
> Re: "Name one product Micro$oft ever produced where ver 1.0 was ready for
> issue"
>
> Windows XP; and Windows 98. Sure, there were updates and service packs.
> There will ALWAYS be updates and service packs. That doesn't mean that
> the version without them was seriously flawed AT THE TIME OF IT'S RELEASE.
>
> Re: "Remember Win ME?"
>
> That's hitting below the belt. Not because it's incorrect, it's very
> correct. But because it is, absolutely, the worst OS that MS has ever
> released, and even MS will admit that. So was it awful? Of course it
> was, which EVERYONE (even) MS recognizes. But, consequently, the only
> thing that it proves is that MS can release a bad OS. Which is very
> different from your assertion that it always or usually does.
>

There was considerable evidence that ME was in fact, more or less Windows 98
third edition. Although ME appeared to have much changed functionality
(e.g. There was no real DOS mode and no ability to create bootable
floppies), in reality much of the Windows 98 functionality could be restored
as the changes were simply edits to configuration and start up files.

My Windows ME on my older laptop has had the real DOS mode restored, creates
bootable floppies and many other badly altered features altered back. Once
these changes are made ME was more stable and no worse than Windows 98 SE.
In reality Windows ME, had it not been for all the unnecessary functional
changes, was just a year 2000 update to Windows 98 SE.

"~misfit~" <> wrote in message
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> Somewhere on teh intarwebs Larry wrote:
>> Bigguy <> wrote in
>> news::
>>
>>> Hysterical nonsense...
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Historical caution. Name one product Micro$oft ever produced where
>> ver 1.0 was ready for issue......we'll wait.
>
> Haven't you heard that it's all a big con? It isn't version 7.0, it's
> simply a refresh of Vista (Ver. 6.0). That's why, when you type 'ver' at a
> command prompt in Windows "7" <cough> it tells you that it's version 6.1.
>

'ver' at a command prompt is not really a reliable way of finding out the
parentage of an operating system. Especially when you consider a DOS
version some time ago that could be user configured to return any version
description of your chosing (DOS 6?).