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Well... no support for XP. Guess I'll have to wait till I get a new laptop or desktop to try it... Unless anybody can tell me if Win 7 will be slow on a Turion 64 TK-55 1.8Ghz with 2 GB of RAM....
 
[citation][nom]victorintelr[/nom]Well... no support for XP. Guess I'll have to wait till I get a new laptop or desktop to try it... Unless anybody can tell me if Win 7 will be slow on a Turion 64 TK-55 1.8Ghz with 2 GB of RAM....[/citation]

[citation]If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:


•1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

•1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

•16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

•DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

[/citation]

Thats from:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/system-requirements

I have heard of people installing Windows 7 on a Pentium 4 with 1GB of RAM and it worked fine. Had a client who installed it on a system that had a 855G Intel IGP that had no drivers and ran fine and thats pretty old.

Should work decently on yours if you have a half way decent GPU.
 
Speaking of hardware acceleration, I love Firefox Minefield b7 Pre.

I must say, Mozilla have been working hard to get hardware acceleration right. I remember how buggy it was when they first turned it on. Flash would crash and flicker, Youtube's HTML 5 player would not display progress bar etc. Now it's great!

Downloading IE9 right now. I love the browser war~

 
[citation][nom]cy-kill[/nom]Anyone having any problems when it's downloading, it gets to the "q" in required and just stops?[/citation]

Yeah I'm having that exact same issue.
 
[citation][nom]mykem[/nom]I've got it installed. Rock solid for me and very nice. I especially love that I can drag a tab out of the browser window to open it in a new browser window.. and.. then I can drag the tab back to combine it back in. Very cool and very useful! The speed improvements are also incredible. This is the most responsive browser I've ever run. I'm seriously considering ditching Firefox.[/citation]
Ah... why did we have to wait so much for this.. .I've been waiting for all browsers to get it since the very first time we got tab browsing in firefox. Now, what I miss in the later (which can already do what you described here) is the ability to easily dock a tab back to the window. Is it possible with the new IE9 ?

Can't wait to get home and give it a try.
 
[citation][nom]Bolbi[/nom]Um, Firefox does that tab-dragging thing, too. Besides, have you tried Firefox 4 beta? The latest Firefox 4 beta and the IE 9 beta are neck-and-neck in speed (so are Opera, Safari, and Chrome for that matter, with Chrome being on top right now).Before anyone asks, yes I have tried IE 9 beta already. I just don't see any huge advantages that it has over Firefox 4 beta, and in Firefox I have all those wonderful extensions...[/citation]
Have a question on the new firefox (don't want to install the beta because I want at least a stable browser and don't really want to get a dozen installs on my computer). Did they improve their integration with Win7? Or is it still a simple program running like any other? I mean the kind of stuff like how IE8 lets you see a preview and/or list of your tabs straight from the taskbar, so that you don't need to first clic on the browser then find your tab.
It seems like the new IE has taken that integration several steps forward, and it sure is an advantage for Win7 users.
 
[citation][nom]greghome[/nom]goolge Chrome is still gonna be a better browser, IMO.it's fairly light compared to IE8, using 4times less RAM on some occasion.Hopefully, M$ can pull ppl back to using IE, or we can have more jokes about IE[/citation]1st) Why do you compare Chrome to IE8 when we are talking from IE9?
2nd) It is certainly nice to get responsive programs for low spec machines, but some people get just religious about it. Personally, I couldn't care less about how much RAM a software uses if it's good, because RAM is cheap nowadays and I rather have software that makes the most of my hardware. Otherwise get back to browsing on a single instance-single tab browser in text mode... You know, it uses so little RAM... (wonder what am I going to do with my 8GBs though...)
 
[citation][nom]victorintelr[/nom]Well... no support for XP. Guess I'll have to wait till I get a new laptop or desktop to try it... Unless anybody can tell me if Win 7 will be slow on a Turion 64 TK-55 1.8Ghz with 2 GB of RAM....[/citation]I have installed Win7 on a Pentium M 1.6 GHz and 2GB of RAM and for me it works much better than WinXP (I mean a WinXP SP3 with search indexer, antivirus and all updates installed). Plus moving to Win7 also allows you to use the new Live Essentials, which are a great step forward on most basic PC tasks (mail, photo edit/library, messenger, bloging). With the upcoming IE9 Microsoft is really making a good case to definitely move to Win7 (I only have one computer left with XP...)
 
[citation][nom]Enzo Matrix[/nom]Also, why must I reboot after installing?.[/citation]Because IE has always be an integral part of windows and linked with many core libraries.
The thins is that several anti-trust trials have forced Microsoft to make it "optional", but IE is not just "a program" like other stand alone browsers. I believe that's also the reason why they have an advantage on the HW acceleration stuff; Microsoft uses Win7 HW layer straight from the base ...
 
[citation][nom]danielgr[/nom]Ah... why did we have to wait so much for this.. .I've been waiting for all browsers to get it since the very first time we got tab browsing in firefox. Now, what I miss in the later (which can already do what you described here) is the ability to easily dock a tab back to the window. Is it possible with the new IE9 ?Can't wait to get home and give it a try.[/citation]Well, now that I installed it I can answer my own question. Tabs can be undocked and docked incredibly easily and intuitevely thanks to areo (it actually keeps your website along your mouse as if you just grabbed a paper). More interestingly, you can combine it to W7 Aero Snap to put it straight on one of your screen halves, so that finally we got a fast an easy way of getting two websites side by side; About time !!!

PS: Love it, really, love it ! (hope every competitor makes new stuff as good as this; got to love the web !)
 
Hopefully microsoft has finally made a browser that meets the w3 standards. Can't wait to test it out, though I'm sure it will take a while yet before the make a good browser. 😉
 
I have not seen a big speed improvement. I don't like the menu bar disappearing and searching from the address bar is not that efficient for me, but yet I don't want the google toolbar
 
I wanna try it at home... but my work programs only work in ie 7.0 or lower ... which is really annoying. guess i'll be stuck with firefox till ie can come up with a way to run backwards compatible
 
I've been using it for a little while now. Haven't had any problems with it so far. I like how they've changed the download manager.

Overall, I really like it. Also, I'm glad that it can't run on XP. It's time to move on...

And those who like sticking with their old software, won't really want to run IE9 anyhow.
 
it has browser mode compatibility from ie7 to ie9 for problems with some sites.
 
Well, I had it installed, then had to uninstall it. Textboxes on web sites would stop working, couldn't open file location from the desktop. So I went back to IE8, I've also got Chrome(Plus) and Firefox installed.
 
[citation][nom]shmung[/nom]how do i get back to internet explorer 8 i cant find a way to remove it on windows 7[/citation]

Go into:

Control Panel > Programs and Features > Installed Updates

And then right click on Internet Explorer 9, and choose Uninstall. After it uninstalls, and you do the reboot, it'll go back to IE8.
 
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