Just got windows 7 home premium...

[129260]

and man, it's awesome!!! Just as fast as the RC, finally Microsoft didn't screw this one up. Anyone else have it yet? I got it on the 22nd, but didn't have time to post til now. Go newegg! haha.

[tashi]

I have Windows 7 Premium 32-bit. Love it.

Aiming to put Ultimate 64-bit on another computer soon as I can.

[Matt]

Anyone else have it yet?

I'll install it on Sunday or Monday and hope that there are no big problems with my security programs like AntiVir, Spybot and SpywareBlaster....

[honda12]

I'm just sticking with Vista for the time being. However that doesn't mean I can't have the Windows 7 'feel'.

[drragostea]

ARG! No support for duo cores... Well, Home Premium that is D:<.

But Microsoft was vague about it when they said Windows 7 will support more than one cores. I was curious on what kind of things Windows 7 will support. Programs?

It would really be (slightly) crippled if Windows 7 Home Premium (running on a Duo Core 2) disabled a program's support for duo processors (program runs like normal, except it does not utilize duo cores because Windows 7 fails to allow it).

[129260]

ARG! No support for duo cores... Well, Home Premium that is D:<.

But Microsoft was vague about it when they said Windows 7 will support more than one cores. I was curious on what kind of things Windows 7 will support. Programs?

It would really be (slightly) crippled if Windows 7 Home Premium (running on a Duo Core 2) disabled a program's support for duo processors (program runs like normal, except it does not utilize duo cores because Windows 7 fails to allow it).

I have a quad core, and it utilizes all 4 of them on home premium. As far as I know that is. It sure looks like that. Anyways, I'm not entirely sure on that information, might have to look into it. Wheres bitman when you need him? lol.

[129260]

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...9-593f5afa3655

http://reviews.cnet.com/windows/micr...?tag=mncol;lst

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...4-bit-faq.aspx

http://www.windowsvienna.com/windows...-cpus-a24.html

Hope this helps guys!

[Matt]

Wheres bitman when you need him? lol.

Thank you for the links.

[bitman]

Wheres bitman when you need him? lol.

Helping his cousin choose the new Windows 7 Home Premium PC that will finally replace that old Windows XP Home thing (originally ME!). In fact, it will have quad-core and 10+ times the capacity/quantity of virtually everything else on the old one!

You've already found your answer, but the limit is physical processors, not cores which are covered no matter how many there are. This is the direction of the future, with multiple cores taking the place of clock speed as the method to scale and increase overall processing speed. Overclocking is simply a dead idea, the new idea is cool, fast and non-blocking.

If you want the info from the source, here's the Microsoft page on the matter:
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/a...licensing.aspx

Bitman