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Pros & Cons
Pros
Win7 is a win! Product works great, upgrade from vista. Software noggin is a good vendor too. Fast startup and performance of this os on older machines such as the thinkpad-g41 and dell xps400.
Cons
The mac os is not compatible with apple's ios software.
About half the time, outlook hangs up shutdown as it will not completely shut itself down. Corel photopaint often crashes with something about a smartheap error. Windows media player crashes like it's in the nascar truck series.
The upgrade from xp media center edition is anything but seamless. Areas of xp which needed improvement - take for example the xps infamous screen saver - have actually been changed and made less-user friendly. It's not worth the money to buy, but eve... Read More
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Quality
Hate this product obsolescence cycle, but at least i have experience with both 7 and 10, so shock will not be devastating but s... Read More
Works great and had no issues with it
Installation was glitch free and there are no problems with the operating system.
It performed with the up-most stability even on the maxed out settings.
Packaging/appearance
I pre-ordered this before win7 was released for $49 on amazon.
Competitiveness
I can't believe i waited so long to install win7 from xp.
08ghz and an evga gtx 750 ti sc, which could have been playing much better at a perfect 50 - 60 fps on windows 7 is not cool, microsoft!
But win7, bit newer, 1 service pack, some updates.
Helpful InsightsBETA
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That being said i chose the noninternet upgrade option and had plenty of space and no conflicting software
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Tried three times to install after searching the updated install instructions recommended
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Finally just clicked install without searching install updates
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The software upgrade did exactly what it was supposed to
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Some of the websites i was visiting said they only work with expl 10 or above
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Vista won’t go higher than 9 so i began looking at an upgrade to windows 7
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Put in the disc either 32 bit or 64 bit you get both discs and follow the prompts
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
In order for expl 11 to work i needed to install service pack 1 from microsoft
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