Windows 7 upgrade crapola geekery
Today I've been doing the OH-SO FUN AND AWESOME (sarcasm) upgrade of my Windows from Win 7 RC to Win 7 Home Premium. I decided to stay 32-bit. More on that in a moment.
Because I was running Win 7 RC Ultimate Edition, the upgrade does not permit and upgrade from Ultimate to Home Premium. So I had to reinstall Windows all over again.
Frickin' bleah.
I have it fully installed at this point and am now reinstalling all my apps. Currently I'm downloading OpenOffice, and that's a big ol' download so I'm taking a few minutes to write this.
Fortunately I found a way to get a quick list of all my installed apps on my previous Windows before installing the new one. This is an article that will be appearing on PCMech on Monday, so watch for that. This will probably be the fastest Windows OS transition I've ever done because of that, along with the fact Win 7 installs so frickin' fast it's ridiculous - but in a really good way.
Strangely, the upgrade process did not ask me for my XP CD to validate the upgrade. I had my disc and my old product key ready and was waiting for it, but never required me to prove I had XP.. so that was weird. But whatever. I validated my Home Premium copy online and there were no nastygrams from the Microsoft servers. Maybe it's a fluke. Who knows. All I know is that yes, I'm 100% legal so if the OS decides to do anything wonky on me validation-wise, I'll get Microsoft on the horn and validate manually that way (which I have had to do once before and it was fairly painless.)
Okay so as far as the 32-bit thing goes, here's the deal with that.
I do champion 64-bit computing. But from my research over the past few days, well more than half of the stuff I use has no 64-bit offerings whatsoever and there are no plans they will be around any time soon. And being that the 64-bit edition of Win 7 is more memory hungry (which it is as evidenced by the fact that you need double the minimum amount of RAM compared to the 32-bit version,) I'd basically be going 64-bit for nothing. Running 32-bit apps in a 64-bit environment is nothing but a bottleneck, and when combined with the fact it's going to take at least a year (if not longer) before all the app developers catch up, using 64-bit Windows at present is pointless.
There are some geeks out there who get a raging boner over the fact they're running 64-bit Windows.
Big. Frickin'. Whoop.
Nobody cares, and neither do I. I use my PC for work and not as a geek's plaything. And to do that work, 32-bit is the preferred architecture because it runs things best, period. Blab away all you want that I'm not forward-looking to the future. I don't give a crap. By the time 64-bit computing is the standard I'll just buy a new PC then. What-frickin'-ever. Shaddup.
Anyway, back to my app installing..
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Rich,
Thanks for the 32bit confirmation. I’m going to let Win 7 collect dust until I fully trash this Vista SP2 install.
-earlwallace
As long as it works, stick with it and save a buck.
No, no, no, no, no: Mr Menga you are encouraging 32-bit-retardedness; and if everybody thought the same way as you do then everybody would stick to 32-bit and no 64-bit apps will ever be developed: Just as happened with XP and Vista.
It’s not about “getting a … boner” or whatever. (Not all geeks can get a boner anyway.) – It’s about progress rather than stagnation; it’s about taking that step beyond rather than standing still because it seems more convenient at the time.
- Go forth, therefore; adopt 64-bit architecture and a 64-bit operating system: Leave the 32-bitters to their RAM-restrictions, technology of the past, and look towards the bright new horizons with confidence!
Progress to what? Running a 64-bit environment where there are no 64-bit apps for what I use (like Mozilla who has absolutely zero native 64-bit ports of their software)? Progress to using an OS that requires more RAM to run the exact same stuff I run on my 32-bit system now that requires less?
This “progress” you mention is regress. 64-bit a complete waste of time and effort. If your argument is solely based towards looking toward the future, that’s weak and it holds no weight at all; you’re completely ignoring the standard in personal computing, which happens to be 32-bit – and this will not change for at least a good solid 2 years. You can count on that.
Fuck your 64-bit. Enjoy your boner over it, because nobody gives a shit except you.
…New Linux distros are all 64-bit, Mac OSX is 64-bit, only Windows remains partially in a 32-bit world; and that’s changing slowly as more and more people adopt 64-bit Windows 7.
I predict that the next version of Windows will be all 64-bit: There won’t be a 32-bit version. Why? Because all computers bar a few surviving old relics will be 64-bit-capable; so what’s the point of manufacturing a 32-bit version? Answer: There won’t be any. – And the only 32-bit drivers available then will be drivers from yesteryear that haven’t been updated for yonks.
Face it; 64-bit is the future, and the mass-adoption of 64-bit Windows 7 will ensure that that is the way it will be, whether or not you choose to stick with 32-bit. – It’s coming; it’s only a matter of time, and Windows 7 will phase out the use of 32-bit architecture and operating systems once and for all. – You just wait and see. :)
I’ll quote MYSELF:
“By the time 64-bit computing is the standard I’ll just buy a new PC then. What-frickin’-ever. Shaddup.”
Learn to READ next time.
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“Strangely, the upgrade process did not ask me for my XP CD to validate the upgrade. I had my disc and my old product key ready and was waiting for it, but never required me to prove I had XP..”
My 64-bit RTM install never asked me for my XP CD either. I was puzzled; but it appears it just doesn’t ask.
“… so that was weird. But whatever. I validated my Home Premium copy online and there were no nastygrams from the Microsoft servers. Maybe it’s a fluke. Who knows.”
That’s the great thing about this OS: Installation is smooth, quick, and nastygram – less. – Even the 64-bit version; the one capable of seeing more than 4GBs RAM, the one that all future apps are going to be designed for… :)