Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Ratings: 4.0 from total of 79 ratings.
Price: $319.99
Price: $319.99
Product Features:
- (Includes 32 & 64-bit versions) Combines remarkable ease-of-use with the entertainment features of Home Premium and the business capabilities of Professional–get it all with with Windows 7 Ultimate
- Make the things you do every day easier with improved desktop navigation; start programs faster and more easily, and quickly find the documents you use most often
- Run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode; watch, pause, rewind, and record TV on your PC
- Easily create a home network and connect your PCs to a printer with HomeGroup; connect to company networks easily and more securely with Domain Join
- Recover your data easily with automatic backup to your home and business network; help protect data on your PC and portable storage devices against loss or theft with BitLocker
Product Description
Windows 7 Ultimate is the most versatile and powerful edition of Windows 7. It combines remarkable ease-of-use with the entertainment features of Home Premium and the business capabilities of Professional, including the ability to run many Windows XP
June 9th, 2010 at 12:46 am
I have installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit on my MacBook Pro and this possibly could be the best OS I have ever used (including the Apple Snow Leopard).
If you have a system that has at least 2GB of memory with at least a Intel Core 2 Duo processor (most laptops that isn’t a netbook sold in the last 3 years would fit that bill), then you are far better off with a 64 bit Windows 7 (not 32 bit). I have tried both the 32 bit and 64 bit Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro (2.8 Ghz, 4GB of RAM, Nvidia 9600GT 512 VRAM) and the 64 bit runs noticeably faster and more smoothly than the 32 bit. The reason is the 32 bit Windows 7 can only use upto 3GB of memory. Futhermore, the 64 bit Windows utilizes the 64 bit CPU (almost every CPU, including from AMD, is a 64 bit these days) more efficiently as well. I can run multiple applications with very little lag and the only bottleneck seems to be the disk.
If you have really old DOS based 16 bit legacy or incompatible 32 bit application for Windows 7, then you can download the “XP Mode” (just Google it) from Microsoft free of additional charge. It will install a Virtual Machine that will run a separate 32 bit Windows XP that can run both 32 bit and 16 bit applications. In effect, you can run two operating systems on the same computer. This would come VERY handy if you are running the 64 bit Windows 7 but it wouldn’t so useful if you decide to install the 32 bit Windows 7 version since it can run 16 bit applications on its own (Windows 7 64 bit can’t run 16 bit applications without the XP Mode).
The Mac OS (Snow Leopard) still holds the edge in battery life as I have almost no direct control over the motherboard GPU (Nvidia 9400 GT) with Windows 7. In effect, the Windows 7 runs hotter and gives my MacBook Pro a shorter battery life than the Snow Leopard. Still, my MacBook Pro (2009 model) still can run 5.5 hours with Windows 7 64 bit. It will last even longer with the 2010 MacBook Pro.
This box comes with both 32 bit and 64 bit Windows 7 ultimate. If you already have Windows Vista installed on your computer, then you should get the upgrade version instead which is substantially cheaper.
If you trying to purchase a new Windows computer, then I highly recommend getting one with at least 4GB of memory and the Windows 7 64 bit version.
June 9th, 2010 at 9:09 am
1) is your copy a sealed, boxed copy?
2) I don’t want to know anything else.
“The following items are not covered by the Amazon A-to-z Guarantee: digital merchandise”
AND THERE ARE HOW MANY: “Just Launched” PEOPLE SELLING?
SHEECH! Swindle city.
June 9th, 2010 at 9:47 am
Windows 7 was supposed to the best operating system out there. How wrong they were. I bought Windows 7 Ultimate because I was tired of all the annoyances of vista.
Pros:
-It can handle Netbeans and other programming IDE’s easily, unlike Vista, which always gives an error for every single line of code.
-Better security
-Uses Less Memory
-Quick Startup
-Total processes used cut in half (60 in Vista to 31 in Windows 7), and 1/3 the amount of processes running at once under normal circumstances (24 in Vista compared to 8 in Windows 7) of what you would see in Vista.
-Physical Memory used by programs reduced from 22% average on Vista to 12% on Windows 7
(both compared to a fresh boot of vista home premium and windows 7 ultimate on a 250gb 6gb ram laptop
Cons:
-Aweful GUI.
Even though it gives you the option of an XP theme, it changes looks, but unfortuantely not any of the other annoying taskbar and icon tray annoyances.
-Taskbar forces you to group items that are similar together
Even after disabling aero and getting the classic XP bars back on the bottom. The reason it is a Con to me is that when you are programming and have many windows open, I know what order I opened the programs. But now I have to open every window just to see which window is the one I need.
-Show Desktop is on the very right hand side of the system tray past the time.
When switching between windows, needing to put things on the desktop, it is so much more easy to click the show desktop that was next to the Start Button like in Vista. Now You have to drag your mouse on the very opposite of the screen just to do it, doing so makes things a lot harder for programmers when they need to quickly get things done. You can still press the windows icon and D at the same time, but it is easier just to whip you mouse to where the old show desktop icon was.
-Had to get rid of quick launch.
Now that I have the desktop to look like XP, there is still the problem with the quicklaunch. Quicklaunch was a handy thing they added in Vista, but it is dead already. Every time you open something using the quick launch, the button the disappears and is replaced by a window. So now it is not possible to quickly launch a few Firefox windows or other programs.
-XP Mode. One of the main reason I wanted to get Ultimate was for the XP mode that you could download for it. However, you go to the site and try to download the program, it has to authenticate to make sure you have ultimate. The downloadable checker verifies that I have ultimate, but the website still stays its waiting for verification, which means I can not download the program unless pirated from another source, which most likely not work.
Im my opinion, and other friend programmers, Windows 7 is an eye candy loaded idiot-proofed interface meant for normal users and not the loyal techies that put a lot more use into the computers.
Now, time to dual boot ubuntu and windows XP and get rid of this terrible OS.
June 9th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
I upgraded from Windows Xp to Windows 7, and the results are dramatically improved. From ease of use, better customizing and personalization, to exponentially improved multitasking. I use my PC for gaming purposes mostly, and multitasking or shrinking screens while a game was active was tedious and caused a lot of lag, but now I can multitask between internet, files, and games without so much as a hiccup. This is an excellent software, a true must have!
June 9th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Product is great but beware of counterfit MSDN copies. I purchased from Bella Villa here in February and didn’t find out it was a developer copy until June. This means functionality is limited after a period of time. There is no way to tell up front as it looks genuine, sealed package, has key, hologram, etc. Shame on Microsoft for stupidly packaging developer copies the same as retail copies and allowing this situation to exist. Idiots!