Its being released on October 22, ebuyer and aiming to have it delivered to customers "on that date". I dont know if its better than XP as Ive not ran W7 long enough, but its likely to be better than Vista is for sure and take more advantage of your hardware better than XP and Vista. There...

Its gone down in price even more now..

Its now £148 inc VAT delivered.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/168375

I wonder how much more it will come down... lol

Yea, ebuyer is with free delivery too. ( as is anything over £50 )

Cheers tho.... There is some debate if that version ( the retail version ) comes with both 64 and 32 bit editions...

Yea, but when I "started" looking to buy, ( which was about 3 weeks ago ) it was over £250, so im not that worred :). I havent been testing it all that long, but since ive upgraded my PC, I really need the 64 bit OS to take full advantage... I have to say, Ive not seen it at that price any...

I am running the recent version of Windows 7 RC on my Test pc, not used it much at all, but I am seriously considering buying it anyway on my Main PC from XP Pro straight over to W7. ( leap frogging Vista totally ). I am especially interested now, as I see its being retailed at £159.99 for the Profe...

MudShark wrote:What? something like frogger?

Or Horace goes skiing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmqj1BUDbwU

I like the bit where he says the "graphics are about average.." and he gives it "8/10"

First of all, why a new mobo? If its going to be new, its likely that it wont quite fit the case sockets for the rear etc. Simplest way is buy another identical laptop on ebay, that has a slightly higher cpu and ram spec. IE sometimes there sold with damaged screens without harddrives etc but are th...

Some sort of auto WIndows update? Driver update maybe?

Sounds odd tho.

It sounds to me that maybe your steam settings ( resolution settings ) may of flicked back to a default setting which is lower than what you used to run, and its now giving you better fps.

Did you find your glasses over the break? lol

Im in the same boat as you, we have LUNs and it was pre-installed just a month before I started at my company. I dont get chance to really look at it much, too busy with other stuff and meetings... :S TBH tho, there are three of us IT chaps at our 500 head company, doing all the IT for 4 sites, 3 UK...

Check ur inbox.

What slot do you need? AGP or PCI-E ?

Good luck mate...

Nice post bamz. We looked at these about 18 months ago at work, or something very simular, but your ones look a lot lot better. The ones we were looking at only worked if they were on the same ringmain, which made it sort of pointless. I assume these work regardless?

Its the silly season again.... It'l be a lot harder I would imagine over the next 3-5 weeks...