Via Slashdot Of course that's doing a 32 bit upgrade using "mid-range hardware" which they define as:
Typical Slashdot Windows FUD. That represents a user profile of 650GB. I am hardcore user and my profile is under 8GB. Every profile on my machine for every member of my family combined is not even 15GB. The guy even states in the comments:
Just installed last night on my desktop and laptop with my copy from Technet. I was surprised as to how little of issues I've had so far (I was particularly concerned with driver support on the desktop). So far, everything is very smooth and the OS seems very polished as compared to Vista. I ran Vista on my laptop prior to going to 7 and the 7 just feels much more responsive, even on the older laptop. It could just be the clean format giving me that feeling, but I'd like to believe it's 7
Heh, doesn't surprise me much. I had my OS 10.5 on my Mac Pro running well and then I tried to upgrade to OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and shit broke loose (btw I have dual vid cards, 16GB ram, Raid 5 array on a PCI-e hardware card, etc, etc). I think my config had something to do with it. I ended up having to do a clean install on a 4 month old install to get things working right. Better so far.
Nice find on the user profile size Joker. Also, who does an upgrade? Backup your data and do a clean install.
To be fair I am not the typical idiot user who stores all my pictures in the "My Pictures" folder and all my MP3s in the "My Music" folder, etc. I have separate media partitions for things like that. Given that, my profile might be smaller than other "powerusers", but still 650GB is more than extreme.
To be fair my sysytem didn't like the Mac OS 10.6 upgrade either. I had to clean install myself to get the 64bit advantage. Works well now with 16 instances of compressor running 100% CPU each and all 16 GB RAM. I was weary and backed up all my data though. My RAID array was fine though...
