Saturday, July 4th 2009
Windows 7 Confirmed to Hit RTM on July 13
It would appear as though rumours which surfaced around a month ago are going to be proved correct, as sources close to multiple technology sites have confirmed that Windows 7 will be released to manufacturing on 13th July. Although general availability is still not until 22nd October, this is a significant milestone as the RTM build will be the final code which also gets shipped to the general public later this year. As well as OEMs, the build should also be available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers and will also no doubtedly find its way on to torrent sites shortly after. The wait for Microsoft's highly anticipated operating system is less than four months away, but for many of us little more than a week of waiting stands in our way.
Source:
Neowin.net
136 Comments on Windows 7 Confirmed to Hit RTM on July 13
Only the atom 290 and 300 series supports x64 instructions - since those are the desktop models, it kinda makes sense. they can spare the power and heat there.
Notice how the x64 models have far higher TDP's? (percentage wise) - atom N vs atom 200, both 45nm, both single core - yet the x64 variant is almost twice the TDP (i'm sure higher clocks make up some of that too)
But you're saying that the x64 hardware is getting used even in that case and the instability is there, just going unnoticed due to the chip not using the result of any the 64bit hardware? I guess that makes sense now that I think about it, no way you're going to stop that current from getting in there, regardless of whether the results of the 64bit hardware is even added into the data path.
Either way, I find it unlikely that the extra x64 hardware is accounting for the roughly 60% increase in TDP between the N and 200 series chips. It is more likely the higher clock speed causing that (as you said). And I still stand by what I said that I believe the difference between adding the EM64T instructions or not is dwarfed by the high TDP of the 945 chipset.
A Netbook is a powerfull cell phone, leaning towards computer capabilities
A HTC Diamond touch pro is a powerful cell phone, leaning towards phone capabilities
It's the kind of paradigm where they fit in. You get wireless N, music storage, word processing, mobile internet, a real keyboard, an 8 hour battery life, and the real windows XP enviornment to work in.
There is nothing holding them back from 2GB of RAM, 120GB Hard Drive, and Windows 7 x64. Price perhaps, but DDR2 is perdy cheap. The Atom will come along.
At least the server versions of 7 are only going to be x64, which gives me hope that the next gen home OS will be x64 only
so i'm suppose to stop using my creative sound card that works perfectly fine in vista, doesn't seem like much of a fix! Last time I checked my Nforce 4 board didn't have a realtec HDA codec on it.
Thanks for the suggestions guys but pulling out my perfectly working sound card is not an option. Its clearly a Creative and Windows 7 Issue, whats surprising is I haven't seen to many issues reported and I know some of you are using Win 7 with a creative soundcard with no problems. However on my platform that is not the case, so I will be sticking with vista and keeping an eye on this for the time being. Might be worth trying a newer build of 7 also.
DaveK, you can get it off TechNet until August 15th. Get the Windows 7 Release Candidate over here: tinyurl.com/832nco
If you pay a lot more, you get access to the RTM right away - the RC is, and always has been,
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