I ve downloaded it and tried it. From your specs, it sounds like you can run it just fine, just so long as you have some sort of a DVD drive to install it. Here s the gist of what I ve experienced on it - - They changed the task bar around a little. Instead of showing icons/text for your running programs, they made it a little bit taller to show just icons of what you have running. I didn t like that feature too much, and you can change it back. - The task tray has been modified a little. I think the arrow that s facing to the left to show hidden items now goes upwards, instead of sliding to the left. - There is now a small rectangle to the left of the clock (on your system tray) that is your quot;Show Desktopquot; button. - Start menu modified a little - so that quot;Shutdownquot; is shown in fine print, with other options in a menu next to it. Probably because a lot of people didn t like hibernating their machine instead of turning it off. - On the Start menu, under your Commonly Used Programs list, they added right-facing arrows of those programs, which opens a window to the right that shows the last few files that you ve worked on. That feature I liked a lot. - They redesigned Paint and Wordpad to resemble Microsoft Office 2007. - They removed the Windows Sidebar, and instead, the Widgets or Gadgets are now free-floating on the desktop, I believe. - I believe they changed the Control Panel a little, though I m not sure as it kept crashing on me when I was trying it out in the Beta. - It s less resource hungry (in my opinion) than Vista was. - They might have removed the Aero interface? As I didn t see it when I was testing it. Maybe just because it was Beta? Not too certain. - Windows Logo when booting has changed. Video of it that I found on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7oDvY1-X... . Looks really cool. If there are any other things new about Windows 7, I don t remember. All that s above is all that I can remember off of the top of my head. That s all that I can say about it. I m not too certain about Dual-Booting your machine, as for me, it wouldn t allow me to boot the DVD on startup. I had to run Windows and start the install that way.
It s faster than Vista. I m running dual boot - Vista/Windows 7. Everything running smoothly - my Lexmark deskjet printer installed fine but my HP All-In-One refuses to install on Windows 7. Windows 7 downloads as an iso file which has to be burned to DVD (a CD is not big enough) which then becomes your installation disk.
It s a beta. It s unstable. It s not meant for use as a primary OS yet.
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