Windows 7 is a BETA VERSION. Beta means it is still in test and is NOT the final version so it is NOT guaranteed to be reliable. It definately still has bugs in it - thats the whole point of releasing a beta version - so people can report back on all the bugs and try it out in a TEST environment. If you read the windows 7 page at Microsoft it tells you very clearly not to use Windows 7 on your main machine. Only use it on a test machine and do not use it for anything important. So - that would be a no. The final version of Windows 7 is due out late this year or early next year.
Windows 7 is fully functional, but it is in the BETA phase and is out for testing only right now. This is a trial not the completed consumer version. i have tried it and have found many incompatabilities and it cause three crashes. It has not seemed reliable to me, and I have encountered several software incompatabilities. It was touted as being less of a resource hog than vista, however, i was using Vista ultimate and My computer idles at about 946 MB ( I have 8GB Ram) but the Windows 7 BETA was idling at 1.42 GB That is getting close to double the resources on my system as Vista. XP on the other hand, I had professional, Idled on my system at only 389MB. You do the math there on what is the least of the resource hogs. With 2GB RAM you would do better for now to simply upgrade to Vista Home Premium, more features and not much more resources used, then wait for the final release of Windows 7, I have a friend at HP Ramp;D and they have what will be the release version for testing and i was told that it actually does use closer to XP resources, and less than Vista resources. Hope this helps. good luck to you. PS I would upgrade to three or four GB RAM if your computer is capable of the upgrade. Walmart has 1GB RAM for under 60 dollars, and 2GB RAM for under 90 dollars. The upgrade will not only speed your computer up but this would allow you to alter your virtual RAM as well to further speed up your system. Your Virtual RAM can be set to double your physical RAM.
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