Win 7 7048 x86

For the Usenet crowd, there is what looks to be a clean iso up on a.b.boneless.

It seems to be a good iso on boneless. Loaded it on a USB drive and installed no problem. Beta 1 key worked as well.

I hate when Rogers throttles my BitTorrent downloads.

Internet providers throttling your packets is bad. Just wait until your power company starts throttling your electricity, that will make for cold or hot times depending on where you live. <== offtopic I know

I really like build 7048 (both x86 and x64). It is rock solid and really no significant issues that I have found. Good job Mr. Sinofsky! When this retails, I plan to purchase a copy and I encourage everyone to do so also.

shrink57 said:

Installed build 7048 (32bit) after a fairly quick torrent dl. I did an uprade over build 7022 and all seems to have gone well (it did take a couple of hours). Internet Explorer 8 seems much faster (I can actually use it now instead of resorting to Firefox as I did with previous builds) and on the last build I had trouble trying to install NOD32 4.0 beta (got a BSOD with endless restarts requiring restoring from a backup). On this build, no problem. The new alt-tab switching is cool (showing the highlighted program in the background) and so for no snap crackle and pop when running Creative Audigy 2. All in all, everything seems faster and with less glitches. It is nice to see the improvement. So far I am a happy camper.

Neil

did the same and all seems well...upgraded my 7022 build with the "fast torrent downloaded" build 7048...no issues yet...

wguimb said:

I really like build 7048 (both x86 and x64). It is rock solid and really no significant issues that I have found. Good job Mr. Sinofsky! When this retails, I plan to purchase a copy and I encourage everyone to do so also.

Looks like you've already found it, but for the others the 64bit version has been available for a day or so as well.

wguimb said:

I really like build 7048 (both x86 and x64). It is rock solid and really no significant issues that I have found. Good job Mr. Sinofsky! When this retails, I plan to purchase a copy and I encourage everyone to do so also.

I too am running this. It's running GREAT on an old P4 system with 512MB of ram. This is unbelievable. It runs as good or better than XP does on the same system. I can't wait until it comes out. I love Vista but 7 is a joy to behold.