Advice for setting up a Windows 7 Demo station?
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October 9th, 2009
What features should I make sure I have set up and or ready to demo? It’s a dinosaur of a computer,(Dell 4550, 2.5Ghz P4, 1.25GB RAM, basic video card. )
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@doggywuv thanks? I already have windows 7 installed, and am completely aware of the system requirements.
What features should I make sure I have set up and or ready to demo?
Demo what? Like a demo pod in a store?
@markyy demo= demonstrate, show off, unveil etc. I found this.
Any other killer features I should know about?
More RAM would help tremendously. There is a run on DDR2 out of Taiwan right now, so I encourage you to pick some up when you have a chance. Price is going up. Otherwise… A mouse, a monitor or two. You should be all set. Running Win 7 at the moment on a dual core with 4gbs and it’s a rocket ship, but I had it running on a 2gb Celeron last week and that was faster than XP believe it or not.
@charhalCDW duly noted. Part of the demonstration is to show customers that (unlike Vista) they dont have to spend a ton of money on hardware to get Windows 7. Hence installing it on an old Dell.
I found these. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/videos
are there any other good features of Windows 7 that I can highligh to consumers? (residential mostly)
@patg7590 Oh sorry, I didn’t understand the question. Well, show people the new taskbar and its features, show them the ribbon in Paint and WordPad, and I think that Windows 7 supports multi-touch so I would get a big multi-touch monitor and demonstrate its capabilities with Windows 7.
I ended up downloading all of the feature videos from ms and burning it to a DVD that loops
@doggywuv good idea with multitouch.
Paint and wordpad are selling points? Come on… That’s just lame.
@patg7590 They’re not selling points, they’re just demonstrations of the improved UI in Windows 7 (which is a selling point), along with the improved taskbar and other such features.
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