I've got Windows 7 - 64 bit Ultimate running on my HP quad core laptop with 8GB of RAM and it's running great.  Here is a list of what is currently running, what I'm doing and a pict of the current task manager performance graph.  It's not even up to 50% capacity.  Sweet...  Internet Explorer 8.0 - Adding blog entry Outlook - checking email ... [More]

If you have no game development experience, I found a nice, simple online resource from a class at the University of the West of England, Bristol from the Bristol Institute of Technology that uses C# and XNA Framework.  The professors, Bob Lang and Mark Palmer, provide slides in PDF, worksheets and lecture information for you to work through their lessons.  You're not going to c... [More]