Windows 7...should i?
Sunday, November 1, 2009 by WarKobra | Discussion: Personal Computing
What has peoples experience been? Should i do the upgrade?
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Reply #42 Wednesday, November 4, 2009 6:35 PM
I got my upgrade free when I bought vista for my new comp that I put together over the summer. So far I like it a lot better than vista, but if it wasn't free I wouldn't get it.
If you aren't having much trouble with vista, then windows 7 just gets you a nicer ui and a few gimmicks (quite a bit nicer, but just the ui is not worth more than 20 bucks or so).
However, I don't know enough about the technical aspects to say whether there's more to it than that.
Reply #43 Wednesday, November 4, 2009 7:07 PM
I'm running a 1.6ghz AMD procesor, 2gb ram, nvidia geforce go 6100. Until windows 7, I'd used MicroXP, an extremley lean hack of Windows XP. I'm now using windows 7 ultimate. Love it. Runs like a dream. I play oblivion, gta san andreas, tomb raider anniversary, it is all great. I love the OS.
Reply #44 Wednesday, November 4, 2009 7:43 PM
On that note, I haven't seen those complaints wrt Win7, but I haven't really been looking terribly hard either.
I should have elaborated in my previous post that those devices did not install as easily in Vista. Same printer, same TV tuner card, but I had to manually install the drivers myself, and it took some messing around, I might add... whereas Win 7 found and installed them automatically.
While I had no major issues with Vista, well nothing I couldn't resolve, I am far more impressed with Win 7, being that it is faster and more responsive to use.
Reply #45 Wednesday, November 4, 2009 9:32 PM
3.65 seconds.
The advantage of a TechNet sub is I can experiment with relative performances of OS functioning...on matched [the same] machine....but at the moment the XP is almost a virgin install and the Win 7 has oodles of stuff on it....but the boot times [to end of HD thrash] are 2.35 and 1.42 ... XP vs. Win 7.
To be 'fair' I'll need to retest with equally loaded 'crap'.
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Reply #41 Wednesday, November 4, 2009 6:04 PM
I didn't mean to imply that all of them have issues. Only that some do, and those device categories have always had the biggest number of complainers from the boards I've checked out in the past.
On that note, I haven't seen those complaints wrt Win7, but I haven't really been looking terribly hard either.