Well, 7 was officially released today. I’ll have to wait until near Christmas to experience it, when I get my new computer,though. Should be quite an experience…I never have used a Vista machine, so I’ll be going from an old, slow, XP SP3 machine to a current, fast, 64-bit Win7 Ultimate system (with eight times the RAM of my old one) . I’ve been very happy with XP over this last year, but since it won’t be supported forever, I decided to go for the newest system.
Well, 7 was officially released today. I’ll have to wait until near Christmas to experience it, when I get my new computer,though. Should be quite an experience…I never have used a Vista machine, so I’ll be going from an old, slow, XP SP3 machine to a current, fast, 64-bit Win7 Ultimate system (with eight times the RAM of my old one) . I’ve been very happy with XP over this last year, but since it won’t be supported forever, I decided to go for the newest system.
Now, I just have to be patient.
Don’t get your hopes up too much… Vista and 7 are OK, but nothing to get overly excited about; they are just operating systems, after all. I’ve got a pretty fast new machine myself, but I don’t find my normal everyday work progressing any faster than before. It’s more about the “eye candy” than anything else.
Thinking back; while they weren’t the most user friendly in the world, the old DOS-only machines seemed the fastest at actual work with the programs of the day.
I disagree that it is ALL about eye candy. In fact, I think Vista with it’s Dream Scene content was MUCH prettier.
My pretty old system with Vista on it ran good. I set it up in my basement, splliced a cable TV line down there, and installed a tuner.
Tried and tried to get Media Center running. I even bought a signal amplifier. All Media Center told me was “no signal available”. Over and over.
Gave up.
Installed 7 on top of Vista.
Ran Media Center. Went to tuner config > scan > PICTURE!
Nothing changed on this box except the OS. But it feels like I upraded the ram, and installed a new video card.
Everything runs better then it did on Vista.
Message Edited by Peregrine on 10-22-2009 03:02 PM
Well, if I want to look at something pretty; I don’t run to my computer. It’s all about tasks for me. The computer is a tool to get things done; nothing more-nothing less.
I ve been nagging my dad for my birthday present for a long time. I asked him for windows 7 and he said maybe. Well today i was nagging him again and he sais he bought me a present. So I have high hopes for windows 7 cause my netbook’s running a little slower since 7 came out.
@sansafinder wrote:
I ve been nagging my dad for my birthday present for a long time. I asked him for windows 7 and he said maybe. Well today i was nagging him again and he sais he bought me a present. So I have high hopes for windows 7 cause my netbook’s running a little slower since 7 came out.
Yeah . . . there’s nothing that will make a perfectly good computer run slow than having an updated OS come out for it, is there? :smileyvery-happy:
What I was trying to say is after experiencing 7 my vista netbook seems slower. And the present was one of those little ping pong tables. Its not windows 7 but I like it just the same.
@sansafinder wrote:
Which notebook company offers back up operating systems with their products?
I’m sure others offer the same deal, but I know for a fact that Dell will let you have a complete install disk of the operating system; for about a $10 surcharge.
Every release of Windows seems to have the description:
“The new Windows is stable and secure. This time we mean it!”
I remember the pre-release hype for windows 2000. Bill Gates boasted they had a computer that had been running 4 days straight without rebooting! About that time I my unix box at work had been running nearly a year, and my Linux PC at home routinely ran weeks at a time (with shutdowns being voluntary )
@sansafinder wrote:
Which notebook company offers back up operating systems with their products?
Backup as in a recovery disk, or as in a different OS in case the first one doesn’t work out?
My first laptop back in '95 came with Windows 3.something and OS/2. You could run multiple copies of Windows under OS/2.
Most I’ve seen with recovery disks, using it restores the computer to “like new”… files and programs added since are lost and need to be reinstalled /recovered from backup.
Every release of Windows seems to have the description:
“The new Windows is stable and secure. This time we mean it!”
I remember the pre-release hype for windows 2000. Bill Gates boasted they had a computer that had been running 4 days straight without rebooting! About that time I my unix box at work had been running nearly a year, and my Linux PC at home routinely ran weeks at a time (with shutdowns being voluntary )
Have you seen the latest “Mac vs PC” commercial? That’s pretty much exactly the theme of the ad. “LOL MS has been promising a stable OS for years and they haven’t delivered yet!”
Most I’ve seen with recovery disks, using it restores the computer to “like new”… files and programs added since are lost and need to be reinstalled /recovered from backup.
Many PCs these days don’t actually come with the discs, but instead have a preinstalled utility for creating them yourself. I’ve even seen an instance or two in which the only recourse was to order recovery discs. (for a fee, no less!)
gwk1967 wrote: Cs these days don’t actually come with the discs, but instead have a preinstalled utility for creating them yourself. I’ve even seen an instance or two in which the only recourse was to order recovery discs. (for a fee, no less!)
Yes, more common these days to have it as an extra partition of the hard drive.
BTW, any mainstream MFR will have a recovery disk, not a real copy of Windows. Getting the best license price from M$oft requires that it can’t be installed on a different computer.
I would have used that if I had a better processor. It’s great for a computer with a processor of pentium or higher. My netbook is running 7 with a processor of VIA C-7M (Yes, I upgraded on Black Friday.) So that would have made it slower without the actual OS. I got my version of Home Premium for $50. It was a deal at Staples that said if you bought a computer running win 7, you would get 70 dollars off windows 7. We bought a laptop for our friend who gave us back how much it cost for the computer. Then we gave Staples the bill and they verified it. So that’s pretty much what I did on Black Friday.
Message Edited by sansafinder on 12-03-2009 08:12 PM