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So, as an avid XP/Linux user, I've just picked a brand new laptop pre-installed with Vista Home Premium.
But it comes with a 'free' Windows 7 upgrade.
Why should I? (given I've never lived the dream of Vista).
Any useful comparative sites welcome (google didn't do it for me).
Cheers
windows 7 just works. I have it running on an old xp machine. 1.5ghz, 1 gig of ram ect... Annd it's as fast as xp. Knocks the spots off vista. Fast and stable. Well as stable as windows will ever be.
Installed 7 last week and find it very good, smooth, shiny and seems very stable.
Mind you Vista was ok for me too but seemed clumsy and a little sluggish compared to 7.
probably best to hang off till at least the mad patch tuesday coming up has passed and been fixed, if it's free maybe try it the only opinion that really matters is yours, you should have all the reinstall media you need to go back if you hate it and as you say your also a linux user you could also wipe the lot and go for the new ubuntu if it all turns to poo.
Cheers all.
A few days of vista whilst waiting for upgrade to appear and to be honest it's fine. I think I'll keep 7 for the point in the future that all operating systems end up in - bloatware.
Vista seems fine on my new laptop, so I'm looking forward to the free W7 upgrade in a week or 2.
Vista is the worst OS since Windows ME 😡
Get Windows7 64bit installed.
What is actually wrong with Vista that 7 fixes?
Well 7 is meant to be lots faster. Netbooks don't use Vista because their cut-down processors can't take it. One of the main considerations of 7 is that it must run on a netbook.
Otherwise, I suppose it's just like Vista 1.1 really. Essentially the same thing just better all round.
No brainer really. Windows 7 all the way. 😆
Well 7 is meant to be lots faster.
It is?
Time in seconds to start Photoshop:
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[size=1][url= http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/05/06/windows-7-surprising-benchmark-results/ ]PC Pro, May 2009[/url][/size]
Netbooks don't use Vista because their cut-down processors can't take it. One of the main considerations of 7 is that it must run on a netbook.
Fair enough, but to re-word my question "What is actually wrong with Vista [i]on my desktop PC[/i] that 7 fixes?" Give me a reason to upgrade.
Time in seconds to start Photoshop
Isn't that about Photoshop rather than Windows?
Give me a reason to upgrade.
Er, there isn't one unless you have the free option on recently bought machines, as I do 🙂
Plus, your selective quotations are worthy of a journalist! Fromt he same article that that graph comes from:
"And I was surprised to find that, despite the new OS [b]feeling much more snappy than Vista[/b], application performance was actually identical."
"7’s relatively poor scores here are probably just another symptom of poor Office performance"
Give me a reason to upgrade.
Because you want to use all your RAM?
Because you dont want video memory shadowed in your RAM?
Because you want less than 30% CPU usage when idle?
Because you're wors eet?
Because you want to use all your RAM?
Isn't that just Vista making better use of the available RAM than XP did/does?
Because you want less than 30% CPU usage when idle?
My PC's cpu usage at idle is well under 30%
I'll not comment on the other critisisms as I don't really understand them
I've been running Windows 7 on my laptop since August and although I lack the in-depth knowledge on such things to say why its better it just feels much better compared to the Vista I was running before.
put it like this i have a 3-4 year old laptop, i run vista on it and it dies, slow to do anything - stutters loading simple things even like firefox etc, never wakes up from sleep mode, loads of things.
i installed win7 and it's like XP speed but with vistas looks. it sleeps right, wakes up on opening the lid in 3 seconds to a login screen and windows works instantly at this point i don't have to wait until vista chooses to let me work, no windows freezes, programs open faster and with less lag than before.. granted a powerful pc you sat there saying well vista can do all this already, i don't think you would notice how much resources and processor time vista eats up.. Win7 is what Vista should have been like.
Because you want to use all your RAM?
Because you dont want video memory shadowed in your RAM?
Am I not using all of my RAM at the moment? 😕
And I'm pretty sure my video memory isn't shadowed in RAM. Why would it be?