I kinda like Windows 7. My old laptop broke and I was forced to upgrade to a Vista laptop and that was really bad. I would compare vista to a steaming t***. The laptop became great as soon as Windows 7 came out and I was able to install it, although I have to say I resented the fact I had to pay for it. It should have been a free upgrade. I have 3GB of ram, and I can't imagine running windows 7 on anything less. I know it says it will run on 1GB but lets face it, it's no xp. Having said that though, if given the choice I would want all my new machines to be installed with XP because I'd rather have all that extra power to use for me rather than Microsoft's usual function creep eating away at my processing time. I feel like after I've upgraded from a single core 1.6ghz XP machine to a 2.2dual core Windows 7 machine I'm not seeing the performance boost I'd like. I'd like it to feel faster. Instead it just looks prettier. Good topic.
I just love that they stole some great features from Mac and even Google Chrome. Like the fact that you can more tabs on windows in Chrome and you can move icons in the bottom bar of Windows 7. That's great. Or the feature that you can take a folder, push it against the side of the screen and it will auto-adjust to that shape. I use this all the time.
Windows 8 will suck. They're incapable of making a good OS twice in a row... 98 - ME - XP - Vista - 7 - 8...
is that old notebook or brand new one? remove unwanted applications and addition softwares that come with your manufacturer. These are memory hog. If you have AV installed it will further slow down.
I was actually thinking about this the other day. I'm not going to leave XP for quite sometime. Its been too stable and I don't need the glamor and glitz of Win7 to eat up all of my ram along with other things. The day I'll goto Win7 is when its in its dying days and all the bugs/problems have been sorted out of it. Not that XP is exactly that, but its still ahead in a lot of ways.
Mac OS is based on a Linux type thing. So while I can't say directly whether or not it would slow down, I imagine it wouldn't. I've used various incarnations of Linux and they never suffer the problems windows faces with slowing down and stuff like that. Solid and reliable. I'd use linux all the way if it wasn't for the fact that whenever you come across a specific piece of software you need, there's rarely ever a linux version of it. I'm not that big of a techie, so I was spending more time trying to get wine to work, or find linux alternatives to things that I actually was spending working. I've been dual booting ever since.
I got tired of my windows 7 lappy running slow and reinstalled windows again, so none of the crap from the manufacturer is on there, thankfully. I hate that stuff. My notebook runs fairly fast usually, but if I'm video calling then Skype and windows 7 conspire against me, an it starts to get sluggish. I'm even running an older version of skype, because the newer version is too big. I think the minimum system requirements for the latest version of skype mentioned a Cray Supercomputer. I think if my computer was compatible I'd just install XP. It would be great.
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i use windows 7 starter in netbook and feel that this system should be in use before setting really comfortable to use.
Hey, ya I agree with you. I have a desktop which is still running what I feel is the best operating system from Microsoft..XP Professional. I did buy a laptop however so I can have Win & on it just for the snap feature. I do alot of work and so need to do alot of moving between browsers. I do agree though not really happy with Win 7 otherwise.