Windows 7

[Hannibal Lecter]

I've been using 7 since it was leaked a few weeks ago, plus I've used a few of the earlier builds.

It's a fine upgrade from Vista, and has a smaller footprint than the much maligned OS. People don't like vista because thats what they hear everyone else doing. It's a fine OS which is much misunderstood. Yes the system requirements are a little higher than XP but it's 5 years newer ffs. Trying playing a new game on a 5 yr old machine and see how these things scale.

While 7 does seem to run faster than Vista and boots a bit quicker, this is mainly thanks to some optimisation of the code taken from the Server 2008 codebase. The new features are pretty cool, with a bit more eye candy included. The Superbar for example is like a combo Dock/taskbar, and it's good at what it does so far.

To address the RAM complaints about Vista, I do like the following analogy. Vista loads commonly run elements into memory so that those programs open instantaneously when you launch them. This takes up RAM, and it is a good thing.

RAM is like a fridge. You buy it to put things in it. If you want to put a lot of things in the fridge, or put really big things in the fridge, you buy a large fridge. It doesn't make sense to then keep the fridge as empty as you possibly can, and complain that your perishable food is taking up too much space when your fridge isn't even half full.


I've been using OSx for a few months also now, and to be honest, while it works nicely, I'm glad I have my consoles for games as this thing just doesn't. First day I got my mac, I installed Vista on it too just so I could use it fully

And even more, the thing that the people often ignore when building their computers is
disk I\O. Disk I\O is almost always the thing that puts the limit on computer's performance.
Solid state disk might be a future sollution for this problem, but untill the day that technique
has been fully developed and cheaper to use, we are going to have to deal with slow mechanical
disks that are stealing the performance constantly. I mean, you cannot expect having everything
simultaneously running on one and the same disk, both OS, Torrent clients etc without severe
performance hits. If you would like to gain some performance boosts, you should place all partitions
on private controllers, channels, and use reasonable RAID for that. Then you'll see much better performance,
regardless OS..

[JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel]

do you have to be in the MSDN or Technet to get the beta?

[JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel]

ok so supposedly the 1st 2.5 million folks to get 7 were lucky

in other words if you were a local NY'er attending Sunny's party last night and were there around 3am you missed it.....................lol

oh well

[hondarobot]

Doesn't look like those people got that lucky after all. Apparently people attempting to download the beta are getting error messages, from what I've heard.

Bahahaha. What dopes. It reminds me of the beta for Star Wars Galaxies. Beyond the numerous other issues, space travel didn't work, at all. Fun.

I could be wrong, but I still think this "7" is gonna suck.

[JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel]

Doesn't look like those people got that lucky after all. Apparently people attempting to download the beta are getting error messages, from what I've heard.

Bahahaha. What dopes. It reminds me of the beta for Star Wars Galaxies. Beyond the numerous other issues, space travel didn't work, at all. Fun.

I could be wrong, but I still think this "7" is gonna suck.

I'm gonna have to agree with you on that

[95racer]

As my computer guru friend taught me years ago, never touch a new OS until SP1 is released!

My $.02.

[95racer]

As my computer guru friend taught me years ago, never touch a new OS until SP1 is released!

My $.02.

[JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel]

As my computer guru friend taught me years ago, never touch a new OS until SP1 is released!

My $.02.

welcome to HA

p.s. OSX doesnt have SP1 updates

VIVA LA APPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[flabbybody]

i'm going to go OT here. hope no one minds

I got a 2 year old Toshiba notebook using windows XP and it just got infected. I do really basic stuff, no fancy programs running a lot of shit. every minute there's an anti-virus alert coming on my screen. it's in the middle and on the bottom right. I click on "fix all" and it just seems to give birth to more alerts.
geek squad wants $200 to do a complete cleaning which they more or less guarantee. any thoughts on an alternative, other than a new computer?

[hondarobot]

i'm going to go OT here. hope no one minds

I got a 2 year old Toshiba notebook using windows XP and it just got infected. I do really basic stuff, no fancy programs running a lot of shit. every minute there's an anti-virus alert coming on my screen. it's in the middle and on the bottom right. I click on "fix all" and it just seems to give birth to more alerts.
geek squad wants $200 to do a complete cleaning which they more or less guarantee. any thoughts on an alternative, other than a new computer?

Sounds like Antivirus 2009, I believe it's called. I've got it on my PC at home, too. I've got it restrained, but I haven't eliminated it yet. The other people I know who got this crap ended up installing new drives, but I trying to avoid that myself.

Anybody on the forum have luck getting rid of this thing?