My girlfriend recently decided it would be a riot to fubar my laptop, nice girl she is too, so I decided to back-up, format c:/ and reinstall vista. But looking at MSDN at uni I saw a copy of Windows 7 available so I stuck that on instead.
First impressions are excellent, looks smoother, asks for permission a lot less and is a lot easier to customise. The flag tool is a nice option, tells you whats wrong and for once windows suggested fixes actually work. The taskbar is kept a lot cleaner.
I'm still having a little trouble with the graphics side of it though, however that might be because my card needs an updated driver. The windows experience thing that rates your computer gave me a 1 for both graphics ratings
Whereas I was getting closer to 5 on vista.
My system is a HP laptop, dual core 2.27GHz processor with 4GB of ram (full spec here) so I don't see why it wouldn't run smoothly other than a driver issue.
Other than that I have no gripes with it at the moment (except the lack of built-in games), all the hardware / software I was using on Vista is compatible and the loading time from when I turn it on has decreased.
Kudos to Microsoft this time. Seems they get it right every other time. Win98 was awsome, 2000/me was a major fail, XP seemed ideal (and still does), Vista was too heavy and slow but with some good ideas and Windows 7 has hit the nail on the head again I think.
Anybody else using it, have an opinion on it or considering getting it?
First impressions are excellent, looks smoother, asks for permission a lot less and is a lot easier to customise. The flag tool is a nice option, tells you whats wrong and for once windows suggested fixes actually work. The taskbar is kept a lot cleaner.
I'm still having a little trouble with the graphics side of it though, however that might be because my card needs an updated driver. The windows experience thing that rates your computer gave me a 1 for both graphics ratings
Whereas I was getting closer to 5 on vista.My system is a HP laptop, dual core 2.27GHz processor with 4GB of ram (full spec here) so I don't see why it wouldn't run smoothly other than a driver issue.
Other than that I have no gripes with it at the moment (except the lack of built-in games), all the hardware / software I was using on Vista is compatible and the loading time from when I turn it on has decreased.
Kudos to Microsoft this time. Seems they get it right every other time. Win98 was awsome, 2000/me was a major fail, XP seemed ideal (and still does), Vista was too heavy and slow but with some good ideas and Windows 7 has hit the nail on the head again I think.
Anybody else using it, have an opinion on it or considering getting it?
