I bring to you the future of Microsoft™.
Windows 7.
Anyways. I heard some good stuff from a friend that decided to try it. So i said what the heck, ill try it.
My first impression was, okay its like vista. Then i noticed something, vista on my computer didnt run well at all and i looked into the task manager to find that i was using around as much as HALF of what vista used. And little bit over what XP uses. So i decided to do a couple of tests. I downloaded Steam and installed Left 4 Dead. It ran decently, but had a bit of lag, i expected this. So tired other games and found even Counter Strike: Source even lagged which was unusual. I also downloaded Ventrilo and tested that out. Same story, ventrilo was buggy, again expected.
Drivers. I thought i would have no sound and crappy video. I was wrong, Windows 7 did an awesome job of installing Nvidia Drivers and a sound card driver. Wow Nvidia had a driver for windows 7? Awesome!! Then to find out the driver needed an update. And guess what? Windows Update covered that!! Surprisingly enough. So i install the update and realized something, Windows didnt restart? WHAT?!?! Thats right, now you don't need to restart to use the video drivers you just installed. Windows 7 has that covered. It just "reloads" it on the spot. A flicker of the screen and there you are, on your shiny new drivers.
Really though, Windows 7 is Vista, but BETTER. I also found the time to figure out how to "look" at my windows xp partition while in 7.
Heres a look at my specs:
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System Information
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Time of this report: 1/1/2009, 20:49:35
Machine name: JACOB-PC
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+, ~2.2GHz
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Page File: 1290MB used, 3103MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 11 (o rly?)
I took a couple of pictures if you all want to look. (Be suprized)
http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a362/subman240/windows 7/
Any comments and questions welcome
Windows 7.
Anyways. I heard some good stuff from a friend that decided to try it. So i said what the heck, ill try it.
My first impression was, okay its like vista. Then i noticed something, vista on my computer didnt run well at all and i looked into the task manager to find that i was using around as much as HALF of what vista used. And little bit over what XP uses. So i decided to do a couple of tests. I downloaded Steam and installed Left 4 Dead. It ran decently, but had a bit of lag, i expected this. So tired other games and found even Counter Strike: Source even lagged which was unusual. I also downloaded Ventrilo and tested that out. Same story, ventrilo was buggy, again expected.
Drivers. I thought i would have no sound and crappy video. I was wrong, Windows 7 did an awesome job of installing Nvidia Drivers and a sound card driver. Wow Nvidia had a driver for windows 7? Awesome!! Then to find out the driver needed an update. And guess what? Windows Update covered that!! Surprisingly enough. So i install the update and realized something, Windows didnt restart? WHAT?!?! Thats right, now you don't need to restart to use the video drivers you just installed. Windows 7 has that covered. It just "reloads" it on the spot. A flicker of the screen and there you are, on your shiny new drivers.
Really though, Windows 7 is Vista, but BETTER. I also found the time to figure out how to "look" at my windows xp partition while in 7.
Heres a look at my specs:
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System Information
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Time of this report: 1/1/2009, 20:49:35
Machine name: JACOB-PC
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+, ~2.2GHz
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Page File: 1290MB used, 3103MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 11 (o rly?)
I took a couple of pictures if you all want to look. (Be suprized)
http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a362/subman240/windows 7/
Any comments and questions welcome
