ibanezjunkie said:
waste of money or worth the upgrade? i get on fine with Vista, but i do use 4GB of ram to get it to run smooth.
the professional computer engineers in the area (my dad one of them) say its a useless operating system and are going to stick to XP. i know there are a few PC enthusiasts here, thought it worth the ask.
p.s. the windows 7 tv commercial is the worst ive seen from any company in a while.
So you have 64-bit Vista? Because a 32-bit OS can only use about 3G of RAM, and is typically slower with 3 than 2 due to memory channeling issues, except with some AMD CPU's which have a triple memory channel.
I'm ordering the 64-bit Win 7 Pro OEM in a couple of days, but I don't know if I'll install it yet. Luckily I can get it wholesale, so it's much cheaper than stock. I want to get an SSD drive as well, a couple more gigs of mem and right now is not the best time to buy one; new technology just emerging and in a few months we should get cheaper/faster SSD drives. The current ones are hardly faster than conventional disks anyway, some even slower. I want a 64 gig _fast_ SSD for the OS; then I have regular disks, such as a terabyte RAID-0 array for working files, games and music data/programs and then a half a gigger for backups, downloads and such.
Anyway.
Win 7, yeah definitely. HUGE improvement over Vista. I ran Vista for a year on one machine, and Win7 beta also for a few months. Much much better, although I could live with Vista quite well once it was upgraded properly etc.
BUT I get what your dad is saying...for now, my machines are Xp Pro...although for instance this machine I'm writing on came with Vista, it's been replaced with XP pro. It'll stay that way too, but on the main desktop W7 will find its way soon enough, just need to get the harddrives sorted.
So...my 'breadwinner' work machine will stay XP. For several years still, I believe. I don't even want to think about getting all the Cisco VPN etc. stuff to work with W7, all the configs, network drives and remote access and whatnot...no, win seven will come on the work machine only much later. There is no interest in our workplace to even think of the transition yet. With Vista they tested it on a few machines, found it to be way too much problems, so all machines stay Xp for a while still.
However, if I had Vista on some of my machines, I'd change to win 7 in a heartbeat.
Currently we have a Core 2 machine I run with a 1066MHz bus dualchannel at 3,33 gigahertz, a Siemens 'pro' x-series laptop with a core2, a Samsung NC-10 minimachine, all these with XP Pro, and an Ubuntu box with a P4 plus of course my Mobile win PDA. All the laptops have internal 3,6mbit HSPDA cellular networks and I use my workplace Win2003 server programs over VPN from them.
