vista or W7
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alot,
And thats all i can say about it.
I have used XP, Vista, W7 and W7 is by far the best. i am a computer engineer by trade.
Paul
And thats all i can say about it.
I have used XP, Vista, W7 and W7 is by far the best. i am a computer engineer by trade.
Paul
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Considering you are a 'Computer Engineer' you could give the guy a bit more of an appraisal.
Will this do for the lad, Blas?
Considering all the cockups that were the result of Vista being released without due thought and consideration, none of that has happened with Windows 7.
I never had Vista because of the initial problems and because my XP Pro worked well enough for me.
My only contact with Vista was cleaning up a couple of infected computers and as a sworn XP Man I did not like it even after the flaws by Microsoft were sorted out.
My old XP finally packed in before Christmas (hard drive problem) and I bought a nice Packard Bell kit from PC World. It came with Windows 7 Home Premium and almost as soon as I set it up I liked it very much. So much so that I went and bought (the company, No not really) an OEM copy to put on my old XP machine which had been treated to a new Hard Drive. So I now have two Win 7 machines and they are great.
dave
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Vista continually seems to hammer the disk reading or writing on a regular basis - even when nothing is being done and the anti-virus is idle. This causes it to really slow down. Windows 7 from the reviews I have read seems to significantly improve on the performance issues seen in Vista.
XP was better than Vista in my opinion!
XP was better than Vista in my opinion!
That's not correct. I've got Windows and regularly create documents on my work XP that I load into Vista.
It's just something that I've heard. Maybe it's only true for some things. But I don't use vista so if you're happy with vista you're more qualified than me to support it.
What I will say though is that W7 is touted as a huge improvement on Vista, but again, as I'm using XP and have never used either vista or 7 I am not speaking from my own experience, only from what I've heard and read.
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That will more than suffice Dave.
I have xp and w7 (evaluation copy) dual booted on my aging Vaio s5xp laptop.
7 is as Vista should have been. I have repaired dozens of vista pcs and hated every minute.
The only thing that i like about vista is that the OEM serial on the pc sticker works on torrented copies. By that I mean that if you have a dead Vista home premium pc you can download and install a (non OEM) vista home premium cd from the piratebay and it will accept the serial on the sticker on the case.
Unlike fixing an XP pc you no longer have to worry about WGA cracks. There are thousands fo pcs out there that originally had xp but now have xp corp installed with dodgy serial numbers after being repaired by technicians that considered it unfair to charge for a retail version of xp even though the owner had an OEM licence.
For now I will stick with XP for three reasons- my graphics card isn't upto spec- so I cant have the aero glass - I want to use activesync and not the vista/7 version and finally Sony haven't released power management drivers for this laptop.
When I can afford a vaio Z51 I will be happy to go with w7.
For older machines preinstalled with XP- leave them as XP- w7 might be better but it will run slower
7 is as Vista should have been. I have repaired dozens of vista pcs and hated every minute.
The only thing that i like about vista is that the OEM serial on the pc sticker works on torrented copies. By that I mean that if you have a dead Vista home premium pc you can download and install a (non OEM) vista home premium cd from the piratebay and it will accept the serial on the sticker on the case.
Unlike fixing an XP pc you no longer have to worry about WGA cracks. There are thousands fo pcs out there that originally had xp but now have xp corp installed with dodgy serial numbers after being repaired by technicians that considered it unfair to charge for a retail version of xp even though the owner had an OEM licence.
For now I will stick with XP for three reasons- my graphics card isn't upto spec- so I cant have the aero glass - I want to use activesync and not the vista/7 version and finally Sony haven't released power management drivers for this laptop.
When I can afford a vaio Z51 I will be happy to go with w7.
For older machines preinstalled with XP- leave them as XP- w7 might be better but it will run slower
Personally I never had a single problem with Vista. I ran it from the first Beta and it has always worked with no more errors than I had with XP.
Anyway, Vista aside it's now Windows 7 all the way. I can't actually explain the extra features as I haven't found many of them myself yet but the whole experience is cleaner, faster and more compatible than any other Microsoft OS I've used.
Fast, pleasing on the eye and definitely one to corner the market in my opinion, go for it.
Cheers,
Bret
Anyway, Vista aside it's now Windows 7 all the way. I can't actually explain the extra features as I haven't found many of them myself yet but the whole experience is cleaner, faster and more compatible than any other Microsoft OS I've used.
Fast, pleasing on the eye and definitely one to corner the market in my opinion, go for it.
Cheers,
Bret
Windows 7 is best.Because it has better features then the other.And Windows 7 is a vast improvement from Vista as it takes up much less ram and has other optimizations such as fast booting times. I recommend Windows 7, and if you really don't want vista and don't want to wait for the final version of Windows 7, you can download a copy of the Release Candidate from the Microsoft website for free and use it up till June of 2010. I am working with the Release Candidate right now and so far I have absolutely no complaints, considering Im a heavy computer use with advanced software.
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My daughter has a laptop with vista running on it, had it over twelve months no problems with it,she does all her college work on it and as a 17yr old if it wasn't right and some one else had a computer with windows 7 on it and was far better I think we would soon know about it,to summarise all down to personnel taste and what you expect from computers.
i am reporting back to say that W7 is better OS than all the previous versions,i thought xp was ok, i didn't know what to make of vista,so i upgraded to W7, i have 2 graphic cards and a HDMI outlet on my laptop and when i first upgraded to W7 i lost the higher graphics card and the HDMI, But with a little playing around with the settings soon got it running again.and i find W7 a lot quicker at start up and shut down, i have an old mini dv camcorder and could never get it to work on the other OS's, but when i plugged it in to W7 it found it, So overall quite good....But it makes you wonder if theres a W8 round the corner just to keep M$ ticking over.
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