Got to tell you, windows seven release candidate is a lot less of a resource hog than this device. When just basically having opened, and minimize the fire fox and couple other apps. Vista would idle about 25% CPU usage and windows seven release candidate about five percent, and instead of having about 60% of my ram or more tied up, windows seven more around 30 % 35% of my system memory, so I’m really-really pleased about that as well. Quick launch has been replaced by pinning your apps to the taskbars so it makes it more; I guess you could say OS X dock like. I don’t really like that analogy, Microsoft did an excellent job. You may not like it, maybe you like the taskbar, and maybe it’s a personal preference. Some of the Arial fact are kind of useful, I kind of like the Arial shake, you just basically click on the title bar whereat shake a little bit, everything else will minimize to the taskbar. But just I do run a dual display setup, so with XP, in my work I have to have to lots of windows in copying paste and moving around, and was very easy to kind of loose my location and loose a window and search around for that. Windows seven has vastly improved my efficiency there. So I’m very-very happy with that. The task tray has been cleaned up quite a bit over vista, so it’s a lot more usable and not just ugly.
Now the case is been made that windows seven and vista are much more secure than Microsoft windows XP; I don’t really want to get into that discussion today but I will tell you that there’s certainly been a lot that I’ve been reading out there a talking to other people that that is indeed the case. So, but XP is also a secure operating system if you do thing s correctly. I don’t know if that’s a major selling point or not.
And finally I want to talk about the speed of the system. Now to me their perception is, a) it does boot faster b) it resumes from hibernation much-much quicker than vista. It’s more fluid in my opinion than Microsoft vista, so the perceived speed of windows seven is definitely, that it’s much faster than vista. There have been some tests out there that say well, vista is actually about as fast as windows seven. All I can if you work in the thing day in a day out I think you’re going to notice that it is more fluid, seems to be quicker, it is more responsive; I don’t get my little blue hamster wheel thing anymore. The wait, I don’t get the hour glass the equivalent of the hour glass anymore, I mean I do once in a wile but it’s very rare. And so that’s real, that’s legitimate, I’ve seen it with my own I put up with it every day, couldn’t wait to get red of this to just for that reason.
There you go, so it’s a little bit polished and a little bit quicker. Now there are some cons to windows seven as such. One, there’s going to be like six US versions of this software, instead of just one like OS X, there’s one version, unless you get to server as about as far as going inside one version. I don’t understand why Microsoft doesn’t do that when they got to make thing so dug on complex.
It may require hardware upgrade if you’re running a XP machine, not Vista, I’m not talking about or countering the Vista machine, but I’m looking at it as if you’re looking to either buy a new machine or up, or paying for an upgrade for a XP to windows seven. The same cavy applies, if you want to take advantages some of the cool glass effects and some of this other things, you may need a more powerful video card, faster processor, more memory something of that nature.
There is no in place upgrade for a XP to win seven. If you want to do that then the one avenue is more or less you upgrade from XP to Vista then from Vista to windows seven. Now that’s as of today, maybe Microsoft will figure something out between now and the day of the final release, but that’s the way it is as of right now; and finally the value proposition. If you have a operational XP machine you’re happy with it, its running the software. It doesn’t make sense to go out and purchase an upgrade to windows seven. Well you know I cannot really make that case, I just really can’t make that case for you. If you’re a home user and looking maybe to upgrade your machine and the operating system, get maybe a faster video cards, and you want it with the direct x X capability, then that’s something you’re going to need probably do. But as a business user, if you’re fine and your apps are working a ok on XP, there’s really no business case so I could think of to go to windows seven other that; I think there is some performance, I think for me personally I did get some proved productivity with the new taskbar and some of the tools that come with windows seven. But it is worth the pain and suffering you’ll go though from the upgrade process from XP to win seven if you got a fine machine right now, I’d say probably not. If you got currently a vista machine, I think that’s where things get dicey. I mean, I’ve had a lot of people say “hey we’re very pleased with vista; this is what we want to do”, then probably not that compelling of a reason to go to windows seven.
One thing I did advice people on, and we seen it a lot when people where purchasing new computers, they would choosing in using the downgrade option to got from vista to XP and avoiding vista all together. I can’t make that case with windows seven. I think that if you’re going out for new hardware, windows seven is just going to be just fine for you. And I thing you’re going to be really happy with it. So all in all I give windows seven release candidate, big thumbs up. I think it’s going to be a great improvement, it’s definitely, I don’t think, I know it’s a big improvement over windows vista in my opinion. And certainly, I’m more productive with it than I was with vista and really as far as it goes, is more productive than I was with XP. So I really like the release candidates, feature complete as far as I know, and there might be a few more minor tweaks to it but I thing pretty much the earliest candidate is what we’re really looking at the end. Listen, I'm Bruce Nailer, hey if you got any general questions you think you want to talk about just shoot me an email at support@frugalbrothers.com or visit our website, frugalbrothers.com stating June 1st between one pm and three pm eastern standard time, we’re going to be live doing a live cast every two hours a day through the weekday, to join us there for live chat and check us out over there. Bruce Nailer fugaltech we’ll talk to you later.
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