Yayy Windows 7

Posted on June 9, 2009

Ok, so it has been a bit too long since my last post.  This’ll be a tad bit more of a Windows 7 beta update.  Long story short- I’m really enjoying it.  I like the polish (and the Polish language!), but even more the performance.  Even on my macbook it cooks- unless I go IE8 crazy.  It had an image shudder when I overloaded it.  To be fair, I’ve had that when on my main machine (quad core blah blah) lets IE7/8 get over about a GB in memory. 

This iteration I’ve decided to mix things up a bit more and keep my task bar on the left side vertically.  The logic is that most pages on a widescreen monitor don’t utilize the horizontal real estate and benefit more from the vertical.  So far, it pleases me:)

I also enjoy the simplicity of the mouse over stacks that show a small preview of the current open apps.  It takes a bit to get used to it, but the Aero looks great.  I know that OSX fanboys make fun of anything Windows, but I use both and I tend to use Win7 more on my macbook than Leopard.  Even vs. Snow Leopard’s bells and whisles announced at the WWDC- meh.  I’ll try not to rant, but let’s say Apple doesn’t present fair comparisons a lot of the time.  Maybe when I’m older I’ll actually post on the fabrications and pitfalls about the full switch.

Darn you Apple- look how you distracted me!  A lot of what I’ve enjoyed in Win7 is felt performance.  I’m no Peter Parker, but I spend enough time on computers and have gained some super spider senses when it comes to felt performance increases.  Oh that could lead me in another tangent- felt recoil of shotguns!  I resist.  As stated before, I wish I had even more robust test system to run Win7 with at least 12GB of ram and 2 cards in SLI.  In October I’ll be rolling out Ultimate on my primary desktop- maybe more (I normally have 5+ machines running all the time).  With “XP Mode” I’ll be able to use all the older programs without a hiccup.  Now if we can convince Microsoft to stop with the 500 SKUs and settle 3, I’d be happy (Home, Pro, Ultimate).   Until next time!

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