Comments on: Windows 7

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:06:33 +0000

Don’t worry Brian you’re in good company, my Dad does the same thing The other favourite is when people say “I have ASDL at home”.

I’m a big fan of 7, it’s just so much faster, cleaner and polished than Vista was.

By: Brian Bennett

Brian Bennett — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:22:08 +0000

Yes, time warped spec, but good to keep the IT people amused. That’s great news about 7 though! MS turning a corner?

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:48:16 +0000

Hey Brian, Canada represent

Good news is, the netbooks run fine with Windows 7 and 1Gb of RAM (I’m sure that’s what you meant, not 1Mb, probably would be a little slow with that hehe). 7 has been designed for netbooks and I am writing this reply whilst running Outlook 2007, Live Messenger and my Twitter client with no slowdown problems.

By: Brian Bennett

Brian Bennett — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:22:39 +0000

Hey Pete,
The netbooks are about to fall to the $199 mark here. Will the 7 OS perform on an atom platform that typically has 1 MB of ram? My experience with MS would suggest otherwise, but your blog was so upbeat.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:20:05 +0000

tousche!

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:20:57 +0000

Hurrah!

Macbook? I’m not made of money mate I’m thinking I ought to get into these Netbook things, they seem to be rather popular and they appeal to my favourite words, “cheap” and also “tax deductible business expense”

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:03:58 +0000

Would another option to a netbook be a 13inch macbook with dual OS? Certainly would look spiffy and you’d probably confuse a load of people staring over your shoulder in Pret by seeing a “cool,smooth” Windows UI instead of Leopard!

On a slight highjack, I’ve finally bought my 360 Wireless Adapter, but my connection crapped out before i could get it out the box. Once me and the dad have a conflab and fix it, i should be able to add you and get playing!

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:56:25 +0000

Cheers Lee!
Exactly right about XP, it had the same driver problems that Vista had when it launched. I stayed with Windows 2000 for ages before finally chopping over to XP.

I’m seriously considering getting a Netbook now and putting 7 on it.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:42:37 +0000

A good first stab viewpoint Pete.

Vista got the same kicking from the press that XP did when it was first released but like you said it’s a much underrated OS. I use significantly more of Vista (and Office 2007) than I ever did of XP etc.

The killer thing for me is the fact that while Win7 is an improvement over Vista, it would require me to buy it in order to have it without changing my laptop. Considering it’s a year old and does the jobs i need it to perfectly it doesn’t seem like a wise move.

Fingers crossed that Win7 does get the recognition it appears to deserve and re-establishes Windows as a genuinely decent OS!