Win7, good after all.

[Hyperz]

A week or 3 ago my new 1TB HDD arrived and so I had to reinstall Windoze. So I thought I'd install Win7 Ultimate to check it out - again . Originally the plan was to reformat after that and fall back to XP since Vista was bloat and junk in its purest form. My previous test install of Win7 (one of the 1st beta's) wasn't much better either. Bad performance, BSOD's and whatnot. I thought of it as Vista #2.

Now since then I switched from dual to quad core and I'd imagine that quite a lot of optimization was done to 7 since the early beta's. Well I have to admit that I have changed my opinion about 7. As it is now it's definitely a worthy replacement for XP and it actually does perform better in some areas (which wasn't the case when I 1st tested it). I guess everyone can change there opinion . Just thought I'd share my opinion for the other peeps who don't want to upgrade from XP to 7 for performance reasons like me at 1st.

It's well worth it, especially if you have a triple or quad core cpu because the load balancing of threads and processes across all cores is a good deal better then on XP:

http://www.cubeupload.com/files/517e00untitled5.png
^The same test pretty much crippled XP while all (720p HD) videos keep running smooth on 7.

Erm, dunno, your opinions?

Hyperz Reviewed by Hyperz on 23rd Dec 2009. Win7, good after all. A week or 3 ago my new 1TB HDD arrived and so I had to reinstall Windoze. So I thought I'd install Win7 Ultimate to check it out - again >_>. Originally the plan was to reformat after that and fall back to XP since Vista was bloat and junk in its purest form. My previous test install of Win7 (one of the 1st beta's) wasn't much better either. Bad performance, BSOD's and whatnot. I thought of it as Vista #2. Now since then I switched from dual to quad core and I'd imagine that quite a lot of Rating: 5

[Royal King]

Windoze? lol
And yeah Win7 is cool

[jayfella]

i agree vista was a fail for a start, and tbh, windows 7 is waaaaay better. I even installed it on my laptop (1.3Ghz single core, 1GB ram) and its faster than XP.

Long and short, though, and MS will grudgingly admit, 7 is what Vista should have been.

[Loget]

I'm so happy I didn't decide to purchase Vista when it came out, I'm on a laptop now that I bought about a month ago with Windows 7 on it, I used to love XP (PC still has it) but compared to 7 its trash.

The only thing that bugs me about 7 is its hard to find things, I'm used to XP's control panel but the control panel on 7 is weird, I'm sure after a while I'll get used to it though.

[Hyperz]

Yeh, it's like the Win98 -> WinXP switch all over again .

[IPHONE]

W7 +10. ~~~

[Mr.Beest]

Before windows7 in bad days i installed new os about every day, all kinds of linuxes and windows, now im happy with it

[4tw]

I was one of those who always kept to XP, after trying the Vista Beta (Longhorn), it didn't satisfy me and it used a lot of CPU and didn't offer what I wanted it to like XP did, so once Windows 7 was out on Beta I gave it a shot and it was alright, a friend of my offered me a legit key once the final version came out so I was like, why not give it a complete shot and I installed it on my PC, probably the best move I've done for my PC.

It's well worth the price, but in my case it was free.

[Myth?]

I agree Windows Vista isn't that good, but Windows 7 is a win.

[The Coon]

I never understood XP>Vista thing. Apart from all the extra warnings (continue.. would you like to continue.. 24/7), Vista was faster, crashed less, and did I mention it was faster? On 3 PCs, and 2 laptops, all same result. Win7 on the other hand.. I'm starting to dislike it already. Ad aware found 3 trojans installed after having win7 for a week (running ESET), while after 2 years of using vista, I didn't have 1 single virus (except, ofcourse tracking cookies). And it crashes randomly, and sometimes freezes up for 30 seconds for no reason then starts working again.