Isn't it simply beautiful?

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Concordedly

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Isn't it just great when you run a clean install and everything just falls into place properly. You hit Windows Update and there are no additional updates. Virus signatures are up to date. File system organized. Disk defragmented. A nice clean system. Amen.
 
Nice. Enjoying the Aero glass features? I'm jealous. My integrated video screwed things up for me and Windows 7 but when I create my new build, I am definitely switching over. It amazes me how much Vista->Win7 is like ME->2000. And as a Microsoft/Windows fanboy, I am proud that we have an OS that is ready to compete and possibly dominate over Mac again. And don't you get me started on Verizon's android advertisements.

Where's your apps now Mac? Where! WHERE ARE THEY NOW B!#$*

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I really really need to get a life.
 
im getting it installed on my rig tonight, just got all the parts on friday and put it together over the weekend. now on to 7. :D
 
Concordedly said:
Isn't it just great when you run a clean install and everything just falls into place properly. You hit Windows Update and there are no additional updates. Virus signatures are up to date. File system organized. Disk defragmented. A nice clean system. Amen.
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It feels great every day on my computers, then again I run Linux and OS X...:cool:
 
I want 7 so badly... as a matter of fact, I like building computers/updating hardware more than actually using them for stuff.
 
i went from vista 64 to windows 7 64. i HONESTLY saw alittle performance increase just running the os. its like my resources are back! while running steam, firefox, itunes (while playing music) and trillian, its only using my 4th core at like 5 percent! when im running counterstrike source with everything else it sits around 12 percent, i love it
 
I went from XP to 7 x64. Once the install was finished I had no additional drivers to get. It was weird :P
then again I run Linux and OS X...
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OS X is cheating, when you get to pick your hardware and then write an OS to use it specifically you tend to have a leg up.
 
Yeah, I didn't hate Vista like some folks, but I did find it strange that after I put Win7 x64 on all the machines here, unlike Vista, there weren't critical updates every morning!

Same with drivers--I only have to manually look for one that I sorta expected cause its an oddball built-in Ricoh camera.

I'll be the first to say that after I claimed Win7 was nothing special a few months back with the RC, I was wrong..now having the full version for a few weeks, it's certainly awesome!
 
Cromewell said:
I went from XP to 7 x64. Once the install was finished I had no additional drivers to get. It was weird :P
OS X is cheating, when you get to pick your hardware and then write an OS to use it specifically you tend to have a leg up.
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HA! It is not cheating it is just a different business model and platform is all. Custom built PCs are good machines, but if you run Windows, well you get what you get.

I still have something causing memory leaks on my Windows box, and every 4 days or so I gotta reboot it to clear it out. I have updated everything and watched the task monitor to see what process is causing it and there are no processes taking up that much memory. So, something leaks and then when it exits or is terminated it continues to leak. Not sure if this is 100% a Windows issue because it could be caused by third party software.

Every system, platform and OS has it's flaws, but Windows is the worst OS you can put on a machine. The plus side is, you get to game, and there are maybe a few apps that are Windows only. However, in my experience I can almost always find a non windows alternative to the app in question or find a non windows version that is made.

In the end though, it is all about what you prefer.
 
tlarkin said:
HA! It is not cheating it is just a different business model and platform is all. Custom built PCs are good machines, but if you run Windows, well you get what you get.

I still have something causing memory leaks on my Windows box, and every 4 days or so I gotta reboot it to clear it out. I have updated everything and watched the task monitor to see what process is causing it and there are no processes taking up that much memory. So, something leaks and then when it exits or is terminated it continues to leak. Not sure if this is 100% a Windows issue because it could be caused by third party software.

Every system, platform and OS has it's flaws, but Windows is the worst OS you can put on a machine. The plus side is, you get to game, and there are maybe a few apps that are Windows only. However, in my experience I can almost always find a non windows alternative to the app in question or find a non windows version that is made.

In the end though, it is all about what you prefer.
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Lol that's debatable :P
 
aviation_man said:
Lol that's debatable :P
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Most viruses, most crashes, least security, and most expensive. Windows, pound for pound, is the worst OS you can put on a system.

The registry, I mean it is the only OS that uses such a thing, and no other OS uses it, it is clunky, convoluted, and not efficient at all.

Self contained apps is where it is at!
 
tlarkin said:
Most viruses, most crashes, least security, and most expensive. Windows, pound for pound, is the worst OS you can put on a system.

The registry, I mean it is the only OS that uses such a thing, and no other OS uses it, it is clunky, convoluted, and not efficient at all.

Self contained apps is where it is at!
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And yet isn't it the most widely used OS in the world?
 
aviation_man said:
And yet isn't it the most widely used OS in the world?
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That is the business model. Microsoft is great at business. The way they marketed and sold their products in the 90s to give them such a boon of business was mostly on the fact of their business model. They put Windows on every computer they could, and as computers got more popular guess what, there were more windows computers out there than any OS. Unix was around long before Windows, but it was never marketed as an end user OS.

Apple was the first company to actually make a complete system for an end user. Microsoft, went with that idea and took it to Hewlet Packard, Packard Bell, Acer, IBM and so forth when the consumer market finally started having a large demand for end user computers.

It being the most widely used has zero to do with it's quality. It has to do with how MS did business, and they were very smart at their business end. They opened up their product to everyone, so everyone used it. Where as other companies like Amiga, Apple, Sun, and so forth tried to make their own platforms. Less of their systems were being pumped into the market so less were sold.

To give you an example, I believe that Gates bought DOS for 50,000 dollars back in the day, then turned around and put a windows shell over it (win 3.1.1) and made millions upon millions pretty much over night. That is because they did business smart and opened up their product to every manufacturer out there.
 
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