Life with Windows 7
On a lazy Saturday; was looking to kill my time somehow and comes across with Windows 7, 30 days trial version, read some review @ lifehacker and like to see performance on my laptop with Core Duo 1.6GHz with 1 GB DDR2 533 MHz.
Last time I tried Beta version of Vista, was a real pity and I was unable to play a H264 DVD resolution movie that time. Before giving it a real go install it on VMWARE Workstation, installation was flawless on 512MB RAM using single core; display didn’t pickup Aero but performance was good on a virtual machine; make it easier decision for me to replace my XP for few days.
Backed up C drive of my XP with Norton Ghost; wipe the C drive, first step of installation gone through well but Windows 7 refuse to boot up after it. I thought it requires connected to internet (I use WPA enabled wireless) and it doesn’t ask for key during installation. Try to restart the machine a number of time but in vain.
Last option was to reinstall the OS, again first step went well and not a problem after the restart and I welcomed with a configuration screen. The only difference between the two is I remove the DVD after installation but latterly I kept the disk in until I got the desktop.
Love it visually; Aero is set by default; desktop is beautiful. CPU is doing really well consuming between 10-20% with H264 movie, Firefox 3.04, Windows Live Writer and NOD32 v3 is running along with Windows Defender active as well; a bit awful on my RAM using 90% of 1GB all the time.
A few cons runs IE 8 which can’t display my favorite website Netvibes, got my Firefox 3 crashed for the first time; well its a preview version of the OS can’t complain. A way to go to compete with mine Ubuntu 8.10 but I like it using less CPU resources.
I’m a heavy user of VMWARE player hope it will be able to cope with running the second OS on top of it; finger crossed.
Will wait for Windows 7 to come as default on laptops before I upgarde; can’t bother to buy a laptop now with Vista.
An evening well spent.
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I'm Gurinder nesting in UK working as a Software Engineer in Telecom. I started this blog to note down my activities; mainly regarding financial engineering and news. It's not to advise someone, just mear to record for myself; although comments are more than welcome. More interested in my life its
Gurinder November 16th, 2008 at 5:22 am
Windows 7 detects laptops Multimedia Keys at OS level, Now I can control foobar 2000 directly… loving it.