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First Look At Windows 7 On an Entry-Level Netbook
davidmwilliams sends in his IT Wire review of how Windows 7RC1 performs on an Acer Aspire One netbook. Summing up: it runs, it won't win any speed competitions, you won't want to play Crysis on it, and it's pretty OK for light-duty, everyday tasks. In related news, several readers have noted that Windows 7 RC1 is now available; one anonymous reader notes "This time, Microsoft was smart not to limit the time that it's available or the number of keys. It will be up for download until July, so there's lots of time to grab a copy."
Let's see how long until I can force it to crash, and then I can complain about it!
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
Or finding other, ahem, creative ways to keep on using it for free.
Oh, come on. It doesn't take two years to load a web site.
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"However, at all times it was a stable experience, just increasingly slower as I attempted to do more simultaneously."
I'm not sure which piece of the equation is making a glorified word processing program page fault on 1GB of RAM but I think that's a bit ridiculous.
I used to think the same about an anti-virus running on barebones windows, until I saw the Norton Suite running on Vista...
Maybe it was, heaven forbid, some Windows fanboy defending the latest incarnation from MS.
Could everyone please sign up to the Save Vista campaign. Like Hummer like Chrysler, like Edsel, Vista shows the might of full-sized American industrial production. Itâ(TM)s a monument to everything that makes us great. We can't let it be trashed for misguided corporate attempts to suck up to latte sippers.
Say No To Seven! VISTA VISTA VISTA! All the way!
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I don't know if 1GB of RAM should be too little for an OS and MS Word.
I'm on ubuntu, using 871 MB of RAM atm, with firefox using a whopping 16% of my total 2 GB (= 327 MB).
My systems runs ok, but I guess it'll get a lost faster if I kill fi
I despise Microsoft in most ways and think Windows 7 is quite usable. It's REALLY FAT and USES POWER RIDICULOUSLY, but the interface is responsive and OH SO PRETTY and not overly annoying. Yeah, it's nice and it's smooth. And REALLY FAT. Oh my God its arse is huge. But shapely. Yeah.
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Excellent! The top speed of Windows 7 is 7.9 rather than 5.9. That a 34% increase.
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It's annoying because Windows is like a wife-beating husband. You live with it for years and years of pain, disappointment and broken promises, but just when you think you're ready to leave forever they turn around all smiles and sweetness.
So it's like running Linux, except that at some point Windows does turn around to "smiles and sweetness." Linux just kept punching.
It probably doesn't support Apple punch card readers either.
What's your point?
My vintage 2000 500MHz P-III, fully maxed out with 384MB of RAM ran Win98 for years, was later upgraded to Win98SE, then upgraded again to XP-Pro SP3, recently.
(I know, I know, you should ALWAYS install new and NEVER upgrade, but I have licensed software on it for which I no longer have install media or keys, and heck, it worked.)
Anyway it runs Firefox and Office 2003 just fine, if slowly.
When my kids misbehave, they have to use it instead of the regular machine to do their homework for an appropriate period of time.
When they REALLY misbehave, I disable MS Office (by changing the ACL on the install directory) and force them to run OpenOffice (with Java enabled) on it.
Works great. They RARELY misbehave anymore.
"No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up." -- Lily Tomlin
Dude, your wireless router is PWNED! You shouldn't have used the same password as me. Now I will cut off your access to the In