I am typing this post from Windows 7, which I bought today (for $1.25) and just installed on my laptop. Thankfully, I had Windows Vista Ultimate (which I bought last year – also for $1.25), so I was able to simply “upgrade” to Windows 7 versus doing a complete wipe of my hard drive and starting over.
It took about 3 hours to upgrade – I have no idea why installing operating systems always takes so long – and I’ve only been actually using it for a few minutes so don’t have that much to report.
Other than it does feel really fast. Much snappier than Vista ever did. I’m running it on a Dell M1530 with 4GB of RAM, which should be a fast laptop, but it never really felt that fast with Vista. So this is more like it.
Most of the reviews I’ve read have said that Windows 7 is good, but really amounts to a refresh or service pack of Vista – not a completely new generation of operating system. We’ll see. But for $1.25, I guess it doesn’t really matter. I would be pissed if I had to go out and spend $129 or whatever for it, though, as it is probably what Vista should have been in the first place had its development not been such a debacle.
Will I blog more because I have a faster computer? I doubt it. We’ll see. Maybe at least the blogging I do will be faster.
October 8, 2009 at 2:21 am
Another review of Windows 7.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/using-windows-7-may-lead-to-murder/