Windows 7 temptation
The reviews about Windows 7 have been great, or perhaps greater than Windows Vista. Most people would say Windows Vista is sluggish and hungry while most people would say Windows 7 is better and faster than Windows Vista by miles. That is also part of the reason where I left a blank partition in my hard disk drive. I was thinking of installing Windows Vista on that partition but Windows 7 has made me abandoning the idea. Surprisingly, Windows 7 has a minimum requirement of 1 GHz processor speed, 1GB RAM, 16GB hard disk space and a Directx 9.0 graphics device. But I do not think that is the kind of specifications where Windows 7 could live in.
The lowest price I could get for Windows 7 now is around £50 for Windows 7 home basic while £90 for Windows 7 professional. I believe that they are a real bargain. Our computer specifications now are Intel Pentium Core Duo E5200 2.5GHz, 2GB ddr2 RAM, 500GB hard disk drive and onboard Intel GMA3100 graphic card. Hence, I am pretty sure that our computer would work well with Windows 7 in it.
Before you do ‘upgrade’, you may want to ask yourself: ‘Why?’
I assume you run XP. Why do you need to upgrade?
Early releases are often buggy, and unless you’re a techy, will probably give you problems.
It’s worth waiting a while, both for Ms to iron out the bugs, and for developers to catch up with the Vista sw. (Create drivers etc).
Of course, you could always try a variety of Linux!
Hmm… after using Vista for sometime, I am kind of used to it already. Switching back to XP was not hard since I use XP everyday in my workplace. However, the switch was due to the fact that I bought a new computer and I did not want to install Vista since I knew that Windows 7 is coming out soon.
Well, I thought of installing Windows 7 RC but it expires March 2010. In addition, there are quite a lot of RCs and I assume that Windows 7 final is not exactly an early release. Maybe it is a kind of habit where I always go for the latest version of Windows; Windows 3.1.1, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows XP, though it took a while before I got Windows Vista.
Even the Mac OS on my Samsung Netbook was the latest version at the time of installation.
As for Linux, I kind of refrain from it. I had Linux Redhat installed once but never got the hang of it.