Windows 7, revolution or flop?
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Anyone who's reading Penny Arcade knows the answer.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/30/
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/30/
If you have a semi decent HD, just partition off about a quarter of it and install XP there. If you want to run a game that wont work on 7, just switch over to XP.Furburt said:
This sums it up.Zewrath said:Idiots idiots and more idiots...
I'm starting to hate my fellow PC gamers and can only facepalm when see every god damn game is reviewed on a console, because that's what gamers are these days.. And the only people left that plays on a PC are people who plays MMORPG's..
Once a uppon a timen, an extremely thick (but unfortunately well respected) person expressed that Vista sucks and then the whole worlds population agreed by the help of Macs propaganda ("Hi I am a Mac" "-And I am a PC").
Also Vista gained a bad reputation because of a bunch of lausy, arrogant, cheapskate people who had a PC that came with Windows 98, upgraded to XP and then believed that it would be perfectly fine to ignore the several warnings about minimum requirements Vista has and act all surprised when it runs slower than advertised.
"Gamers" also have a habbit of thinking that just because they spend 8 hours a day, in front of a computer, they actually know anything about. Fx: An idiot who keeps XP installed over all these years, justifying it with excuses that Vista is bad but in truth his computer only barerely meets the recommended requirement and he suddenly can't play his very very very old game he spends 8 hours a day with.
This tendency spreads and now for every thing that goes wrong people just say; "LoL Vista sucks"
Even if the problem isn't even slighty related to what OS you have.
I'm not saying that Vista is flawless... But Windows 7 = Vista + 5% and it isn't called Vista. The fact that it isn't called Vista makes people more open minded for it.
It's like Fable & Fable II, same stuff with few extra tweaks and improvements.
Edit: Sorry for my grammar and stuff..
No, Windows 7 is not revolutionary, it's a refinement of Vista, which was a victim of all the above when it was released.
I'm a console gamer first and foremost. I play a few RTS's on my XP, but it is getting old and isn't running very well (I got a lower-end Dell). I am in the market for a good machine to go to college with. I would lean more to a windows 7 than a vista or an XP.
well here's the thing it WAS slower than xp is, even on better equipment, slower pcs with xp was still faster and booted up and ran stuff better.Zewrath said:
the complaints comes from that every time that they come out with a new os, you NEED more ram and cpu power. however with other operating systems, that's not always the case and most of those will also run as fast, if not faster on the same equipment, with some exceptions.
if you want a good case in point, check out either linux, unix or their bastard child called osx. they actually still run well on older equipment when a new major version comes out, linux in particular became a LOT faster when switching from the 2.4.x kernel to the 2.6.x kernel. also most of the stuff that have been in those os's have been just recently appeared in win7 or vista and are being claimed as "revolutionary"
so the whole "i'm a mac" and "i'm a pc" thing has a LOT of validity. they were actually taking complaints of m$ os's and making them into a highly successful ad campaign, so much so that m$ actually tried to copy them
actually the whole thing is win7 actually had better memory usage than xp did on the same equipment, vista on the other hand had double the amount that xp had. so really it's not vista +5%"Gamers" also have a habbit of thinking that just because they spend 8 hours a day, in front of a computer, they actually know anything about. Fx: An idiot who keeps XP installed over all these years, justifying it with excuses that Vista is bad but in truth his computer only barerely meets the recommended requirement and he suddenly can't play his very very very old game he spends 8 hours a day with.
This tendency spreads and now for every thing that goes wrong people just say; "LoL Vista sucks"
Even if the problem isn't even slighty related to what OS you have.
I'm not saying that Vista is flawless... But Windows 7 = Vista + 5% and it isn't called Vista. The fact that it isn't called Vista makes people more open minded for it.
It's like Fable & Fable II, same stuff with few extra tweaks and improvements.
Edit: Sorry for my grammar and stuff..
also there are a lot of gamers who spend 8 hours a day playing that also happen to know a lot more than you think. most gamers actually are up on technology and a few of them keep upgrading their pcs and equipment. i'm pretty sure there are also a bunch of gamers that are in charge of large networks or server farms
It's alot different and well worth it. It's like a streamlined, prettier vista that operates way nicer on any computer, and doesn't have all the troubles vista had.Fat Man Spoon said:
it looks like snow leopard, has many of the features of snow leopard, but i still think snow leopard is better (my opinion, dont flame me people!). I just found a lot of the "new" stuff found in Windows 7 is stuff i got used to ages ago when i bought my Macbook...
I want to upgrade to 7 but of course my dad's being a huge dick about it, saying that if it's that great then "You'll buy it when you have money" knowing full well I work voluntarily for a local college and have no money.
He also picks convenient times to choose that the PC is "My responsiblity" when it's actually the "FAMILY" PC.
Any other time my family would complain that I spend too much time on the house PC, but when it comes to spending one, small amount of money for it (I found the Windows 7 upgrade package for £54, which is a fucking STEAL compared to other prices I've seen) then suddenly ownership shifts entirely over to me.
I'm gonna remember this next time someone tells me to get off this thing.
He also picks convenient times to choose that the PC is "My responsiblity" when it's actually the "FAMILY" PC.
Any other time my family would complain that I spend too much time on the house PC, but when it comes to spending one, small amount of money for it (I found the Windows 7 upgrade package for £54, which is a fucking STEAL compared to other prices I've seen) then suddenly ownership shifts entirely over to me.
I'm gonna remember this next time someone tells me to get off this thing.
From what I've heard it has vista's layout but it doesn't take nearly as much processing power just to run it.
Its because people still go by the experience they had at release and forget Vista has had two service packs since fixing core issues. Also driver support has had time to mature.Fat Man Spoon said:
People gush over XP but they forget that it too was only decent once sp2 was released.
But not like it stops anyone jumping on the bandwagon of "lolvista".
I got Windows 7 shipped with my new PC, and its been a substantial upgrade shipped in with my new PC, and its a substantial upgrade from my old XP operating system. It doesn't seen incredibly different from Vista after they got all the fixes in, though it does have a strange habit of using 42% of my 8 GB of memory after running for four hours. Hard drive usage hasn't been a problem so far (though I doubt it'll ever be, seeing I have 1 TB), but I've only been running it for a week so...
Windows Vista was all fine and dandy, but 7 really improved upon it a lot. I love my Win7 Pro x64, and in the month and a half I've been using it, I've all but forgotten about Old Man XP.
Also, after just having discovered the magic of Libraries, my laziness has increased tenfold.
It's outdated technology, pure and simple, and modern PCs are far better off with 64-bit OS's.
Also, after just having discovered the magic of Libraries, my laziness has increased tenfold.
How did you come about that conclusion? Have you looked at benchmarks between the OS's? Are you aware that XP's memory cap is 3.25GB?RAND00M said:
It's outdated technology, pure and simple, and modern PCs are far better off with 64-bit OS's.