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Is 7 any good?
RustY © wrote:
I've been told that 7 is a limited version of windos for laptops. Is anyone running anything bigger on it [successfully]. Doesn't include a mail program if that is what you mean. You can download the flaky "Live Mail" junk, but I prefer Thunderbird. Win 7 is Vista regurgitated. Same performance isues but they did improve the Aero a little by removing the smoothness and frame rates. Appears faster but is chunky. But if you benchmark disk and network copies, same issues as Vista. The gadget bar has changed, some resolutions cause overlap and spacing is more like the desktop. A step backwards in my opinion. Certainly not worth $$ to upgrade. In fact I reverted back to Vista. AMD X4 9750, ATI 4350, 8GB RAM, 750GB and 1TB drives. Didn't waste my time putting it on a similarly equiped Q6600. |
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Is 7 any good?
"Canuck57" wrote in message ... Win 7 is Vista regurgitated. Same performance isues Actually not. Certainly not here on the same hardware that I ran Vista on. One thing I have noticed - the undocumented, unacknowledged "feature" that Vista has/had, of randomly dropping the wireless internet connection (not the WLAN, just the Internet), has been fixed in 7... |
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hi guys
I recently imaged my vista home prem. x32 and formatted and installed win 7 pro. It took me 3 tries to finally get it to work well. I have a Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop I am working with and win 7 pro had no support for the ATI mobility radeon x1400 video adapter. So I figured I would try one of the MS built in drivers for ATI cards as it was assigning only a standard VGA driver. So after some research and seeing what may be working for others, I manually updated the device and tried 2 drivers, both actually worked fine and was stable for me. The first was just the radeon x1300 driver ( no mobility, but the desktop version) and then I tried the x1600 and that is what I have been using. Nice system, according to Dell the inspiron e1705 was not compatible, but I got it to work fine after fighting with the video issues. I originally tried the Dell vista ati driver and it worked, but on reboot screen went black and had to shutdown several times. After the third format and install, I figured out the video issue and the radeon x1600 (desktop driver I assume) is working well. Base score on performance gives me a 3.6 which is fine with me. I also ran direct x diagnostics (dxdiag.exe in system32 folder) and it showed no problems with the display. I thought this to be kind of funny that this driver is working for me, but I would not advise this for anyone else. my experience may not be good for someone else depending on their system. Many are having display issues and this is how I got mine working. Ati (amd) are not bothering with "older" cards to update their drivers, but supposedly MS has one on their update server, but as long as this is working, I will not chance using MS driver. Hopefully I will find the proper driver down the road somewhere after this has been out for awhile. I am a computer tech for about 11 years now and always advise folks to wait for at least 6 months to a year before upgrading. I do not advise "upgrades", as that is asking for trouble but some folks prefer that as it is usually less expensive. clean installs are best if you can do it, as long as you save your necessary data. I do believe you can do clean full installs using the upgrade version according to windows secrets newsletter. So far I really like the memory management, it is far better than Vista was. I am learning how to get into the system and customize and tweak, but so far I am impressed with the stability and performance, although in some cases it is a bit slower than Vista, most though it is on par. I still have to shake my head at the sheer size of both Vista and win 7...my install was clean, and it came in around 8 GB without additional software installed, so I trimmed some size by putting the pagefile on another partition, I image drives/partitions regularly for backups, so I shut off "system restore" feature. Got it down to around 6.5 GB before I installed AV and a few other programs. It will be awhile before some companies get their apps coded for win 7, but many vista and older apps work just fine so far other than firewalls. be careful with firewall software, I do advise getting a good software firewall, but it can cause havoc if not totally compatible with win 7, just a warning. Working well, hope this helps someone who is having any issues with display cards. i think this will do much better than Vista did, although I did not have any major problems with vista other than it was such a memory hog lol. all my best Jim --- Top wrote: In article , says... I've been told that 7 is a limited version of windos for laptops. Is anyone running anything bigger on it [successfully]. I'm having good results running Win 7 on a 5 year old Dell desktop. Better than Vista I would say although I had no major problems with Vista either. Win 7 installed with no effort from me. It is a bit slower to load than I would like but as I said this is an older machine, 3 ghz processor with 2 gb ram. I'm using Win 7 Pro. |
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In article , jimmywin7
says... I have a Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop I am working with and win 7 pro had no support for the ATI mobility radeon x1400 video adapter. You should have installed the Windows XP video card driver, Win 7 permits it and it's worked fine on my laptop that doesn't have native Vista/Win 7 video card drivers. -- You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that. Trust yourself. (remove 999 for proper email address) |
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