Windows 7 Beta: Performance

Jan 14 2009

After having used Vista for 2 years since I got my Dell, I’ve to say that it’s the slowest, buggiest version of Windows by far, even beating Windows ME for the title. Random lockups, sluggish UI, more random lockups, skipping audio, inability to delete/copy/move files in any reasonable amount of time (“Calculating remaining time” anyone?) to name a few of the problems that plagued Vista.

Windows 7 seem to have fixed all that. It just works (so far). None of the earlier problems are prevalent in 7. Speedy UI, effortless file operations, and no more skipping audio.

Let’s just hope it stays this way. Sad that I keep applying the (so far) qualifier to anything I have to say about Windows 7 — Microsoft has let me down too many times before.

3 responses so far

  1. Abdullah Zainul Abidin
    on 15 Jan 2009 at 6:16 am

    Microsoft has let you down too many times before? Then come on the open source revolution and ride the Linux wave.. :D Ubuntu – Fedora – Debian – Slackware – Arch – They’re all good.. :)

  2. J. Donner
    on 15 Jan 2009 at 5:46 pm

    Strange…I have none of the problems in Vista that plagued you and I’m 100% hinest. There could be several reasons;

    1. I work in the IT since ‘87, so I guess I’m supposed to more know more about computers
    2. I think I run descent hardware to run Vista, in my case a Q9450 Quad, 8800GT, 8GB RAM and fast hard drives with 110 MB/sec transer speed (most drives reach only 60-75MB sec)
    3. I did a fresh install of Vista
    4. I never installed SP1, I installed a fresh copy of Vista with SP1 integrated
    5. Everthing is up-to-date, which includes things like lates updates, hardware drivers, bios updates, chipset updates, etc
    6. Hardware was built by myself and has gone through long stress and diagnostics tests before I intalled Vista.
  3. Kevin Francis
    on 16 Jan 2009 at 1:01 am

    @Abdullah, I’m already on the Linux wave. Have been for 10 years already :) Good to keep up with the competition though :P

    @Donner I’m not sure whether that’s a seriously genuine comment or a seriously sarcastic one :P

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