Windows 7 in the real world
by Ed Bott | October 12, 2009 9:09pm PDT | Image 1 of 44
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An impressively fast desktop PC
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For a desktop PC that was built nearly two years ago, this Dell XPS 420 desktop PC earns impressive scores on the new Windows Experience Index, which maxes out at 7.9.
For the full story, read my companion post: Windows 7 in the real world: 10 PCs under the microscope
For a desktop PC that was built nearly two years ago, this Dell XPS 420 desktop PC earns impressive scores on the new Windows Experience Index, which maxes out at 7.9.
For the full story, read my companion post: Windows 7 in the real world: 10 PCs under the microscope
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Yes, Win 7 boots to the point where it can runs apps and shuts down faster than XP or Vista. It also installs a lot of drivers (LINUX fashion) when it is installed,and it is a little more stable than XP due to being picky about what it'll let you install particularly with legacy apps. BUT other than that I find very little difference in real world app speeds. (I've yet to run MS Flight sim on it) I've mentioned before, I'll be running XP for a very long time as I have some expensive legacy hardware that is no longer made and drivers are not available for either Vista or Win 7. Oh! After running Win 7 Beta, and Win 7 RC on two quad core machines since it came out I find it to be a royal pain in the back side when it comes to networking with non Win 7 machines and twice I've had the network running when "updates" blew workgroups right out of the water. One time required reinstalling Win 7 to get it to work again. Part of this may be do to working with a new OS, but I never had this kind of problem with either XP or Vista networking. Although Win 7 is "prettier" than XP and my machines will settle in with XP Pro, Win 7, and Fedora in either a multi boot, or multi disk OS installation where I select the OS by selecting the boot disk from the BIOS at boot time.
There is nothing in the "new" Windows 7 -including all the claimed "WoW, Gee Whiz" so-called features that I do not have in my PC Workstation running FreeBSD 7.2 with latest KDE 4.3.1 graphical Desktop, with one very notable exception - I don't have the very serious vulnerability documented here;
http://fsfe.org/news/2009/news-20091019-01.en.html
nor any other of the low performance, poor reliability or severe security issues that plague Microsoft Operating Systems Software on an ongoing basis.
W. Anderson
wanderson@nac.net
http://fsfe.org/news/2009/news-20091019-01.en.html
nor any other of the low performance, poor reliability or severe security issues that plague Microsoft Operating Systems Software on an ongoing basis.
W. Anderson
wanderson@nac.net
Sorry sounds like FSFE tooting their own horn on this one judging from your link and the profound use of propaganda statements. Hardly any average user will be concerned with this exploit in which will be fixed in their initial run of patches. Also there is a workaround for this issue which is fairly easy and is another part of administering servers and workstations:
http://www.doecirc.energy.gov/bulletins/t-228.shtml
Those mostly reading these blogs are more interested in Windows 7 based system performance then hearing about your FreeBSD. Try putting FreeBSD into a corporate network with 1000+ users, administer it, and dont get me started on training users on even basic use.....no sir, FreeBSD doesnt allow this and is why linux will NEVER be the choice of IT departments to disperse to large environments despite small security holes that GPO and other abilities can be put in place to protect the network and infastructure.
Now if you don't mind, we're discussing Win 7 performance, not linux vs Win vulnerabilities silly rabbit.
http://www.doecirc.energy.gov/bulletins/t-228.shtml
Those mostly reading these blogs are more interested in Windows 7 based system performance then hearing about your FreeBSD. Try putting FreeBSD into a corporate network with 1000+ users, administer it, and dont get me started on training users on even basic use.....no sir, FreeBSD doesnt allow this and is why linux will NEVER be the choice of IT departments to disperse to large environments despite small security holes that GPO and other abilities can be put in place to protect the network and infastructure.
Now if you don't mind, we're discussing Win 7 performance, not linux vs Win vulnerabilities silly rabbit.
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