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Windows 7: A Step Forward

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Updating from an older OS to a completely new one is anyway something you shouldn't do. Always buy the full new OS and do a fresh install.
 
Paws said:
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Updating from an older OS to a completely new one is anyway something you shouldn't do. Always buy the full new OS and do a fresh install.
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Sorry Paws. Thats Washington for ya!
 
sheep said:
Sorry Paws. Thats Washington for ya!
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I have been using 7 from the first public (cough, cough) release. It is the best OS they have ever published hands down. XP was great but the two don't compare.

Vista wasn't bad once you configured and tweaked it that isn't neccesary with 7. I do have a problem paying that much money for what is essentially Vista SP3 with added visual effects but it was worth it to me to buy the full retail ultimate and pro versions because everything works.
 
I'm going to continue to use OS X, but I have to say that Microsoft has done rather well with 7. I had the RC installed for many months on a partition on my MacBook Pro, and used it quite a bit. It definitely beat the heck out of Snow Leopard - I liked it at first but the bugs ended up bothering me that much that I downgraded back to 10.5.8 last night.
Might look into getting the full retail version of 7 and installing it via Boot Camp...
 
Keeland said:
RC = release candidate?

Interesting if you mean Windows 7 beat the heck out of Snow Leopard. If so, how?

I'm not sure whether you mean you downgraded to 10.5.8 for Mac. I have no clue as to Windows version numbers, so I don't know if you mean you downgraded to that OS version.
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10.x.x is the way that Apple numbers every version of OS X which is more commonly known by it's "big cat" name:

10.0 (2001) - "Cheetah"
10.1 (2001) - "Puma"
10.2 (2002) - "Jaguar"
10.3 (2003) - "Panther"
10.4 (2005) - "Tiger"
10.5 (2007) - "Leopard"
10.6 (2009) - "Snow Leopard"

So basically, 10.5.8 - when used in a computer-based discussion - refers to the 8th update for Leopard, 10.4.11 refers to the 11th update for Tiger, etc.
An interesting thing to note is that Apple markets their OS's using the actual name on the packaging and on their website (Leopard, Snow Leopard, etc) as opposed to the actual version number, yet the name does not appear anywhere in the OS itself - the system merely says "Mac OS X" followed by the version number.

Anyway, I'm getting off topic, huh? This is supposed to be about Windows 7... !oops!

I found that Windows 7, even the release candidate, was very fast and reliable. It booted fairly quickly and performed very well while having many programs open. I honestly can't say the same for Snow Leopard - it took almost twice as long to boot as Leopard did, regardless of what Apple is saying, and the way some apps behaved with it was pretty unacceptable, IMO. Apple's own iWork suite (their answer to Microsoft Office) would freeze on me just trying to open a blank template. Obviously it's still early days, but I feel that performance could have been way better considering they spent well over two years putting it together. Windows 7 was - as I said - just way more reliable in comparison (and that was the pre-release version!).
 
I started with a normal install but after upgrading the hard drive I did a clean install and start times were shortened after the first start.
It's a good idea to check all your 3rd party apps too for updates. I found a slew of them.
 
Keeland said:
^^^ Maybe the Mac hardware is uk-fayed or a Snow Leopard reinstall or clean install would fix it.

My 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo iMac running 10.6.1 takes 29 seconds to start from a cold boot. Safari then boots in a second or less. Firefox takes about three.
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I'd ended up doing one upgrade and two clean installs before I gave up and went back to Leopard. Still awaiting 10.6.2, if that gets decent reviews I may reupgrade. In the end I'm not totally surprised, I've ready many reports from users that Apple generally releases a somewhat buggy OS and fixes it over the first few updates. Over at MacRumors they seem to generally agree that Leopard was awful to use until the 10.5.2 update (some go as far as 10.5.4).
 
Keeland said:
From the first page of Sheep's link, above:The "new, Mac-like version of the taskbar:"

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New only for those whose memories fall short of the Control Strip going back to 1997 and Mac System 8:

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Let's hear it for MS innovation.
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Sorry but how exactly is the control strip in os 8 similar to the windows taskbar? Furthermore, the win 7 taskbar?

I've used os 7.52 for some time and to me the control strip has little to do with the taskbar. The control strip is more like the sis-tray to me...

The windows 7 taskbar now combines the sis-tray, the opened windows (programs) and the quick launch in one new taskbar. The control strip doesn't have this functionality whatsoever.
 
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