My computer specs: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0 GHz ,Memory: 8 GB RAM 1066 ,HD: Western Digital 1TB SATA, 32 MB cache , GeForce GTX 260
Last night, I reformatted my drive and installed Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit). From the minute I started the reformat to the time I checked my email from Firefox within Windows 7, about 90 minutes had passed.
Windows 7 natively supported my video card and auto-detected my widescreen monitor. My DVD-RW drive worked immediately. I didn’t need to install drivers from any of my hardware driver disks laying around – everything just worked!
That included my internet. It took me a whole 3 minutes to activate windows, visit Windows Update, install the updates, and restart.
I use Snow Leopard OS X at work. I also installed Ubuntu 9 on my home computer earlier this year. Both of those operating systems feel like toys compared to Windows 7. Ubuntu doesn’t work well, and when you need help, all you can find online is: “Oh that problem is simple, just run these 432 unix commands.” Forget that! If I wanted to run command line prompts, why install an OS in the first place?! And don’t get me started on OS X.
Bottom line: Windows 7 installed quick, painlessly, and functioned perfectly out of the box. I had no hardware issues, no problem with my internet connection being detected, and I found all of the customization settings in the first place that I looked. Windows 7 is awesome in the first 24 hours… let’s hope the next 24 hours (and 24 months) are the same.
1 MONTH UPDATE: Still loving Windows 7. I tried a virtual build of ChromeOS as I’m excited for more cloud apps, but that generation of computing is obviously still in its infancy. I’m happy with Windows 7 as I wait patiently for a cloud-based OS to mature into something usable.
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