Windows 7 - Astonishing, Astounding, Awesome, Awful

Markus 3 months ago on Wordpress

Wow, there’s alot of fanboys out there defending this product like it was a belief system they based their lives on.

I’m not upgrading any of my company’s 20 computers until after this OS has all of the bugs hammered out of it.

The fanboys can be the QA testers if they like.

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Terry 3 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress

You want to know what I think… I think you are an idiot for attempting to write about something you haven’t even tested.

” I don’t like graphics-intensive (or pretty). To me, it’s a waste of cpu cycles. ”

With windows 7 you have PLENTY cpu cycles to waste. Actually windows 7 will give you back 6 weeks of you life per year you waste sitting and twiddling your thumbs, waiting on an older os to give your computer back to you. That’s if you only use your computer 50 hrs per week.

Do this… open a command prompt and run this command:

Winsat mem

I got 15427.87 MB/s with 3 GB DDR3 and I7 processor.

I don’t know what it reports under Vista but Win 7 is better designed to take advantage of multi-core multi-thread processing. Device Manager / processor show

I have 8 processors running. That’s why video editing is done in less than half the time under Win 7 with I7 processors.

Windows 7 can scale up to 256 processors without performance penalty. ‘Windows 7 performs several tricks to keep threads running on the same execution pipelines

so that the underlying Nehalem processor can turn off transistors on lesser-used or inactive pipelines. The primary benefit of this feature is reduced energy consumption, with Windows 7 requiring 17 percent less power to run than Windows XP or Vista.”

I mostly ran Windows ME except on a laptop till 7 Rc came out. So I’m definitely not a Fanboy… but your lame report does have me riled up.

The TRUE sucker is one who can’t recognize talent. You are like the pinball company folks who were visited by a couple guys who had a little video game called pong. They laughed and said..”who would pay a quarter to play a ping pong game on a screen when they could do it on a table” The guys went on to form a company called Atari that TOTALLY put ALL the pinball companies out of business within 6 short years. You keep writing reviews like this one and your credibility will be shot is far less time. As a matter of fact, it’s already shot since you can’t take back what you have published…. and you have speculated on somthing you have 0 knowledge about. ... See all content Hide content

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sweed 3 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress

Ahh… so now that Microsoft finally has a GREAT OS and product its a bad thing to be a part of the crowd to get a first copy. But when Apple launches a new phone or iPod that is not much different than the one before, its a complete must to stand in line for hours to get a peek at it, and if you didn’t your the looser.

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elpirillo 3 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

chrispirillo: Windows 7: astonishing, astounding, awesome, awful. http://bit.ly/3tOLtG [Quadruple A? Do they ha.. http://bit.ly/nzOHa

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Simeon 3 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress

The excitement about Windows 7 seems more related to the fact that:

(1) it’s the first new operating system from MS in years (although, functionally, it’s really Vista with a lot of implemented fixes),

(2) it’s a relief from XP and Vista, for those that found it troublesome, and

(3) it’s something new, and some enthusiasts want to be first adopters . ... See all content Hide content

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chrispirillo 3 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Windows 7: astonishing, astounding, awesome, awful. http://bit.ly/3tOLtG [Quadruple A? Do they have a towing service?]

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Jake 3 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress

Im not a fanboy, but windows is not for you, your evaluations seem to be irriating, you take it way to seriously more then the average reviewer of this operating system, why bother, you seem like your not happy with anything you see, and pretty graphics bother’s you, when windows 7 is still compatible fully with a DirectX9 graphics card unit. Get with it bud or don’t bother, their our alot of fanboys out their who are upset about microsoft’s success, as their our probly other’s who are extremely happy. You may have several opinions that people may like to here, but let’s face it their’s always NEgativety surprisingly it’s in this article, and it’s on chris’s website, and it’s VERY UNFORTUNITE.

Tests…

results…

You need to be less serious and be happy with what you got. ... See all content Hide content

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