Why is everyone moving to Windows 7?

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11-01-2009, 02:58 PM
Calon

Why is everyone moving to Windows 7?

Why is everyone moving to Windows 7? It looks terrible.. why move? Vista - massive RAM abuser but it looks better than Windows 7.. or just use XP?
11-01-2009, 03:00 PM
Stephen!

Windows 7 is incredible. Unless you use it yourself, you wouldnt understand. And if you have, you are blind
11-01-2009, 03:01 PM
Calon

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Originally Posted by Stephen

Windows 7 is incredible. Unless you use it yourself, you wouldnt understand. And if you have, you are blind

What is new too it? I have seen a pile of rubbish about it. Everything looks ugly from the previews.
11-01-2009, 03:03 PM
Stephen!

The sheer speed of it is what atracts me. Uses only about 900MB of RAM. The new taskbar may look odd, but when you actually use it, it's not bad at all
11-01-2009, 03:17 PM
Calon

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Originally Posted by Stephen

The sheer speed of it is what atracts me. Uses only about 900MB of RAM. The new taskbar may look odd, but when you actually use it, it's not bad at all

900MB is a lot when you only have 1.75 GB.
11-01-2009, 03:22 PM
Swearwolf

I love it xD
11-01-2009, 03:22 PM
Stephen!

It's proportionate to how much RAM you have just like vista is. 900MB out of 8GB isn't alot.
11-01-2009, 03:25 PM
Source

Windows fanbois here ^_^ No just kidding.

I think its got a long way togo in terms of Gaming Performance/Rendering/Transcoding which I do regularly. XP just beats it hands down, but I prefer practical use over graphical and "new" applications.
11-01-2009, 03:27 PM
luce

How do you move? and also screenies?
11-01-2009, 03:30 PM
Agnostic Bear

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Originally Posted by Source

Windows fanbois here ^_^ No just kidding.

I think its got a long way togo in terms of Gaming Performance/Rendering/Transcoding which I do regularly. XP just beats it hands down, but I prefer practical use over graphical and "new" applications.

What are you talking about? It beats XP in most if not all benchmarks.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3236&page=2
11-01-2009, 03:44 PM
Chippiewill

The kernel for windows 7 is only 30mb... super fast
11-01-2009, 03:46 PM
Decode

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Originally Posted by LucyRAWRR

How do you move? and also screenies?

http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=551656 and http://windows7news.com/windows-7-screenshots/
11-01-2009, 04:11 PM
Jamesy

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Originally Posted by 00chips

The kernel for windows 7 is only 30mb... super fast

You know they dropped minwin to use server 08 right?

Everyones moving to it because it's new, and free in beta.
11-01-2009, 04:22 PM
Firehorse

Windows 7 is awsome, however i've been having trouble overclocking my gpu with rivatuner using it.
11-01-2009, 04:27 PM
Source

I'm going on personal experience, I am running both and I am saying for me XP beats it hands down. What is people's obsession with benchmarks on things that don't even relate to what tasks I'm performing. Which is gaming etc..
11-01-2009, 04:34 PM
---MAD---

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Originally Posted by Source

I'm going on personal experience, I am running both and I am saying for me XP beats it hands down. What is people's obsession with benchmarks on things that don't even relate to what tasks I'm performing. Which is gaming etc..

Don't forget it's still in beta so performance will only improve.
11-01-2009, 04:35 PM
Source

I of course know that, and the official drivers when released will make a nice boost. Its great for everything bar gaming, and transcoding. Its just smoother and faster on XP.
11-01-2009, 04:38 PM
Turbocom

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Originally Posted by 00chips

The kernel for windows 7 is only 30mb... super fast

The Vista kernel and 7 Kernel is the exact same. Its only gone through an upgrade, let me find the source that says this.
11-01-2009, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Calon

Why is everyone moving to Windows 7? It looks terrible.. why move? Vista - massive RAM abuser but it looks better than Windows 7.. or just use XP?

Opinion.

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Originally Posted by Calon

What is new too it? I have seen a pile of rubbish about it. Everything looks ugly from the previews.

Opinion.

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Originally Posted by Calon

900MB is a lot when you only have 1.75 GB.

Less then vista.

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Originally Posted by Stephen

It's proportionate to how much RAM you have just like vista is. 900MB out of 8GB isn't alot.

Fact

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Originally Posted by Source

I'm going on personal experience, I am running both and I am saying for me XP beats it hands down. What is people's obsession with benchmarks on things that don't even relate to what tasks I'm performing. Which is gaming etc..

Opinion

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Originally Posted by Source

I of course know that, and the official drivers when released will make a nice boost. Its great for everything bar gaming, and transcoding. Its just smoother and faster on XP.

Opinion.

What shocks me, is that I used to be an XP > Vista fanboy until I was forced to use vista, now I realise how much XP is worse. you should actually just go to Vista or 7.
11-01-2009, 07:13 PM
Nick.

I have to say Windows 7 is a huge improvement on Vista, it's like Vista, but they got it right this time.

Maybe I like it because it's becoming more Mac like... (bwahahaha, joking :P)
11-01-2009, 09:34 PM
blanky12!

Windows 7, it's brill, super fast as well I love it :).
11-01-2009, 09:39 PM
Luke

i have to say, that i've now been using vista and windows 7 for since november from windows xp.

And to me, windows xp is now, CRAP.
11-01-2009, 09:46 PM
Soy

It looks good so far but it's still in development so I wont rate anything yet
11-01-2009, 09:49 PM
blanky12!

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Originally Posted by YabbereR

i have to say, that i've now been using vista and windows 7 for since november from windows xp.

And to me, windows xp is now, CRAP.

I havn't used Windows XP on my home desktop PC since Vista came out.
12-01-2009, 06:24 PM
joshuar

I really don't like Vista, it just wasn't for me, it would use up too much RAM for me.

I really like Windows 7 however, it's speedy and cool at the same time, all the little niggles I had with Vista have been fixed (such as the links on the left side of a page, UAC etc). Can't wait to see the full release.
12-01-2009, 06:39 PM
The Professor

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Originally Posted by joshuar

I really don't like Vista, it just wasn't for me, it would use up too much RAM for me.

I really like Windows 7 however, it's speedy and cool at the same time, all the little niggles I had with Vista have been fixed (such as the links on the left side of a page, UAC etc). Can't wait to see the full release.

What he said ^ I wish I could compare directly to XP but I only have Vista and 7 on my laptop and can't install either on my desktop PC. But compared to vista its just miles ahead, the laptop's 1GB of RAM is pretty happy running under 7, I don't think I've had any slowdown at all yet.
12-01-2009, 06:42 PM
Source

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Originally Posted by Boonzeet

Opinion.
Opinion
Opinion.

How on earth is that an opinion? I am not picking this out of my backside I am clearly stating how XP is faster for what I am doing.

Its about 10 minutes quicker to encode a video into h264 with AAC audio for me, on XP - using ffmpeg/mencoder GUI.

I also get 20-30 FPS extra in source based games.
12-01-2009, 07:17 PM
GommeInc

I'm moving once it's officially out. Vista is fine for me the way it is, and apparently Creative X-Fi drivers aren't really supported.