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Re: Windows 7
I've downloaded and installed both the 32-bit version of Windows 7 onto my laptop and the 64-bit version onto the media center computer in our apartment. What's surprised me the most is not only the remarkable increase in performance over Vista, but that it hardly needs any additional drivers out of the box to actually work.
On my laptop, on Windows XP I had about a dozen drivers to install. After wiping the hard drive and installing Windows 7 fresh, I only had to install audio driver, touchpad driver (to get the ability to scroll webpages, as otherwise it worked), and a general Dell driver (to make all those Fn keys work). On the media center computer, which was also wiped clean before install, I only had to install an ethernet driver. Previously on Vista, it took hours to get all the drivers on this machine to play nice with each other.
Back when it was running Vista, our media center computer couldn't play Blu-Ray discs at all; they would play but the video was so choppy it was unwatchable. After upgrading to Windows 7, using the same software to play the disc, the performance gain was actually enough to make low-action scenes entirely watchable. It was only during high-action scenes where stuff was very fast moving where the computer bogged down and became choppy.
I'm really impressed with Windows 7 so far, as it's light-years better than Vista. So far,
7 is to Vista as XP was to ME.
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