I was particularly looking forward to this weekend. It was going to be a welcome break from the intensity of preparing for university examinations. While I did get up to many hours of Star Ocean on the 360 I also did some work on my laptop.
Earlier this month my friend Daniel lent me his copy of Windows 7 when we hung out at Sidetracked and had a wild night. Well, this weekend was the perfect opportunity to let the new operating system loose on my trusty laptop. It took me a couple hours to backup my data to my new portable harddrive due to the sheer volume of data I had stored on the machine, but after the task was done it was time to reformat and install Windows.
The installation procedure in its entirety was done very quickly. I’ve have assumed it was done within half an hour but I did it while playing Star Ocean so I didn’t really gauge time accurately at all (I didn’t check on the machine till about 5 hours had passed haha). Then did the usual thing of installing all my usual applications plugins etc and got Windows doing its work.
There’s been a big fuss over the new system being more resource efficient. Well from what I’ve experienced so far Windows 7 does appear to be less processor intensive than Vista but it seems it uses just as much RAM as its predecessor. However, what really brings home the “wow factor” is the user interface overhaul, particularly the new taskbar. The interface changes at first seem minor but they feel so natural and one can quickly become accustomed to them. Using Windows becomes more pleasurable than it ever has been.
Finally, a lot of people like to kick up a storm over Windows being inferior to other operating systems in terms of susceptibility to hackers, trojans and viruses. Its all a load of rubbish with people getting overexcited and buying in to the hype. Really, if you’re diligent enough to install an antivirus and run regular scans you’ll rarely face any virus problems at all. Windows’ inbuilt firewall and anti-spyware does a fairly decent job too. It’s just the naive and stupid that fall prey to malicious software and people.
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thank you! I really liked this post!
aww you don’t have to thank me victory, the pleasure was all mine hehe
nah seriously that was a cool post, thank you for your words and thoughts. It was very inspiring to read your take on the last 10 years. In so many ways feels like a lot longer then 10…
hope to catch you soon, and keep writing!
xx