It’s fair to say that many folks are cautiously optimistic regarding the prospects of Windows 7. One reason why, I believe, is its improved ability to run on netbooks. (Vista is sorta unruly on netbooks, as you might imagine.) Laptop mag did the heavy lifting and installed the Windows 7 beta (which is easy to find on the usual BitTorrent sites, by the way) on the Asus Eee PC 1000H.
Surprise, surprise: Windows 7 works quite well on the little guy.
With only a 1.6GHz Atom processor and 1GB of RAM, the Eee PC 1000H was able to boot into Windows in just under one minute—58 seconds, to be exact.
All-around performance seems to be good, too: only about half of the netbook’s RAM was eaten by the operating system. Running fancy applications like Skype and GIMP—calling GIMP fancy must be some sort of sin—also worked well. They even managed to play 720p video with only a few bumps and bruises.
Not too bad, then. And just think: we’re still at least one year away from Windows 7’s release, which is plenty of time to optimize the operating system’s code.
Microsoft, we’re secretly rooting for you. Don’t screw it up. Again.
I’m actually giddy for Windows 7.
Die a hard one Apple.
Snow Leopard will blow Windows 7 out of the water. I can’t believe you would be so easily swayed by marketing gimmicks.
If Microsoft actually produces a decent OS, Apple will have to as well, instead of just putting one out and winning by default.
Exactly. The best thing for all of us is a robust Windows 7. That ensures Apple doesn’t become complacent with OS X. Nothing wrong with more choice.
If you want to run Skype, Firefox, Gimp… Why would you need Windows 7 for?
Photoshop would be too much for the PC (specially CS4), MSIE 7 sucks (let’s hope IE8 does a better job) … Unless you plan to, say, use Windows Live Messenger, Mail, Writer or something like that… I don’t see the case of needing Windows 7 to run Skype, Firefox, Gimp (from a cost perspective).
Granted, it’s amazing that any Windows runs so cool under so low spec, let’s hope 7 is the answer we were looking for in Vista (yes yours is fine, well mine never was).
How come Skype keeps shutting down after a few seconds on start-up on 64-bit Windows 7 Alpha Build 6801? Anyone have these problems with Skype on 64-bit Windows 7?
In case you still needed help on that one:
Skype as a number of other software has compatibility issues with Windows 7. The latest beta of Skype seems to fix some of these. Try that. =)
Windows 7 also makes a goog impression on an older Tablet PC (Motion Computing LE1600). I have installed it and posted here:
http://max.zamorsky.name/2009/01/13/windows7-auf-einem-motion-computing-le1600-tablet-pcwindows7-on-a-motion-computing-le1600-tablet-pc/
Yes, Windows 7 is much better that this proprietary scrap of Apple. If you want free software run Lunix, is you want proprietary software, Windows, If you what to pay for some rebuild Linux, run Apple.
Yes, Windows 7 is much better that this proprietary scrap of Apple. If you want free software run Linux, is you want proprietary software, Windows, If you what to pay for some rebuild Linux, run Apple.