shattered horizon, just cause 2... battlefield (The last one) cant run more than 1xAA
its coming lol..Benefits of Win7 over XP
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shattered horizon, just cause 2... battlefield (The last one) cant run more than 1xAA
its coming lol..
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Oh, and security, supposedly.
Oh, and security, supposedly.
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I hope I'm not hijacking here. It's just I noticed someone (Neodite) mentioned Windows 8 here, but isn't Windows 7 really NT 6.1? (and Vista was NT 6.0)
It would have to be really low spec. Windows 7 does very well on lower end hardware and minimal RAM. I know you know this from the VMs you and I have both run
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It's all an evolution of the NT kernel, just like 2000 was NT5 and XP 5.1. I don't see what relevance that has though.
And in this case Windows 7 comes from the fact it's build number is 7000. Technically 7600 now.
Full version is 6.1.7600
Microsoft already gave reasons why they did not use 7.0 for Windows 7 and instead used 6.1, from memory the stated reason was program compatability as some check this version number and by retaining it as 6.x it would cause less issues. Unfortunately the usual crowd jumped on this and called W7 a Vista service pack.
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Calling it a Vista service pack is unfair, there are a lot of new (and good) features. OTOH it is much closer to Vista than Vista is to XP or XP is to 98/2000 (lets forget ME ever existed ). 'Vista 2' would be a better term, a Service Pack implies they should have given it free ot Vista users (and maybe they should have, but it's different enough to be it's own product IMO).
Obviously they couldn't all it 'Vista 2' though, that would have been a disaster. I think using a number was also a way of getting the tech crowd more on board, in general they/we always hated terms like 'XP' and 'Vista'.
). 'Vista 2' would be a better term, a Service Pack implies they should have given it free ot Vista users (and maybe they should have, but it's different enough to be it's own product IMO). Obviously they couldn't all it 'Vista 2' though, that would have been a disaster. I think using a number was also a way of getting the tech crowd more on board, in general they/we always hated terms like 'XP' and 'Vista'.
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Calling it a Vista service pack is unfair, there are a lot of new (and good) features. OTOH it is much closer to Vista than Vista is to XP or XP is to 98/2000 (lets forget ME ever existed
Obviously they couldn't all it 'Vista 2' though, that would have been a disaster. I think using a number was also a way of getting the tech crowd more on board, in general they/we always hated terms like 'XP' and 'Vista'.
XP is very similar to 2000 but very different to 98 (which used a totally different kernal). If someone says that 7 is just a service pack for vista then by that logic so is XP a SP for 2000. It simply doesn't hold water.
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TBH I doubt it even came up. It's such a non-issue.
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I flinch when I turn my netbook on and see that green start button... shame I got the SSD version which can't take standard W7 installations. I should really shrink it down and get it on there.
If you've got anything better than a P4+1gb, you should be using Win7, it's as simple as that.
As a user experience, it's massively improved. The start menu search bar is almost enough of a reason to change in itself!
Windows key, "harry" and I'm a click away from my eBooks, my friend Harry's CV, my Harry Potter DVD rips, and the "Harry" episode of dexter.
If you've got anything better than a P4+1gb, you should be using Win7, it's as simple as that.
As a user experience, it's massively improved. The start menu search bar is almost enough of a reason to change in itself!
Windows key, "harry" and I'm a click away from my eBooks, my friend Harry's CV, my Harry Potter DVD rips, and the "Harry" episode of dexter.
I really want to switch to Windows 7, but not being able to get my Skarkoon Quick Sata Pro working via eSata is a bit of a blow. There's also no option to turn off the SPDIF electrically in the Realtek HD audio manager as there is in XP, but a lot of things are so much better.
The AHCI driver actually passes the HDD S.M.A.R.T data unlike in XP/MCE and my KWorld DVB-T100 card is utterly transformed in the media center, full interactive features, text and subtitles.
Unified drivers on the whole seem to work much better.
The AHCI driver actually passes the HDD S.M.A.R.T data unlike in XP/MCE and my KWorld DVB-T100 card is utterly transformed in the media center, full interactive features, text and subtitles.
Unified drivers on the whole seem to work much better.
I absolutely love the driver support in W7. Usually the biggest pain of an XP install is hunting down and installing drivers and the million restarts. With 7 you can in most cases use it right away with its built-in drivers.