Five years later.... Is it any good?

Abz Hussain

Abz Hussain

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I have not used ms windows since 2007. The endless bugs, crashes and problems made me switch to mac. Now, im not a fanboy or anything but osx has been good to me and nowhere near caused the grief windows did.
However, i hear this new windows 7 is a breath of fresh air. Less buggy, more stable etc.
So, i ask you, users of win7, what is your experience of it?
Should i take a serious look at ms windows again. Thanks.
 
Never have had any problems with windows 7 ultimate 64 bit, been extremely stable, only had 1 or 2 blue screens since using it, but this was due to my GPU, everything just works the way it should. Been using 7 ever since the RC was released. Don't know how long I have had this current copy installed, would be at least a year though and it is still as fast and smooth as what it was when I first installed it and this is on a mechanical hard drive with a number of installations/uninstallations, modding windows with tweaks, themes etc.

*touch wood*

Had a lot more problems with XP.

No harm in trying it out and if you don't like it, you can always go back :)
 
Nexus18 said:
Never have had any problems with windows 7 ultimate 64 bit, been extremely stable, only had 1 or 2 blue screens since using it, but this was due to my GPU, everything just works the way it should. Been using 7 ever since the RC was released. Don't know how long I have had this current copy installed, would be at least a year though and it is still as fast and smooth as what it was when I first installed it and this is on a mechanical hard drive with a number of installations/uninstallations, modding windows with tweaks, themes etc.

*touch wood*

Had a lot more problems with XP.

No harm in trying it out and if you don't like it, you can always go back :)
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Thanks for your input, very helpful. Marks out of ten from would be?
 
No problem! :)

It all depends what you use your PC/MAC for at the end of the day and which styling/UI you prefer. Personally I don't like the OSX one bit, too simple for my liking, not enough features and very limited to customization etc.


9/10 from my usage with 7.

Can't really fully rate it properly though as I don't use every single feature, main things are browsing (waterfox), games, bit of photoshop (adobe photoshop), films (media player classic with LAV codecs), music (winamp).

Main things installed that are always running is eset nod 32 AV, comodo firewall, peerblock, display fusion and then obviously the other standard things like ATI CCC etc. and I also turned off user account control (IMO there is no need for it, others will say different though).

Never had any viruses, spyware or anything with the above setup and windows 7, there has been the odd time a website will have a banner or something, but NOD quarantines it straight away :)

*touch wood again* :p


Trying to think off what I don't like about 7 at the minute and tbph I really am struggling to think of anything, lol.
 
Nexus18 said:
No problem! :)

It all depends what you use your PC/MAC for at the end of the day and which styling/UI you prefer. Personally I don't like the OSX one bit, too simple for my liking, not enough features and very limited to customization etc.


9/10 from my usage with 7.

Can't really fully rate it properly though as I don't use every single feature, main things are browsing (waterfox), games, bit of photoshop (adobe photoshop), films (media player classic with LAV codecs), music (winamp).

Main things installed that are always running is eset nod 32 AV, comodo firewall, peerblock, display fusion and then obviously the other standard things like ATI CCC etc. and I also turned off user account control (IMO there is no need for it, others will say different though).

Never had any viruses, spyware or anything with the above setup and windows 7, there has been the odd time a website will have a banner or something, but NOD quarantines it straight away :)

*touch wood again* :p


Trying to think off what I don't like about 7 at the minute and tbph I really am struggling to think of anything, lol.
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Thank you once again. Quite a glowing testimonial there. Similar to what i have heard from others.
I will be using a pc to do some financial trading and some gaming. Both of these cant really be done my macbook pro as the apps, especially trading ones are few and far between or not very good.

Gaming, not all that on mac.
Looks like i might just give it a go. Thanks
 
Since 2000/XP, Windows has been solid. It's dodgy drivers and 3rd party crapware that throw a spanner in the works
 
It's taken them this long, but Windows 7 is a breath of fresh air - it's everything Vista promised and more.

I just hope they dont go pushing Windows 8 too hard as I've had a play and I'm not overly impressed so far.
 
Windows 7 is the best os I've every used. I've never had a mac so can't compare I'm afraid. I even liked Vista, but it needed a few gigs of ram otherwise it was sluggish, and as far as I can tell the eye-candy wasn't very well optimised - it ran fine on my pc, but on a laptop circa 2007 it was troublesome. I have W7 64 on my PC and it's still on it's first installation (going on 2.5 years now) if that's anything to go by. I have W7 starter on my netbook (no eye-candy) but runs great, and still have XP on my old laptop which is ticking along nicely.
 
Abz Hussain said:
Thank you once again. Quite a glowing testimonial there. Similar to what i have heard from others.
I will be using a pc to do some financial trading and some gaming. Both of these cant really be done my macbook pro as the apps, especially trading ones are few and far between or not very good.

Gaming, not all that on mac.
Looks like i might just give it a go. Thanks
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No problem! :)

Be sure to post your thoughts back here, once you have had a good play with 7 :)
 
As a fan (since 2009) of OSX despite growing up with DOS/Windows I'd say W7 is rock solid. The OS powers my main gaming/media machine and hasn't given me any issues at all. I use OSX mainly on my 2009 Macbook.

Just avoid hardware powered by useless/bloated drivers i.e Creative and you're all set. W7 on an SSD is a scary combo.
 
Recently upgraded from Windows XP Pro to Win7 and can honestly say that I would never go back now. Everything runs as it should, memory management is loads better, the system it is on seems a lot quicker and smoother than it was.
 
It hurts at work I have to use Windows XP :( While all the new laptops coming for top management types have Windows 7 :(

Windows 7 is brilliant, it runs everything right, UAC is done right with just one prompt for the admin account. It runs fast, the taskbar the one thing at first I was unsure about being changed has even grown on me now and actually find having my regular programs right there a great move.


That being said, I've never had any problems with Windows apart from 98 when I was a young kid and installing it wiped the sound out :(.
 
Well i must admit, i expected to hear maybe one or two horror stories but so far its been nothing but praise for WIN 7.
Thank you everyone, you have most definitely given me the confidence to give it a try.
 
Windows 7 home premium 64-bit is very good, but i am using an i7-860 - gtx580 -8gb ram - ssd so it's bound to run very well with this kind of hardware. Only problems i have really had is with some games won't play nice be them new or old. It's not that much better than windows xp 32-bit, i still use windows xp on another ssd in ide mode and i can't really tell much of a difference in day to day use, most of my software runs without major issues on win 7 or win xp, very subjective, imho.
 
kedge said:
Windows 7 home premium 64-bit is very good, but i am using an i7-860 - gtx580 -8gb ram - ssd so it's bound to run very well with this kind of hardware. Only problems i have really had is with some games won't play nice be them new or old. It's not that much better than windows xp 32-bit, i still use windows xp on another ssd in ide mode and i can't really tell much of a difference in day to day use, most of my software runs without major issues on win 7 or win xp, very subjective, imho.
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I think win 7 is a lot better than xp from what i can tell. My experience of xp is not good at all.
Thanks for input, all appreciated.
 
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