I've been a long time XP user/cheap PC user. I had the IBM laptop for roughly 7 years. On it was XP Professional SP3. Just put in my final orders for my new rig. Finally a good PC. Anyways, I just came into a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and I must say... Awesome.
You see, since the backlight in my IBM finally blew out I reverted to my girl friends Acer (laptop) which was running Vista. What a POS. Consistently crashing. The CPU would shut down due to over heating when running apps such as MS Word... On idle, the core temps were hitting 70c, 90c under load, and it was doing this since day 1 out of the package. Naturally, I decided to use her laptop as kind of a "tester" for Windows 7 Ultimate before putting it in my new custom PC. What a difference! It's about as load-less as XP was, with more "UMPH".
Idle temps are now 50c, 70c under load, and no crashing. I've barely scratched the surface of this OS and I'm already loving it. Starts right up, no bloatwear, installation was a breeze (hardly had to press a button... Honestly), nifty little "gadgets"... I'm sold. I'm bought and didn't have to spend a penny on it no thanks to a good nerdy friend. Can't wait to get my parts in and put this sucker in a REAL PC.
5/5, 10/10... Highly recommend this OS to anyone still using Vista, or even XP. Seriously, to me it's like XP on crack.
Okay, I'm done boasting.
You see, since the backlight in my IBM finally blew out I reverted to my girl friends Acer (laptop) which was running Vista. What a POS. Consistently crashing. The CPU would shut down due to over heating when running apps such as MS Word... On idle, the core temps were hitting 70c, 90c under load, and it was doing this since day 1 out of the package. Naturally, I decided to use her laptop as kind of a "tester" for Windows 7 Ultimate before putting it in my new custom PC. What a difference! It's about as load-less as XP was, with more "UMPH".
Idle temps are now 50c, 70c under load, and no crashing. I've barely scratched the surface of this OS and I'm already loving it. Starts right up, no bloatwear, installation was a breeze (hardly had to press a button... Honestly), nifty little "gadgets"... I'm sold. I'm bought and didn't have to spend a penny on it no thanks to a good nerdy friend. Can't wait to get my parts in and put this sucker in a REAL PC.
5/5, 10/10... Highly recommend this OS to anyone still using Vista, or even XP. Seriously, to me it's like XP on crack.
Okay, I'm done boasting.