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Oh, you must be referring to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide:
I can't believe how happy I am right now!
I had an HP DV5030us notebook. I had so many problems with it. The motherboard finally croaked after not even a year, and it decided to kill external devices that were connected at the time.
So I take it down to Fry's because I have a warranty there and they'll give me a "loaner" while my system gets repaired. The loaner gets tested in the store. I get it home and try to open the DVD drive. Guess what? The DVD drive is malfunctioning! I traded one dead computer for another! *sigh*
So I have to take it back and get another (you can bet I will, I paid for that warranty and I'm going to get my moneys worth!).
Finally years of frustration of dealing with Windows and poorly built Windows PCs is just too much for me. I walk over to the Apple section and get a Mac!
I've got myself the white MacBook with SuperDrive. I haven't been this happy with a computer EVER. It simply just works and it doesn't come loaded with spyware and adware! I was able to turn it on and start using it! Not like my HP where I had to turn it on, wait half an hour for all the trial software and ads to load, reboot with XP DVD and reformat and not actually use my new PC until 6 hours later.
There are literally no words to describe how happy I am right now
So are there any killer apps I should be looking for?
Welll, it's been a few days now. I can't even begin to describe how great the experience is. After my many times attempting to switch to Linux, I was afraid that the switch to OS X would have some similarities.
But honestly, I'm right at home in OS X. It took me not even a full day to feel right at home. Everything works beautifully and I have yet to have any moments where I have found something I couldn't do in Windows. Infact, everything so far has ben better than Windows. It's amazing how ancient Windows XP feels now after using OS X for even just a few days. I mean, I've used it in the past. But you never get a real feel for it until you get it in your home, you know?
I'm completely amazed, really.
This is honestly the first and maybe even only computer I can say I have been truly satisfied with.
Awesome list
Ooh I forgot......
I'm loving the 27.8 second boot time
Much better than the 2:32 start up time I had in Windows MCE!
We'll leave it at that...
Yep - quite the bitter divorcee, after the honeymoon - belligerent, hostile, and an over-the top whiner - looking forward.
My Macbook Pro with an SSD boot Win 7 in 20 seconds. It boots 10.6.1 in about 45 seconds.
Boots to the point where you can see the desktop, or boots to where you can actually interact with the desktop? There is a big difference.
If its the latter, what does your rig look like?? Thats great startup time.
The latter. From power up, to usable. It's really nothing special. It's a cheap build actually, a Pentium Dual Core (E6300) with 2GB DDR2-800.
Color me impressed, thats not my experience with 7 so far on several machines. Maybe it has something to do with all of them being laptops, I take it if you built yours its a desktop?
Color me impressed, thats not my experience with 7 so far on several machines. Maybe it has something to do with all of them being laptops, I take it if you built yours its a desktop?
Yeah it's a desktop. Hmm I wonder why. It shouldn't take longer on a laptop either. Even my oldest P4 build doesn't last more than 40 seconds booting.
I'm probably giving off the impression that im waiting forever. 40-60 seconds is the normal booting time I've run across on the machines I've installed W7 64 bit on.
I suggest we make a deal with Mattie Num Nums.
Come back to this topic in a month or two, and tell us how is Windows 7 performing.
You kinda missed the two posts above you buddy
.Also, I gotta give it to apple, that add was hilarious.
You kinda missed the two posts above you buddy
Also, I gotta give it to apple, that add was hilarious.
It certainly did its job. It made the Windows die hards angry, the mac die hards laugh, and those soured by a bad windows experience take notice.
TBH I still don't know what magical version of Windows 7 people were using. I tried it on one of the spares at work and I didn't get some huge epiphany.
I jumped on the bandwagon after the Beta came out. It was getting ridiculously good reviews even back then. I had to try it out just to see it for myself. I was extremely skeptical.
Vista got me hooked with Windows Media Center. After using the 7 Beta and RC for months I just couldn't go back to Vista.
7 works great on my Macbook, AMD HTPC, and my main Core i5 desktop.
I've been using 7 since the RC was released. I too have been epiphany-free. It's better than XP, sure (and I never used Vista), but I don't see what all the hype is about. Perhaps the Redmond RDF has no effect on me?
I used the Beta, RC, and finally have the RTM of Windows 7. Absolutely no problems with anything, not even drivers with regards to the pre-RTM versions. The ONLY program that stopped working for me (well, partially) was the live streaming functionality of Camtasia Studio 5. I found a replacement and was good to go.
I dunno, it's just a good OS overall.
I dunno, it's just a good OS overall.
Be careful, there are some on these boards who claim that anyone who says anything nice about Microsoft is a paid astroturfer.
Paranoia takes many forms - and we see most of them here
....Me too, except for a driver issue with a Quadro FX that was fixed by actually installing the Windows Server 2008 driver. Other than that, fine. I wouldn't call it an epiphany, but it's nicer than XP, and way faster than Vista, which is a pig.
My laptop goes from the loading graphic to a usable desktop in around 30 seconds. Hmm.
In any case it isn't a long time at all