DISQUS

barrkel · 2 months ago

Windows XP is also very stable - I generally only reboot for Update Tuesday, and it never crashes.

Recently I even had an overheating graphics card, which was causing games to stutter and eventually crash, but the machine was still responsive, logging in with ssh when necessary.

Windows 7 x64, which I've got on the new machine I've just built, is quite a change from XP. The fact that it's a change means it starts out at -100 - change, on its own, is not good. My scanner doesn't work. I'm still waiting for the IT helpdesk to find a VPN client. I know from various game review sites that classic games like Thief don't run on it. This hassle adds up to maybe -200.

On the positive front, it's got a whiz-bang new interface, worth maybe 30. It's a properly supported x64 OS, so I can use my 12GB, that gives it a good 60.

It's got more support future ahead of it, and that's probably the real win - if I could have a 64-bit XP that worked transparently (not all this magic System32 directory, hidden Sysnative alias, magic ProgramData / My /Documents / etc. redirections), and didn't break any apps or hardware, I'd choose it in a heartbeat over Win7. But I can't, because MS must justify the price they charge for the OS, and compete with Apple for the people who like shiny fascist things.

sushantanand · 2 months ago

@scobleizer: who is your boss?

Alexandre Hugo · 2 months ago

Thanks Robert, I want one now :-/

AdamPieniazek · 2 months ago

Better than reams of paper, old college textbooks. Sturdier and no longer necessary (never know when you'll run out of paper and boom, there goes your monitor stand).

niels · 2 months ago

Show us your desk and post some pics! :-)

Tomáš Bleša · 1 month ago

"Win7 runs faster and hasn’t crashed in two days... Congrats to Microsoft." Two days? WOW! Can't believe it.

YOUDONTWANTTOKNOW · 1 month ago

I have a vista on my comp for over 2 years and crashed once. That was because of a bad driver. You sir are a liar.

Sid · 1 month ago

I think it's funny how we congratulate Microsoft on how little Windows 7 crashes compared to Vista/XP.

raysasso · 1 month ago

I've run Windows XP on over a dozen desktops since 2001, and am currently running it on 3 machines.

It's rock-solid stable. None of my machines have crashed in years. I only reboot monthly for Windows Updates. All of my software runs very well on these machines, and since they are built from the ground-up from the Microsoft CD's, there's no vendor crapware to slow things down.

There's no reason for me to move to 7 that I can see, and no one who's written about their 7 experience in the blogosphere has put forward any useful reason.

I've been using a Mac since my 128K in 1984, starting with System 1 and upgrading all the way thru Mac OS 9, and then OS X since 2001 and the Intel Mac's since 2006. Each version of the operating system has come out with features that I use, and are worth using--including Snow Leopard--which I upgraded on both my traveling MacBook Pro and my everyday desktop Mac Pro in early September.

Michael · 1 month ago

May I ask how did you manage to let iMac automatically import all your items from your macbook wirelessly? with Migration Assistant via Time Machine?