I was growing more unhappy with Vista as time went on. I’m not sure why but to me it felt like a sloppy work flow and I wasn’t all pleased that I have to spend 2-4hours after a format of Vista disabling stuff.  But when I happen to get a few viruses (completely my fault) I knew I had to reformat my laptop. I happen to find out about RC release of Windows 7 decided I wanted to give it a shot.

It’s been 2 weeks since then and I’m impressed with Windows 7. First is that I don’t have to spend 2 hours disabling things with 7 I only need to spend 2 minutes. The task bar has been greatly improved with a very inspired Mac system to handle accessing programs. I haven’t tried to find everything I can with this OS but it’s the little things that matter to me with options of changing backgrounds(change the time to when you want the background to change! fancy.) to the blurring (Vista had but ate all resources to do it). The Aero theme is fantastic. Windows 7 seems to be able to handle everything I throw at it.

The problem is I bought a Alienware m15x laptop. It works great for everything almost. It has latency issues and when I first got it I had major problem with it on Vista which happen to be BIOs driver issue. But since Windows 7 is still in development I’m getting latency spikes. Which I can’t have. For example tonight I finally felt the need to work on some music but I was getting some terrible cracking noise and stuttering. I can’t work with that really makes you loose focus.

I really think this issue is only effecting Alienware users and most other computers shouldn’t have a issue. I have Windows 7 on another laptop and desktop computer and seem to be running better than my system. Reminds me that since Vista they introduced a rating system how well windows thinks your computer can handle things. Those other computers I have 7 on I can do that rating system no problem, on mine… Ha. It hangs on video and can’t complete it but oddly I have no issues with high graphical demanding games. Though I can’t update the video drivers with out my computer getting messy.

So theres a few bugs still to be worked out in Windows 7. But hey it is still in Beta or RC whatever it’s not finish is the point. And what I’ve seen so far without a doubt Windows 7 is the best OS I have ever used. I’m looking forward when they finish it.

SF