| SvennoJ said: Might be better compared to vista (never used it) but I still prefer xp over win 7. xp boots faster and 'only' uses 300mb of memory, win 7 uses 1 gb of memory before you start anything. Win 7 file sharing is still a pain in the ass. Why is it setting permissions for every single file separately, it takes 5 minutes to share/unshare my media directory. Sharing my 1tb usb drive through the router as a network drive would not work at all, just a mess of login permissions. I can see the drive, login on the drive, but no permission to access anything on it, ugh why. Other then that the performance is fine. But to be expected running on a desktop with a 2.8 ghz i7 and 8gb ram. It would not have a chance in hell running on my laptop with 1.6ghz pentium and 1gb ram. My xp laptop boots faster then my wife's 2.3ghz i3 laptop with 4gb ram and win7, that's progress :) |
Well, there's an issue with your setup then. I had an old machine that I installed windows 7 on and gave away.. I believe it was an Athlon 3000 (those were what, 1.8ghz?) w/1gb of ram - And it worked great. Booted fast. Gave the machine new life. New owner only needed it to watch netflix and play simple games like bejeweled, but win Win7 is flies. If your 2.3ghz laptop with 4gb of ram has any hiccups at all with Win7, you need to remove some stuff from startup.
