Interesting. I have to say that the desktop/window manager/taskbar changes (I'd call them improvements but not everyone would agree...) were compelling for me.
At first I missed "Quick Launch", until I learned about "Pinning" both to the bar itself and to the start menu and realised that Quick Launch was quite simply redundant. Similarly I initially missed the Programs "menu", until I learned that typing into the "Run" box was typically quicker anyway (Ctrl-Esc: "Word" [CR] and boof! There's MS Word). Similarly the amount of "noise" you can remove from the notification area (without losing essential feedback). Having the Windows 7 "shell" on my home PC for only a short time, when I went back to Vista on my laptop I found myself pining for the Windows 7 bar. So Windows 7 went on the laptop too (I dunno if that was an "OEM Windows" per se, but it was pre-installed on a brand new - 3 mths ago - Acer machine. Everything installed and worked without a hitch). -----Original Message----- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Jeremy North Sent: Friday, 7 August 2009 12:25 To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] to Vista 64bit or not? I've been using Windows 7 RC1 for a while doing quite a bit of testing on it. This is just a spare machine I picked up for $100. A pentium 4 2GHz with 768 meg of ram. It runs really well on that hardware. I must admit, I'm not a new fan of the task bar but most things are quite similar visually. I prefer vista, but the performance improvements that Win7 has almost make it impossible to ignore (if you are currently running vista). Delphi runs quite well on it as well. Although I haven't tried Delphi 7 (yuck :p) cheers, Jeremy On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:14 AM, John Bird<johnkb...@paradise.net.nz> wrote: > Any comments from those with Windows 7 whether its worth thinking of > upgrading a Sony Vaio with Vista (32 bit Home premium) to Windows 7 ?? > > I am encouraged by the closeness of Vista and Windows 7 - ie same drivers, > and internally Winodws 7 is actually V6.1 (compared to Vista V6.0). And the > comments on being nice to use. > > I am discouraged by the fact being Sony its a OEM Vista and in the past > whenever I have wanted to upgrade an OEM Windows the manufacturer has said > basically "You can't"/"not supported"/violate warranty"/long list of drivers > to upgrade meant to discourage you from trying. > > I presume its possible to do an in-place upgrade - ie leaving everything > installed there. Don't really need a dual boot - if it doesn't work fine I > would just go back to Vista - (would restore from a Hard disk image). I > would like to keep Window Mail if an upgrade doesn't remove it - I hear its > not part of Windows 7? > > I went from 2GB to 4GB RAM, and for Vista and particlarly D2007 it made a > big difference - lots of parts of the IDE would previously take ages to > load, eg refactoring. Now all is pretty smooth running. Vista uses up to > about 3.2GB RAM and the rest does get used for caching as far as I > understand. Sysinternals reports Windows using about 2.5 to a bit over 3GB > memory with usual workloads - D2007, lots of Firefox tabs. > > Personally quite happy with Vista, overall better than XP, some annoying > areas are mainly failure to resume sometimes, long delays after login and > resume before the PC is ready to accept input (well over a minute). Some of > that is due to firewalls and AV updaters grabbing the PC and not letting it > go until done, but some of it is Vista I think. > > Note don't upgrade for huge speed improvements - From benchmarks I have seen > there was little difference between XP Vista and Windows 7 - some show 7 is > a little slower than Vista, some a little faster > > http://gizmodo.com/5233098/windows-7-release-candidate-1-vs-vista-first-benc hmarks > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=5101&page=2 > > > John > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe > _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
