Jason: > I wonder if I should shift to Mac OS or Ubuntu. > Any comp expert here who could give me some > ideas? > Well, I can't imagine what you're doing with your computer. I've been using Win 7 pretty much right out of the box for three years and never had much of a problem.
In fact, if you've been using computers since the days of DOS 5 and hardware incompatibility, Win 7 Pro 62 bit with plug and play, is the best OS for the average nerd. I'm running Microsoft Office Pro and several Adobe programs like PhotoShop, Premier, and Dreamweaver. And, the unit I just built is fast enough to run AutoCad and LightWave if I wanted to. You can't do that with Linux, there's no software that's any good. Go figure. If you're having problems keying in plain text to Notepad, then you've got a problem! Go for more DRAM and get EditPad! For internet, get a broadband connection with at least 14 mbps. You can test this using a free program called 'Internet Speed Test'. LoL! Your computer is going to browse only as fast as your internet connection anyway. In computer science, a virtual folder is dynamic, a 'view' that is brought up by tags, just like a saved query or a saved search. Don't forget you can find files in Win 7 using the search window in the top right of My Computer. P.S. Back up your computer with a BluRay external drive with USB-3 and ImgBurn free software. (You may have to update the Win 7 drivers for this, but from what I've read, Win 8 supports USB-3.) "I ran one experiment to confirm that USB 3.0 really is about 2.5x faster (as some web sites claim) to burn Blu-ray Discs (BD-R) than USB 2.0 (ie. the USB channel is the bottleneck..." - posted by testmaster Amazon review: http://tinyurl.com/mznh53o
