Well its been a week and I have updates.
I've been running 7 in VM's both at the office and at home. My office machine is a Pentium 2.8Ghz, 2GB RAM, Raedon X600 256MB. Unfortunately my main machine at home finally bit the dust after 4 years of faithful service.
So I decided to build a new machine and make the fulltime switch to a 64bit workstation. Newegg'd most of the parts. Built it the other night. Running Intel i7 920 2.66 (OC'd to 3.8Ghz), 6GB Corsair RAM, Nvidia 9800GTX 1GB. I did a fresh install of Windows 7 64bit and have decided to make it my primary OS for a while to see how it works.
For the most part my initial uses so far have been surfing, email, torrents and audio processing.
Pros:
- Beta is shockingly stable. I've only really had hiccups mostly in Media Center.
- Superbar has taken a bit of time to get used to since I use the Quick Launch in XP a ton but the Superbar is really nice and functional.
- Less bloat everywhere
- A much quicker OS. Even in a VM the OS cooks.
- Networking just keeps getting better and better and easier and easier from Microsoft OS's. Best implementation yet
- Full compatibility with the following audio apps:
- SoundForge 9.0e
- Izotope Ozone 3
- CDWav 1.9.7
- FLAC Frontend 1.7
- FLAC 1.2.1 <-- none of the previous Vista install problems
- TLH 2.4.1 Build 160
- Adobe Audition 3.1
- Adobe Soundbooth CS4
- Currently its free to try so if you run Vista you should try 7
- Every Vista driver i've thrown at it works great.and on the first install
Cons:
- Still a bit unpolished visually but its a beta so what do you expect
- Libraries - MS is revamping the My Documents sorting from XP. A little tough to get used to after using XP for so many years.
Other thoughts:
- If the beta is any indication this is an OS we can all move safely to. It just so quick and surprisingly very stable.
- Its been a bigger jump for me from XP to 7 getting over alot of the styling changes of some of my fav programs like Windows Explorer. Wish they'd have a Classic view for them.
- I have not had any devices that either 1. wasn't installed automatically by 7 or 2. Didn't have a Vista compatible drivers.
- Drivers have all been 64bit drivers for all hardware that I needed to find a driver for.
That's 7 in a nutshell for me. If any one has a questions or wants me to test a particular software package on 7 let me know.