Comments on: Windows 7 Reality Check: It Can Still Suck Big Time

By: YolandaJR

YolandaJR — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:31:03 +0000

I have Dell 1525. I upgraded to Win7 beta from Vista HP — all good. Since it’s about to expire in 4 days, I planned to install the RC but having some serious issues. For some reason, it will not see the CD/DVD driver to get to the license screen. I’ve tried reinstalling the driver – nada…”no driver available..” As I write this, I decided to rollback to Vista (ugh) then try to install the RC. What do you think?

btw…since it’s still only in the expanding files phase, I’m sure I’ll hear something b4 it finishes…thx

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:16:27 +0000

Yeah sure, OSX simply works – except when it doesn’t.

I own a Mac, and enjoy using it – but when I first got it, it would freeze up due to graphics card issues. No-one at apple could/did help me – I just had to wait over 6 months for a graphics card update.

Not a good first impression, House Of Jobs.

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:08:01 +0000

Windows 7 RC is working great for me! Shame about your networking, have you checked out the online forums to see if anyone is experiencing similar issues?

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:40:40 +0000

As Microsoft becomes more and more desperate, it is making more and more mistakes.

I read an article describing how the Microsoft developers are under enormous pressure to deliver.

Not a good environment in which to write quality code.

Meanwhile the quality of Linux on the desktop continues to improve by the day.

By: Jo

Jo — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:35:40 +0000

See! See! I told you so! You should use OSX – It simply works! :)

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:15:09 +0000

I loaded Win7 on my Dell Latitude and it ran for a few minutes and then froze up. repeats this after every forced hard restart. It’s crap, yeah, it might be the hardware, but i’m no longer interested.

7? no thanks. back to xp, i went.

By: Mic Cullen

Mic Cullen — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:44:55 +0000

Im running W7 on the (quad-core, 4GB, 8800GT) desktop at home and here on the laptop (Dell XPS Studio 16, 8GB, SSD, RGBLED screen) and it’s terrific on both. Networking is seamless, and it’s a huge amount easier to hookup to the iPhone for use as a modem than my 5-month-old MBP was, weird as that sounds.

By: Louis Rodriguez

Louis Rodriguez — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:51:07 +0000

I’m quite surprised. As I sit here on my T61 with Vista, I can say there were only three things that didn’t work out of the box for me:
1. the Mute key. That’s actually worked itself out though.
2. The fingerprint reader. I had to download the Lenovo driver, and then cheerfully ignore the Lenovo software. Win7 works fine without it.
3. The display. This was a bit of a mess, but only because I made a big mistake. I installed the Nvidia driver before installing the INF for the LCD, leading to Windows booting up to a black screen because of an unsupported display geometry. Once I worked out what happened it was trivial to fix.

All in all, I have not complaints about Win7 on the T61 (nor on the T60 to my right).

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:48:08 +0000

Installed Windows 7 RC on a Dell Mini 9 and everything ran beautifully out of the box! No networking problems at all. A bit slow on the Mini but runs well compared to Vista in its early days. Vista was a “shocker” on my home network at first, but Windows 7 has been as smooth as silk!

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:27:16 +0000

An issue that Ubuntu would laugh about. Wireless networking in Jaunty is so seemless my grandma could probably figure it out. And she’s 95 this year.