I’m pretty impressed with Windows 7 having skipped over Vista from XP.
Anyone know how to get ASIO4All working though?
Running 7\64 Ultimate on a Phenom II X3 with Echo MIA, for about a month now.
Renoise seems to be doing well.
Couple of VST’s that I use seem to work too.
Hmm…
I don’t want to praise too much because I still don’t see much reason to switch from Ubuntu (apart from modern games which aren’t to my liking anyway, and VST’s which are still an issue).
Besides, I’ve got a feeling that some 5 years from now nobody’s going to care that much about which system to install cause a lot of things are going to be web-based.
…and then 2 years after that someone will come up with a revolutionary concept called the “personal computer.”
How on earth can you find Vista slow with your computer specs???
Trust me, Vista even feels slow on a Supercomputer.
No it’s not. I’m using Vista everyday and it feels very fast. I have disabled all animations of windows etc though…
Take a look at these test results:
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/reviews/w…view?page=3%2C3
and
http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?..chmark-results/
If you compare Vista to Windows 7, the performance is more or less equal. If you take away the results that only give a highly marginal difference (0-2% in both ways), then Vista WINS over Windows 7 in these tests with 9-8.
Well, that’s quite the thing.
For as far as i had to work with it on consumers pc, it was sluggish as hell, indeed i turned off all the fancy stuff that made it behave sluggish and then yes, it was operatable without having to make coffee after every move you finished to initialize something on your pc.
Specially the network performance is crap (whether you optimized Vista for speed or not, this part is hard to optimize)… Number one reason to skip Vista.
Though Windows 7 also seems to load quite some resources. A lot more than XP for sure, yet it seems running quite comfortable.
I won’t make the switch yet though…
How long ago was this? Because Vista SP2 is a lot faster compared to when Vista was first released. I used a quite early version with less than 1GB of memory, and that was slow. After I bought more memory it got a lot faster. Once, I tested Vista SP1 against Ubuntu 8.04 on the same computer and Vista was faster on everything! (except for system startup).
I have not noticed that network performance should be crappy. I have a 100MBit internet connection and I tested it right now and got 95MBit…
A couple of shortcuts articles well worth reading if you are moving from XP (maybe some from vista too?)
Sorry… perhaps that has been fixed in sp2 as well, but network performance on local windows network using drive-mappings and printing etc. (not the internet).