Solve : Should I upgrade to Windows 7??

1.	Solve : Should I upgrade to Windows 7??
Answer» My current desktop is a Dell Vostro 200 running Windows Vista Home Basic SP2 32-bit, with an Intel Pentium Dual CPU E2160 1.80GHz, 2.99GB RAM, and a Intel G33/G31 Express Chipset Family GRAPHICS card. Should I UPGRADE to Windows 7? I ran the upgrade advisor, and it said I was good to go, but I still wanted to know if it's a good idea to go up to Windows 7, or stick with Vista, based on my computer's specifications. Personal choice... Hard to say.Vista and 7 have pretty much the same system requirements, so your hardware won't make a difference. Windows 7 does run a bit faster especially on older hardware but yours is not old at all. Basically you have to decide whether or not it is worth it to pay to get 7 or not. Seven is only an improved Vista. That said, if you happy with Vista I would not recommend upgrading to 7, all you would gain is a new taskbar and a bit faster system. Quote from: Cityscape on May 04, 2010, 11:55:08 PM all you would gain is a new taskbar and a bit faster system. And jumplists, and a better windows search, better touch, speech, and handwriting recognition, built in support for Virtual Hard disks (which is useful if you use XP Mode), faster BOOT time, better performance in multi-core processors, kernel improvements, improved support for themes, "library" Virtual folders, progress bars and overlay icons on application buttons on the taskbar (something that I found rather interesting), storage space bars that are only shown for hard disks in Vista are now shown for removable drives as well,redesigned notification area, Aero Peek, Snap, and Shake, new Windows key shortcuts for the new window management functions, MUCH improved font management, faster Desktop Window Manager, support for 30-bit and 48-bit colour depths, DPI settings are per-user rather then per-machine, better superfetch and readyboost, increased performance with SSDs, built in support for biometrics (no more crappy manufacturer applets for those), improved applets, ISO burning built into the OS, Applications crashing twice causes 7 to automatically try to apply a shim, and if that fails it automatically asks questions about the programs desired environment, ability to use windows search to search for text in TIFF files (for scanned documents) Windows XP Mode, and so on. Aside from that though, there really is no good reason. I have used desktop Windows of each version since Windows 3.1 came out in 1992 and I think Windows 7 is the best yet. It is much more than Vista with the bugs taken out. Quote from: Salmon Trout on May 05, 2010, 12:42:36 PM Vista with the bugs taken out. That is pretty much what it is. I was a better tester and I like a few of the new features but a lot of the stuff BC mention may not be needed or wanted by the average Joe. I would say it's an improved Vista with bugs removed a some new features added. PS: I loved the rotating Desktop wallpaper! Quote from: Cityscape on May 05, 2010, 01:37:14 PM That is pretty much what it is. I was a better tester and I like a few of the new features but a lot of the stuff BC mention may not be needed or wanted by the average Joe. I would say it's an improved Vista with bugs removed a some new features added. PS: I loved the rotating Desktop wallpaper! Yet you don't remember how to spell "beta"? The Windows 7 kernel has undergone significant changes, including major scalability improvements; the user interface has been revamped and the initial desktop experience is completely different; the fundamental Windows applications have a different look and feel. Windows 7 is another version further on from Vista. Quote from: Salmon Trout on May 05, 2010, 01:48:01 PM Yet you don't remember how to spell "beta"? The Windows 7 kernel has undergone significant changes, including major scalability improvements; the user interface has been revamped and the initial desktop experience is completely difference; the fundamental Windows applications have a different look and feel. Windows 7 is another version further on from Vista. Wow, major typo. I can't believe I did that. The kernel difference is only .1, Vista is 6.0 and Seven is 6.1. Fair enough though. I do agree that Win7 is like no other Windows operating system, and I've used everything since 3.1. The user interface has had HUGE improvements. Still I don't think its worth (to me) $100+ upgrade. Quote from: Cityscape on May 05, 2010, 02:10:01 PM The kernel difference is only .1, Vista is 6.0 and Seven is 6.1. what are you talking about? that's the windows version number. has very little to do with kernel changes. Windows 3.1 had a good portion of it's kernel and user mode code rewritten to take advantage of the fact that Real mode was no LONGER supported, compared to 3.0. But it still was just windows 3.1, not windows 4. Additionally, MS released a Kernel update package for Windows 95 that introduced changes to much of the kernel- and it didn't change the version number at all. What about windows updates? they change portions of built-in drivers and kernel code sometimes. should updates change the version number of the system?

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My current desktop is a Dell Vostro 200 running Windows Vista Home Basic SP2 32-bit, with an Intel Pentium Dual CPU E2160 1.80GHz, 2.99GB RAM, and a Intel G33/G31 Express Chipset Family GRAPHICS card.

Should I UPGRADE to Windows 7? I ran the upgrade advisor, and it said I was good to go, but I still wanted to know if it's a good idea to go up to Windows 7, or stick with Vista, based on my computer's specifications. Personal choice...
Hard to say.Vista and 7 have pretty much the same system requirements, so your hardware won't make a difference. Windows 7 does run a bit faster especially on older hardware but yours is not old at all. Basically you have to decide whether or not it is worth it to pay to get 7 or not. Seven is only an improved Vista. That said, if you happy with Vista I would not recommend upgrading to 7, all you would gain is a new taskbar and a bit faster system. Quote from: Cityscape on May 04, 2010, 11:55:08 PM

all you would gain is a new taskbar and a bit faster system.

And jumplists, and a better windows search, better touch, speech, and handwriting recognition, built in support for Virtual Hard disks (which is useful if you use XP Mode), faster BOOT time, better performance in multi-core processors, kernel improvements, improved support for themes, "library" Virtual folders, progress bars and overlay icons on application buttons on the taskbar (something that I found rather interesting), storage space bars that are only shown for hard disks in Vista are now shown for removable drives as well,redesigned notification area, Aero Peek, Snap, and Shake, new Windows key shortcuts for the new window management functions, MUCH improved font management, faster Desktop Window Manager, support for 30-bit and 48-bit colour depths, DPI settings are per-user rather then per-machine, better superfetch and readyboost, increased performance with SSDs, built in support for biometrics (no more crappy manufacturer applets for those), improved applets, ISO burning built into the OS, Applications crashing twice causes 7 to automatically try to apply a shim, and if that fails it automatically asks questions about the programs desired environment, ability to use windows search to search for text in TIFF files (for scanned documents) Windows XP Mode, and so on.

Aside from that though, there really is no good reason.

I have used desktop Windows of each version since Windows 3.1 came out in 1992 and I think Windows 7 is the best yet. It is much more than Vista with the bugs taken out.

Quote from: Salmon Trout on May 05, 2010, 12:42:36 PM

Vista with the bugs taken out.

That is pretty much what it is. I was a better tester and I like a few of the new features but a lot of the stuff BC mention may not be needed or wanted by the average Joe. I would say it's an improved Vista with bugs removed a some new features added.

PS: I loved the rotating Desktop wallpaper! Quote from: Cityscape on May 05, 2010, 01:37:14 PM

That is pretty much what it is. I was a better tester and I like a few of the new features but a lot of the stuff BC mention may not be needed or wanted by the average Joe. I would say it's an improved Vista with bugs removed a some new features added.

PS: I loved the rotating Desktop wallpaper!

Yet you don't remember how to spell "beta"? The Windows 7 kernel has undergone significant changes, including major scalability improvements; the user interface has been revamped and the initial desktop experience is completely different; the fundamental Windows applications have a different look and feel. Windows 7 is another version further on from Vista.

Quote from: Salmon Trout on May 05, 2010, 01:48:01 PM

Yet you don't remember how to spell "beta"? The Windows 7 kernel has undergone significant changes, including major scalability improvements; the user interface has been revamped and the initial desktop experience is completely difference; the fundamental Windows applications have a different look and feel. Windows 7 is another version further on from Vista.

Wow, major typo. I can't believe I did that.

The kernel difference is only .1, Vista is 6.0 and Seven is 6.1. Fair enough though. I do agree that Win7 is like no other Windows operating system, and I've used everything since 3.1. The user interface has had HUGE improvements. Still I don't think its worth (to me) $100+ upgrade. Quote from: Cityscape on May 05, 2010, 02:10:01 PM

The kernel difference is only .1, Vista is 6.0 and Seven is 6.1.

what are you talking about? that's the windows version number. has very little to do with kernel changes.

Windows 3.1 had a good portion of it's kernel and user mode code rewritten to take advantage of the fact that Real mode was no LONGER supported, compared to 3.0. But it still was just windows 3.1, not windows 4.

Additionally, MS released a Kernel update package for Windows 95 that introduced changes to much of the kernel- and it didn't change the version number at all.

What about windows updates? they change portions of built-in drivers and kernel code sometimes. should updates change the version number of the system?

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