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Re: Anyone editing on Windows 7?

Postby Pwolf » Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:31 pm

Zarxrax wrote:Changing your OS isn't going to magically make everything faster.
Windows 7 is a better all-around OS though, and so I would use it for that reason.


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Re: Anyone editing on Windows 7?

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:13 pm

Pwolf wrote:
Zarxrax wrote:Changing your OS isn't going to magically make everything faster.
Windows 7 is a better all-around OS though, and so I would use it for that reason.


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Conventional wisdom (and a degree in computer science) tells me that, assuming a bare minimum of competency in OS design, great improvements in speed and efficiency are not likely to happen but since it's what all the anecdotes I see on the internets are saying, i feel the need to ask the simple questions. I've never though of Microsoft as the most competent OS designer, however - it's possible they actually could have improved certain aspects that were poorly designed a while back that greatly improved performance. (I say it's not impossible having, myself, just discovered and fixed a bug in decade-old code that saved several million-dollar contracts)
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Re: Anyone editing on Windows 7?

Postby godix » Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:21 am

BasharOfTheAges wrote:Conventional wisdom (and a degree in computer science) tells me that, assuming a bare minimum of competency in OS design, great improvements in speed and efficiency are not likely to happen but since it's what all the anecdotes I see on the internets are saying, i feel the need to ask the simple questions. I've never though of Microsoft as the most competent OS designer, however - it's possible they actually could have improved certain aspects that were poorly designed a while back that greatly improved performance. (I say it's not impossible having, myself, just discovered and fixed a bug in decade-old code that saved several million-dollar contracts)


The major difference seem to be that the bloat is more manageable than previous windows versions. If you want you can have Aero, preview icons, and so on but it seems a lot easier to kill that stuff if you don't want it/have a computer that can't handle it. Tweaking Windows 7 to act like I want it to act took all of a day or so, and half of that was looking up things specific to Windows 7. Previous OS's I've had took far longer because there was always some stupid setting buried deep in a menu (or registry) that I had track down or windows randomly would just forget my settings. So it's not that Windows 7 is so much faster than Vista, but that Windows 7 can be stripped down easier. As an example, IE and Media Player actually don't feel like they're integrated into the OS at all while with XP sometimes it felt like IE *WAS* the OS. All of which help explain why you see reports of five year old machines running Win7 without a problem when those same machines would choke and die on Vista.

Which basically means the same thing others said, Windows 7 is just a better OS. Unless you're running a pretty old or underpowered computer it probably isn't a huge gain in speed though.
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Re: Anyone editing on Windows 7?

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:45 pm

Got the RTM running on 2 systems so far (technet subscriptions FTW) - It's utilizing my system resources in a much more efficient manner than i've seen XP, or even Vista SP2, do.

One odd thing though - the install disc kinda sits there and doesn't do anything for 5 minutes twice at the very beginning of the install without any sort of notification that it hasn't just hung.
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Re: Anyone editing on Windows 7?

Postby Kristyrat » Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:07 pm

I've been editing on 7 for a few months now and it's a dream. I wasn't all that pissed off about Vista, it took some getting used to for sure, but 7 is a huuuge step forward. It's namely in a lot of little things, but loading is definitely faster, and I haven't had any issues working with the typical editing suite we use.
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Re: Anyone editing on Windows 7?

Postby Garylisk » Sat Aug 29, 2009 7:24 pm

BasharOfTheAges wrote:One odd thing though - the install disc kinda sits there and doesn't do anything for 5 minutes twice at the very beginning of the install without any sort of notification that it hasn't just hung.


This happened to me as well when installing, and I am not sure why.

However, I will say this, I have now been running Win7 for a long enough period of time that I can safely say that it is a superior OS to previous Windows versions.

I still have not done any video editing on it, but if everything else it does is any indication, it should be wonderful.

A friend of mine has an uncle who works for MS, so I am definitely buying Win7 since I can get that sweet employee discount price. :)
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