Anyone editing on Windows 7?

[Pwolf]

Considering i haven't used vista for more then an hour or so in any one sitting, i don't know how much I can compare either. but i can say, the last few months of using windows 7 have been a lot better then the short amount of time I've used vista. it's stable, fast and far less annoying. I've been using the 64bit version and it's stable as can be. haven't had a single issue.

UAC can be turned off - that doesn't bother me so much as actual improvements to internal things like load times and the like.

I could never find where to turn off UAC in vista...

[Zarxrax]

I'm running 7 on my netbook, and it's quite fast, even without a lot of tweaking. I was previously running a heavily stripped down XP, and 7 is *almost* as fast and snappy as that was. Keep in mind this is a system with a processor roughly equivalent to what i was running in my desktop 10 years ago, with 1gb ram.

[Pwolf]

I'm running 7 on my netbook, and it's quite fast, even without a lot of tweaking. I was previously running a heavily stripped down XP, and 7 is *almost* as fast and snappy as that was. Keep in mind this is a system with a processor roughly equivalent to what i was running in my desktop 10 years ago, with 1gb ram.

Aye, forgot to mention that we are running windows 7 on a business netbook here at work. runs great.


Pwolf

[BasharOfTheAges]

I should probably specify relevant system specs then - Core 2 Duo 6400 (2.13GHz) with 5GB (soon to be 8GB) of RAM (DDR2 800). [also an NVIDIA graphics card that was the last model before they started using CUDA stuff - I hate this]

I guess what i'm getting at is "are the differences only visible in a system that barely meets the minimum requirements, or are there advantages for me too?"

[Zarxrax]

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.

[Pwolf]

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.

x2

[BasharOfTheAges]

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.

x2

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)

[godix]

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.

[BasharOfTheAges]

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.

[Kristyrat]

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.