Windows 7 first thoughts & the upgrade process from Vista October 27, 2009
Posted by jphebert in General.Tags: microsoft, os, upgradem, vista, Windows, windows 7, windows vista
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I got my copy of Win 7 Home Premium for my wife’s laptop and installed it last night and already installed the RC on an old Sempron 3000 w/1Gb RAM & ATI 256Mb Radeon card.
Collection of thoughts on the two installs:
1- The Sempron box: old PC doing not too much but gathering dust at this point, so I wiped the HD clean of XP and installed the release candidate version (RC) about a month ago. Smooth install, and surprizingly fast operations for a “new” OS on an old clunker. Have not had the chance to mess with it since then but was impressed nonetheless. The ATI card made it so the UI with full-blown animations was working smoothly.
2- The HP Latptop: it’s a Core2Duo with 4GB RAM and 800Mhz FSB, decent hardware running Vista 64-bit and was slower than molasses due to Vista. So did the upgrade thing as I decided to be lazy about it (I usually install an OS from scratch but my wife wanted it back asap so what the heck!). The upgrade process went without a hitch but be advised it took hours. Just be patient. The laptop under Win7 runs smoothly and I have to say significantly faster without changing a damn thing to the apps & hardware.
Overall, Win7 is a really cool OS at first and will post notes as times flies by on how this is going.
Anybody else enjoying 7 and ditching Vista faster than the speed of light?
iPhone 3GS thoughts October 27, 2009
Posted by jphebert in technology.Tags: 3g, 3gs, android, blackberry, iphone, mobile, smartphone
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Am I ever glad I got this device! I can now check email, surf, play music, watch videos and the usual stuff expected, but what makes this a killer tool is the app store. Going back to a BlackBerry (since I’m not an email power typer) is not possible but I’d love to check out an Android phone once the OS hits 2.0. Enough money spent on gadgets like this for the time being!
