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• Windows 7: I'm impressed

  Jere 9:54 pm on February 19, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: me (26), windows

  Jeremy Zawodny says Windows 7 is “snappy” on his T61 – but I wanted to go him one better.

  I’m writing this post on a painfully dated IBM T42 (right, that means a pre-Lenovo Thinpad, circa 2004) and Windows 7 actually outperforms Ubuntu 8.10.

  Repeat: Windows 7 is faster than Ubuntu 8.10 on 512MB of ram – that’s Vista – with Aero turned on – and it’s faster.

  (No, I don’t have any benchmarks on this, but seriously) The boot time is actually obnoxiously faster – but Jaunty should take care of that.

  Oddly (or appropriately?), I still tend to prefer a simple gnome desktop – Chrome on Windows 7 is tough to resist though.

   

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• Windows 7 Beta Tommorrow

  Jere 10:40 pm on January 8, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: me (26), windows

  From the Windows blog -

  On January 9th, the Windows 7 Beta will be available for Windows enthusiasts to download via the Windows 7 page on Windows.com. The Windows 7 Beta is going to be available download-only (we’re not sending out physical media) and available for a limited time to the first 2.5 million people who download the beta.

  First 2.5 million – and no actual time I can find yet – so keep an eye out and get a jump on it, I guess.

  I’m holding out some hope for this Windows – actually quite looking forward to trying it tomorrow.

   

• Windows Live Mail Desktop

  Jere 1:00 pm on May 6, 2006 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: me (26), windows

  I haven’t tried it yet – but wanted to post the link.

  Click here to download.

  - thanks to InsideGoogle.

   

• XP on an Intel Mac?

  Jere 2:42 am on April 9, 2006 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: apple, intel (2), me (26), windows

  Personally, I’d prefer the option to run OSX on my PC – but Boot Camp does make a pretty enticing offer. Check out CNet’s article on the viability of an Intel based Mac gaming platform.

  I’m probably one of the few people who actually use a PC at home and a Mac for work – but there are many times that I find myself wondering why I stick with Windows at all. The answer of course is software support – going well beyond just gaming – so the potential for a dual boot G5 (is it still a G5 with Intel inside?) with an Apple cinema display for gaming sounded almost too good to be true.

  …then I remembered the price tag.

   

• Windows Live - Beta

  Jere 9:57 am on April 6, 2006 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: me (26), windows

  Everyone who hasn’t checked this out, should.

  It’s “beta” in the conventional sense – not the Google sense where it’s kickass but will stay in beta for three years anyway – or the traditional microsoft sense where your mouse explodes or something.

  I signed up for the mail – but it looks like there’s at least a month wait – if they decide you’re eligible at all – on who knows what basis…