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Mr. Luddite

On 4/2/2014 10:49 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 02 Apr 2014 06:57:49 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

Hmmmm. Just about everyone I know who uses Win 7 says it is a
significant improvement over "Vista."

Vista sucked, I think that was a pretty well known thing. It was so
bad that Microsoft offered an "upgrade to a more familiar interface"
AKA rolling back to XP for anyone who bought it.

Don't you think that many complaints about Vista and Win7 arise from
users with inadequate CPU speed and/or RAM? I think it also depends on
what version of each OS is being used and on what it is installed.

For example, the computer I am using right now is an older HP Pavilion
Notebook running Windows Vista Home Premium. It has an AMD Turion X2
Dual Core processor running at 2.10GHz. It has 4Gb of RAM and is a
64-bit system.

Other than having a slow boot-up cycle from cold, it has performed
perfectly since I bought it in 2009. Never had a crash. Never "bogged"
down. Seems just as fast as the Win7 machine or even the iMac for
browsing, watching videos or doing any of the music editing and movie
making that I did in support of the guitar shop performance venue.

The Windows 7 laptop is also a HP Pavilion, similar in terms of speed
and also has 4Gb of RAM. It has an Intel processor (forget which) and
is also a 64 bit machine. The big advantage of it over the Vista (for
me) is that it can view and process MP4 videos directly. XP and Vista
cannot deal with MP4. You have to convert them. Other than that,
there's not a big difference between it and the Vista. Both seem just
as fast and neither have ever "crashed".

The iMac is a bit faster in terms of processing audio recordings that I
do but it's not *that* much faster to make it a major selling point. It
also has twice the RAM (8Gb) than the Windows machines which probably
accounts for it's slightly faster speed.

Anyway, I guess my point is that I think it depends on what kind of
computer you are using and what kind of applications you use often.

For e-mail, word processing and other non-demanding applications just
about any computer and OS will do the job.