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Mr. Luddite

On 4/2/2014 12:37 PM, wrote:

On Wed, 02 Apr 2014 11:30:43 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

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.

I have never heard of anyone loading Vista or W/7 on their existing
machine. It is generally a machine sold with that OS bundled in it. I
assume they would use an adequate machine.

True, but many "budget" machines are sold at places like Best Buy,
Walmart etc., that have the bare minimum requirements to run a specific
OS. Also, there are different versions of both Vista and Win 7.,
including 32 bit and 64 bit versions.

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.

VLC player (free) has no problems with MP4 files and it will run on
W/98 if you want. You must be talking about Media Player. The only
files I have associated with that is WMV. VLC plays damned near
anything.

I have used VLC on the Vista computer. It's fine. But I also made many
videos of performances at the shop using Windows "Movie Maker".
My HD camera stored files in mp4 format. The version of Movie Maker in
Visa couldn't read them, so I'd have to convert them. The version of
Movie Maker in Win7 accepts mp4 files and has many more editing features.

BTW, I found and use a really cool application called
"Screencast-O-Matic". You can record any video and audio playing on
your screen and store as mp4, avi, or flv files. Quality is equal to
the original.
The free version limits the length of any recording and puts a logo on
it. For $15 per year you can get unlimited recording time and no logo.
Works well and has some editing features as well.

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.

My point exactly. In fact, you have to work pretty hard to find
something that needs that blazing speed. Most of it is simply churning
hard to feed the bloated OS code.