Windows 7 RC review

So, the Windows 7 RC has been out for a good day or so. For those that haven't made the switch but are nosy to, this review is for you.

Our personal experiences thus far have been almost all positive under the following system, running the x86 version:

MSI K9N6SGM-V DDR2 AM2 motherboard

OCZ Platinum XTC PC2-8500 2GB 2X1GB DDR2-1066 CL5-5-5-15 240PIN DIMM Dual Channel Memory Kit

MSI Radeon HD 4830 575MHZ 512MB 1.8GHZ GDDR3 2XDVI Cross FireX TV-OUT PCI-E Video Card (OC'd)

Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB 7200RPM 32MB Dual Proc 3.5IN SATA Hard Drive OEM 5YR Mfg Warranty

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+

The only real trouble appears to be a stuttering system noise which sometimes occurs when installing some plugin’s or applications, and this could be blamed on the fact we're running on a Vista driver.

In terms of hard numbers, Personnel Computers Games Hardware took the Operating System to the test against Vista and XP, each in varying setups. There are some application benchmarks, but the results are so negligible they're not really worth posting. The real meat is in the gaming benchmarks, which do show marked improvements with almost every test, particularly with DX 10:

They're still not sure if Windows 7 will phase out XP, but to us it's already making it feel horribly dated (in spite of our love for it). Assuming you have your data backed up, based on our experience up to this point, we can't recommend switching enough. Bring on the final release!

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Windows 7 Review

Windows 7 has released after three years of Vista. Vista and Windows 7 can be compared on many points and in all of them Windows 7 will win. If you take a Windows 7 review, then you will feel that it is better than any other Windows operating system. You are aware about the concept of boot time. It is the time taken by the system while booting. Windows 7 takes less time in booting as compared to Vista.

Windows 7 and Vista has same hardware requirements and hardware compatibility model. In Windows 7, user interface has been improved with usable features like Aero Peek, Aero Shake. While working on the Windows 7, you will feel uneasy because of the too many opened windows. Aero Peek feature gives you the facility to view the outline of every window, which is recently opened. You can view this outline by hovering over a show desktop field in the right of the task bar. Aero Shake feature lets you minimize all the windows except the one, on which you are working. To utilize this feature, you have to hover over one window and the other windows will be minimized.

Windows Media Centre in Windows 7 has been improved than it was in Vista. After knowing about all the features of it, it is certain that you will think of Windows 7 replacement with your current operating system. In Windows 7, a feature known as Windows Live Essentials is available, this feature is basically a bundle of applications. Now, you do not have to install each application separately, because of this feature all of the applications will be installed concurrently.

Windows 7 has improved searching mechanism. If you search for a file, then you will also get some of the information about the file. In this way, you can easily search for any of the file present on your system. Windows 7 minimum system requirements are as follows:

1 GHz processor for both of the 32-bit or 64-bit system. 1 GB of RAM for 32-bit and 2 GB of RAM for 64-bit processor. 16 GB of available free disk space for 32-bit and 20 GB of available disk space for 64-bit processor. DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver are all the basic Windows 7 requirements.