Windows 7 User Submissions

Who Say's You Can't Go Home?

by Bobby Ketcham
(Warrensburg Mo, USA)

I'm using Windows 7 RC1 X64 and there's no way I'll EVER go back out in the cold.

This is what Home should FEEL LIKE! The operating system is fantastic, drivers are way more than mature enough, I haven't found a single glitch/bug as of this writing and that's saying sumpin Elmer Fudd!!

I have installed this O/S on both my main p/c and a dell latitude D630 C2D 2.2 with 2gigs of ram and there's been 0 driver issues.

My main rig is a quad-core AMD Phenom II 920, 4g Kingston HyperX 1066 DDR2 ram, raid 0, 250x2 Maxtor HDD's, pc power and cooling 750W PS, Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-D4SH Mobo, Diamond 7.1 Digital Sound card using 3rd party 64 bit driver, all packed into a Antec 900 black case.

This O/S has been running on my main pc as the ONLY O/S ever installed and it flat out smokes, I have the cpu cranked up to 3.5GHz using a Zalman 9000 Copper Cooler with zero (0) issues on AIR and loving it.

The O/S was a slow install on my main PC but once installed, no hiccups or hangs or anything else PERIOD.

Everything works fine, all my security software runs as advertised even on a 64 bit O/S and I love the "old school" windows virtual XP mode. It comes with it's own 125 GB VHD.

From an old-timer, IT guy/FT STUDENT/ PC System Builder's perspective, what in the he-double-hockey-sticks IS there to DISLIKE??
The TCP stack is so responsive and accurate, the hooks for programming are actually functional and respond with the correct responses, security is so streamlined and the O/S is fantastically ergonomic and intuitive.

I refuse to ever leave HOME! NO LOOKING acrossed the Fence, this IS THE GREENER SIDE!