I’m running Windows 7 beta
Jan 7th, 2009 by fairx
Yesterday, out of curiosity.. & 2 days of usenet account trial, I decided to take the new leaked Windows 7 beta to a test. It’s beta yes.. and since I found out last year that Vista is soooo bloated to run on my mid dual core machine, the news & claims about the lightness of Win7 gave me a push.
And it didn’t disapoint me. Windows 7 is running right now as I’m writing this, here in my machine with aero theme turned on as default. My rig, a low end dual core Intel 2.0 and 1.5 gig ram minus 256 of ram deals with this new version of windows like a horse on steroid.. Well I might’ve exaggerate a lil bit but Win7 is my new toy at the moment.
As of beta, it has a few hiccups here and there, at first.. and I did crash it with video directshow with nvidia xp drivers. It also failed to respond to end an unresponsive task (Utorrent 1.9 beta, well.. beta meets beta) but what the heck? It’s faster than Vista and almost as fast as xp.
It did surprisingly run most of my software including the aging but fabulos Abilon rss reader. Most of the time, the compatibility mode save the situation. I was under the impression that Vista are bloated cause it’s trying to save compatibility with older programs. Some of the my common programs that runs well are;
1. Maxthon 1.6.3 ( my fav Maxthon version)
2. Illustrator 9 (Aero revert to basic theme but I can live with that)
3. XaraX 4 (I can’t live without this powerfull vector app)
4. The Font Thing 0.80 (Very old app, back to 1999 – still kicking)
