[Gllug] Windows 7

[Christopher Hunter]

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 20:24 +0000, Martin A. Brooks wrote:

> If all that's true then either your hardware is screwed or you're doing 
> it wrong. I run Win7 32 bit and Win7 64 bit on my netbook and gaming 
> machine respectively.  The netbook install has been flawless, the games 
> rig bluescreens one every couple of weeks due to a known problem with 
> Creative's driver. 

A SINGLE blue screen is too many!  

>  Both boot significantly faster than XP, I get _much_ 
> better battery life out of the netbook with Win7.

Good for you.  The boot time on the machines I've tried (and it's now
been quite a wide variety) start pretty good, but as soon as you begin
to add software, and as soon as you try to connect to a network, things
start to get slower and slower.  You'll also find that the boot time
increases radically (and stays increased) after each blue screen.

> Also Microsoft's product activation line is an 0800 number (0800 018 8354).

Unfortunately, not for the ones I've seen.  The activation number I've
seen is a "national rate" one/

> I'm suspecting that you're doing it wrong, frankly.

Perhaps, but that suggests that Dell, HP, Compaq, Lenovo and Acer are
all "doing it wrong" too.

C.


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