Windows 7: My Experience
While my lust for a new 27inch iMac or 15inch Macbook Pro grows greater, i decided to upgrade the OS on my Toshiba P300-20H Media Laptop to finally break free from Vista, don’t get me wrong i loved Vista even though i am mainly a Mac Fan boy, it just worked, not as well as Snow Leopard obviously but i didn’t hate it like most others. Windows XP, although great, was just too boring for me, having a creative eye, i used to bore quickly looking at the plain Blue taskbar, But Vista was Modernised and had loads of stuff i liked.
But moving on, i ordered my student copy of Windows 7 Home Premium directly from Microsoft for a mere £30, yes more than Snow Leopard, but i was ok with it.
Before i started the Windows 7 installation i had a little clearout and deleted any old or unused files, then i ran CCleaner which gave me another 2GB space back, after all this i was left with 52GB left on my main partition and 108GB on my (D:) drive.
Installation of Windows took a ridiculous 2 hours, compared to Snow Leopards 45mins, i was still optimistic none-the-less as i was getting a new OS. The first boot took a little while as it set everything up properly but this is usual for OS installations, when i was finally on my Desktop i was welcomed with a burst of bright colours and the Windows logo.
Although its purely advertising i love the default Wallpaper that windows provide.
The upgrade had recovered an extra 7GB, brilliant but not essential as i store most things on external Hard Drives or my iMac.
The main change from previous Windows version is the most important part of the OS, the part we use everyday and think nothing of it, Yes the Taskbar. They’ve ditched the description of each window and now provide a larger logo of the program that is running, as well as this, now every window of a program is combined into the single Logo, this allows you to hover over each programs icon to show all the windows that are running inside it. When you hover over one of these windows that pop-up it quickly renders the window in front of the other windows, this is as close as Windows user get to Expose in Mac OS unfortunately.
Another of the main feature upgrades in 7 is the windows “Snap”, when you drag the top of a window to either the left, right or top of the screen it “snaps” to different sizes, if you drag it to the sides it resizes it to exactly half the screen size to that side, and if you drag it to the top of the screen it effectively resizes the window to fit the screen. I really love this addition and it is something i would love to see in a version of Mac OS in the near future as it’s something i really use a lot.
Well that’s about it for now and i’ll let you find what else you love in the new OS, but if i find something else i really love about it you can be sure i’ll write a post about it.
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