I started at 12 with computers.The first one was a Commodore 64.A impressive fast machine.:)After that a PC/Celeron with Win 98.Since 2001 i'm running XP and after a short excursion to Vista a few weeks ago i'm back to XP Professional incl. Service pack 3 for perhaps quite a while.:)
Vista is imho. a very safe OS,which prevents the unexperienced user of many mistakes and therefore virus infections.But it was sooo slow on my dual core 2.0Ghz.compared to XP,that i prefer to count on certain tools to keep the PC safe as to wait ages to get a DVD burned.
There is a light version of Win 7 available called "7 Lite" designed for notebooks and slower PC's i would put into consideration if there would be no XP Pro.
The instal. pack of Win7 itself have over 3 times the size of the XP Pro pack+sp3,that gives me doubts about the system speed too.I haven't tried Win7 yet,but would like to do it on a strange computer first before i would decide to install this elephant at my hard drive.:)
Even the best computers currently available(workstations with 192GB RAM upwards/30 core processors and so on)designed for software developers,architects etc.are preferably equiped with XP or Linux.Why that???
Why is on the fastest and best computers of users,who are oviously in the know what they are doing still XP the first choice?
Because Vista and 7 suck performance-wise, are overloaded and the advantages they bring are low compared to the disadvantages.
ReplyDeleteHave a look at Linux (e.g opensuse.org) which is even better then Xp SP3 :-)