Over the weekend I downloaded Windows 7 and ran it on my Macbook Pro (Latest mac released October 08) using VMware. So I ran it the first time using only 1 processor and 512mb of ram and I was impressed. The first thing I must say is that Internet Explorer 8 is fast. It loads up in no time at all. I was very impressed of the speed of the whole OS’s Speed especailly because I was using only 512mb of ram.

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So after testing the speed the next thing I did was look to see if all the features I’ve been reading about were there. The only thing that would work is the shake and clear windows. This is the feature where you shake a window you have open and all the other windows minimize. It will take some getting used to but it could become very useful. I also couldn’t get Aero to work properly and I believe it has something to do with me using VMware to run it virtually.

The Dock & System was my next favorite thing. Windows 7 is taking a huge step towards usability and speed. Although the dock looks very similar to the dock on Mac OS X Leopard it actually is quite useful. You could pin items to the dock and by right clicking you can see all windows open within that program. Which help save space and free up clutter.

The next thing I did was test out what Windows 7 would be like on two 2.4ghz processor and 2gigs of RAM and man is it fast. Although booting up was a bit slow(agian this is probably due to VMware starting up virtualization). This time I used Windows 7 Beta 1 I did run into a problem with connecting to a wifi network. It seems that they changed the way you connect to a wifi network from how it is on Vista and I still can’t figure it out.

Overall, I think Windows 7 is a dramatical increase from Windows Vista especalliy because of speed and usability.

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