Windows 7 beta as full time OS ????

[mingdizzle]

Originally Posted by R1C47

how much?

I don't remember reading anywhere about increased battery life with 7.

Quoted from Gizmodo:

"Vista's power management was definitely better than XP's, and Windows 7's is remarkably better still. Part of it is just that whole smarter background management, which for battery life does things like dial down the processor more often, use less juice to play a standard def DVD, automatically turn off your Ethernet adapter, common sense stuff like that. But it doesn't just do all this fancy energy-saving jujitsu behind your back (though it can). Windows 7 is capable of delivering a battery efficiency report that breaks down in detail what's chomping on your battery—power-slurping hardware, vampire-y processes, the works."

[dwolf123]

sorry I meant with a sucessful OS to replace vista

[Nihility]

Originally Posted by mingdizzle

Quoted from Gizmodo:

"Vista's power management was definitely better than XP's, and Windows 7's is remarkably better still. Part of it is just that whole smarter background management, which for battery life does things like dial down the processor more often, use less juice to play a standard def DVD, automatically turn off your Ethernet adapter, common sense stuff like that. But it doesn't just do all this fancy energy-saving jujitsu behind your back (though it can). Windows 7 is capable of delivering a battery efficiency report that breaks down in detail what's chomping on your battery—power-slurping hardware, vampire-y processes, the works."

Where can I find that report?

[mingdizzle]

Originally Posted by Nihility

Where can I find that report?

http://gizmodo.com/5070219/giz-expla...ll-smash-vista

[Nihility]

Sorry, I meant the battery efficiency report mentioned in the quote. I can't find it anywhere in Windows 7 or online. Any idea what the deal is (pics please)?

[kirilltch]

Windows 7 beta (7000 or higher) is actually quite good. To tell you the truth, i have been using it for almost a month and it runs a lot better than vista does. First it is a lot quicker, almost like running xp with the eyecandy of vista. Second, all the updates work, you can download all the normal updates that are there for vista. Third, all the drivers/programs work no prop, just make sure they run in vista, than they will run in 7.
I use windows 7 as a main operating system, and i use my laptop for my college in informatics, which means that i constantly install new complex tools needed for programming, and so far everything just works!
And as last, to my suprise, after installing vista for the for the first time i had a problem getting the passive digitizer to work, and after installing windows 7 i didn't even have to install anything, it found all the right drivers threw windows update and installed them, and the bloody thing just worked by itself.

ps.: you do need windows 7 build 7000 or higher of the beta, because all the other ones were corrupt/experimental. The 7000 build is most likly(in my opinion) a release candidate.

[alanjrobertson]

Just be careful if using WMP12 in W7 - some reports of MP3 corruption - http://forums.thoughtsmedia.com/f304...2-a-91989.html