Windows 7: But, aside from looks and new features, is it better?

Me neither, it is simply FUD, lies and bull****. Windows 7 is for a very large part Vista, there is really no doubt or discussion needed. So it isn't lightyears ahead of Vista, just about 2.5 years actually....

The question if Windows 7 is better then XP, well, shame on the OP for even asking the question, it is indeed lightyears ahead of XP, but so was Vista. It is a shame, that some people apparenlty had such a bad experience with it to continue uttering the FUD about Vista.

Mostly people that do that, have either ran Vista for a short while on crappy hardware, or haven't ran it at all.

My Vista X64 is rock solid on 4.5 year old hardware, my media Centre PC is a Dell Optiplex GX260, (from december 2002 !) and runs Vista X86 fine (the only upgrade I did was a cheap memory upgrade and a 30 euro videocard).

The subject of this thread should really be a comparison between Vista and Windows 7, as the reasons for upgrading from XP to Windows 7 are clear, even if it was just for security.

The OS is so much faster on my 5 year old machine than Vista. I was pleasantly surprised and have already placed 2 pre-orders for the release in October, one for my Dell XPS 600 and the wife's Alienware Laptop.

I can't wait to see how it runs on a more update-to-date PC.

Greg

lol I obviously have a truck load of RAM. I have 8 gigs of RAM. When i first started on Vista (x86) I had 1 GIG of ram. It ran perfectly fine - i ditched XP for it. At the time as well it was 2000x more secure than XP.

I'm absolutley sick to **** of these people saying "You must have all this ram..." It's £35 for 4 gigs of ram. How do you possibly have an excuse to not have a good amount of ram in your computer? You can't afford £35?!!? Anybody who works can afford £35. Most bums can afford £35.

+1.

Same for me. I have 2gb cheap Ram 667mhz.

Vista x64 runs superbly. I see no difference in speed or performance between Vista and 7 on my machine.

Same here, my Vista X64 is also rock solid and fast, I couldn't be happier and I haven't even upgraded to SP2 yet, I'm still on SP1, not to mention that I would never go back to 32 bit, I sense in each and every way that 64 bit simply leads to more reliability under heavy use.

I've tried Windows 7 and didn't much see the "huge" performance increase that is often claimed, also more recent tests done on several sites confirm my initial thoughts.

It doesn't mean that I won't switch to Windows 7, which I will certainly do once it has SP1, all I'm saying is that the claim that Windows 7 is light-years ahead of Vista is extremely exaggerated.

Exactly, that annoys me too.. .all that rediculous whining about issues that one shouldn't have a reason to whine about...sigh

And that's even expensive, I paid 30% less for 4GB Kingston ram and that was 3 months ago.