Is it worth it to upgrade to Windows 7 from Vista with new hardware?

arkhi said:

rasmasyean said:

I found this article that does some benchmarks.
It looks like they are pretty much the same but with Vista perfroming at the CPU minisculely better, and the Win7 performing at the VGA minisculely better.

It doesn't look like there's a reason for the 5.9 vs 7.9 difference. I did some research and those are the upper limits of the Windows Experience Index rating. It's prolly just some Microsoft marketing thing where they add in 2 points or whatever for "subjective user experience" with the new product. I bet Windows 8 cap will be like 9.9 or something...then 11.9...or they will come out with a completely difference useless rating.

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/28...son/index.html

Not really. See, when Vista came out, the fastest were dual-cores. They scored 5.9. It's unfair to rate today's Quad or 6-core with 5.9 still, hence the addition of 2 points. They planned to just scale it back, but that would just cause too much confusion.

I think that odd number rating scale has some future thought in mind in the lines of...

Hey, welcome to Best Buy. Check out this newer model where the WEI is 6.5! All the older models have a WEI of 5.9 max so buy this new one with the new OS! lol

I mean, if it was a "real" rating, it would have some sort of absolute number...or if 1-10, it would exponetial limit never reaching 10 and a 9.95 or something would be a "decent system" today.

At this point it might be beter to wait for the Windows 8 beta to come out mostlikey this fall and use that then going out and buying a new copy of windows 7. I know it's a bit early to think this way but its just a suggestion.

Personally, I didn't experience any problems with Vista other than some install bug with my motherboard if I remeber correctly. But other than that, it worked great for 3.5 years since I got it. I got a system that was able to run it and didn't try to install it on an old computer or "Budget Vista Capable" computer.

I think that's a major part of the reason Vista got a bad rap. Timing sugests that ppl were cheaper during the "Great Recession" and there was a big market for going budget and manufacturers as well as Bill Gates fooled every other user to thinking they should have the latest OS with a cheap computer. Then the rest is just hearsay from ppl who never used Vista. Heck, the US Army used it so it can't be that "unstable".

The way I see it, Windows 7 is just multi-touch Vista with some tweaks in UI and is feature scalable to netbooks. Unless you're like really hardcore/rich and want to spend a lot of money on SSD's for your desktop, it doesn't look to me that Windows 7 is a real "upgrade" from Vista. And personally I'm not an OS mogul and don't use Windows XP emulator programs either so.

I honestly believe Vista got such a bad press because of UAC, which in essence was not Microsoft's fault, but that of software developers who either couldn't or didn't update their applications to take UAC into account.

There was also an awful lot of software about written for earlier operating systems that users, rightly in my opinion, didn't want to dispense with or upgrade.