Posted on 05/18/2010 8:15:58 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
I have it and as far as I’m concerned it is the best. The increase in speed alone was well worth the price.
Perhaps this might work better with my HP printer. Vista is the pits....
I just had to buy a new Dell, because my previous laptop was getting dangerously old and flakey.
So far, it is absolutely terrific. Windows 7, dual processor, x64, just a cut below the top of the line, and remarkably cheap.
I can’t understand why Win 7 hasn’t pushed up their stock price...
Windows 7 was reviewed months ago and that is already reflected in the stock price. Investors aleady expected Windows 7 to do well.
No surprises = no boost or fall.
I installed Win7 Home Premium 64 about two months ago. I agree, it has been the best version of Windows I’ve ever used.
Really? We have 7 on several of our computers & are desperate to be rid of it. It’s been worse than Vista.
Dh actually looked in to the possibility of going back to XP. 7 has been really unstable & corruption prone—much like Washington.
Buy from Dell like I do..they still offer XP, even for their new laptops which I bought from them 4 months ago.
That’s odd compared to my experience with it. Aside from problems with a program or two and one of our printers, Win 7 has been a vast improvement over XP. Do you know if he did a fresh install or an upgrade? Upgrades seldom work well. The new settings transfer makes a new install easier to get back to the old working condition.
Since that has NOT been the experience of the overwhelming majority of Windows 7 users, I strongly suspect your problems lie somewhere other than with the O/S.
Flakey drivers are probably the #1 cause of Windows instability. That would be my starting point, if I were in your shoes.
We did upgrades from Vista on all of them & really regret it now.
I’m glad to have my trusty mini with XP on it.
The only two crashes I have seen in Windows 7 came from a driver in Skype.
Upgrading from Vista might be the problem. Vista is likely the one thing that Microsoft would most like a do-over on.
I’ve run every version of MS Windows since Windows 3.1. Of all the versions, only XP (32 bit) and my present Win 7 (64 bit) have been reliable and stable. To master XP and get all the necessary drivers and settings took many months. With Win 7 the installation was a breeze and I’ve had no problems, even with my older peripherals. I did a clean install of Win 7 after a HD reformat.
That is typically an HP issue. Basically HP often doesn’t want to update drivers to old printers. They’d rather you buy new.
But then if you have a new printer...it’s still an HP driver issue. This is one of the biggest issues M$ has a hard time fixing...people see it as a M$ issue but it’s really a 3rd party causing the issues via poor drivers.
But the alternative is going with Apple and paying big bucks for less functionality.
No one asked me
crash city
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