I downloaded both the x86 and x64 versions of Windows 7 to install and have to say the install time didn’t seem to change much from windows vista but I had far less problems out of the box sort of speak. I use x86 on my work laptop because of the cisco vpn client that we have and x64 on my home computer. Both installs seemed to take about the same amount of time but once it was done I was simply amazed at the low memory usage considering the new desktop effects (super taskbar & slideshow desktop).
On my work laptop I had to download the latest bluetooth software from Dell so I got the vista version which I had many problems
to get working but on 7 it just installed and walla works!~ I also downloaded the latest nvidia 110 driver just to be on the
safe side.
After loading all my other software that I normally use my work laptop went to about 1gb of memory usage when using several apps like firefox, outlook, call logging, etc. Which I consider good since vista used over 2gb of memory for the same apps. I have to say providing that microsoft doesn’t screw this up I could see it easly replacing vista… As a matter of fact I think they should pull vista and just use Windows 7 but thats my opinion.
If you haven’t already downloaded it try it now. You won’t be disappointed!!!!
