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I've got a crappy old desktop at home running Weven - 2GHz processor 1GB RAM. Installed all my usual stuff including VS2008 and it still runs quicker than Vista on a far better machine. The only thing that's slow is IE8 - but that's no suprise. I don't know what they've done but they should do more of it!
Dave
BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)DaveyM69 wrote:
I don't know what they've done but they should do more of it!
Rewrote all the pokey .Net calls in a real manly language like C++? :) (where's my flameproof underwear...? )
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DaveyM69 wrote:
The only thing that's slow is IE8
What about VS 2008? It runs slow on my dual core machine with 3 GB RAM. I'd be surprised if you say that it runs fast on your 1 GB museum piece.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkA bit 'clunky' to start up, but once it's loaded it pretty fast and responsive. It's just a single core jobby too. Trying to work it out. I think I built it about 6 maybe 7 years ago when 2GHz was about the fastest you could get.
Dave
BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
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A bit 'clunky' to start up, but once it's loaded it pretty fast and responsive. It's just a single core jobby too. Trying to work it out. I think I built it about 6 maybe 7 years ago when 2GHz was about the fastest you could get.
Dave
BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)DaveyM69 wrote:
A bit 'clunky' to start up, but once it's loaded it pretty fast and responsive.
Lucky you. I work on a solution with a couple of dozen projects and it crashes every 15-20 minutes, and I have to restart it :-(
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com link -
I've got a crappy old desktop at home running Weven - 2GHz processor 1GB RAM. Installed all my usual stuff including VS2008 and it still runs quicker than Vista on a far better machine. The only thing that's slow is IE8 - but that's no suprise. I don't know what they've done but they should do more of it!
Dave
BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)DaveyM69 wrote:
The only thing that's slow is IE8 - but that's no suprise.
IIRC, the IE8 build for Win7 beta is busted, last I heard.
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Just completed the installation of Win 7 beta on my office laptop (my employer encourages "living on the edge" when it comes to technology) and although I never considered Vista to be slow before, now I am having second thoughts - Win 7 is so snappy that it is not even funny.
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
Win 7 is so snappy that it is not even funny
There's nothing funny about Vista or Weven.
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Jim Crafton wrote:
Ahh, so you're going to go 64 bit?
Yeah, mainly for the RAM. I guess I'll have to face some driver incompatibility issues.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkUnlikely unless you've got antique hardware you need to support. Just about anything from the last few years should be supported.
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Lucky you. I deleted my copy of the ISO image a little while ago, and I'm beginning to regret not burning it to a spare DVD or CD. When it comes out, I'm going to see if I can get it - Vista's good, but Windows 7 looks and feels better. I'll also have an excuse to format the entire hard drive and start clean, with no manufacturer recovery partitions to clutter up my disk. The only challenge will be seeing if Windows 7's Homegroups will interact with the Vista set-up on the laptop
The ISO's mirrored in millions of places in torrent land if you've requested a key from MS it doesn't matter where the DL comes from.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Just completed the installation of Win 7 beta on my office laptop (my employer encourages "living on the edge" when it comes to technology) and although I never considered Vista to be slow before, now I am having second thoughts - Win 7 is so snappy that it is not even funny.
Tell me about it. Yesterday I got solid state drive and installed W7 on it for my main development machine and it's blazing fast: starts in under 20 seconds, shutdowns in a matter of seconds, VS starts instantaneously (I'm hardly able to see splash screen)... So if you want performance W7&SSD is way to go!
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Just completed the installation of Win 7 beta on my office laptop (my employer encourages "living on the edge" when it comes to technology) and although I never considered Vista to be slow before, now I am having second thoughts - Win 7 is so snappy that it is not even funny.
Windows 7 is a very nice platform, the scientific startup screen is quite memorably serene too. We've recently discovered that the RC will last sometime into 2010. I was quite pleased when Visual Lint installed first time too, so it looks like I'm skipping Vista for next laptop!
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Cool - good to hear that. I've been putting off my new desktop purchase for a while now. Maybe I should get it soon so I can install Windows 7 too. Have you installed a lot of apps on it? And is it still fast after that?
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkI use it as my Windows OS running under VMWare Fusion on my MacBook Pro. I've got Office 2007 & Visual Studio installed, plus Avast AV. It's kinda nice :-) The only issues I've found are to do with virtualisation - I don't get the fancy graphics and also, the performance is equivalent to what you'd get if you had a Core 2 Duo with one core disabled. I tried turning on the 'two virtual processors' option in VMWare...but that made it much slower... Having said that, it's kinda cool. I run it full-screen (improves performance and means I don't have to deal with mixed Windows/OS X windows), but in it's own Space (a.k.a. desktop), so I can swap between Windows and OS X with a single key-chord.
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Just completed the installation of Win 7 beta on my office laptop (my employer encourages "living on the edge" when it comes to technology) and although I never considered Vista to be slow before, now I am having second thoughts - Win 7 is so snappy that it is not even funny.
It's much better than (W)ista but it still has that stupid IE look. While the crumb trail is a little better I still find myself hitting that stupid browse bar which jumps to the internet. Something to try on 7, Has anyone found a way to move those buttons on Vista and IE. I like the firefox format better sinse it keeps them together.
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