After using Windows 7 non-stop (i.e., w/o reboot) for 10 days or so, I am really pleased with its performance compared to Vista x32.
(I upgraded to Windows 7 x32 on my HP Pavilion dv6458SE, AMD Turion 64×2 2GHz, 2GB RAM.)
I immediately noticed that instead of the usual 80% to 90% RAM utilization, it is now more 50% to 70%, CPU is about 12 to 18% vs. 45 to 70%, where I have Office 2007 (Outlook, Excel, WinWord, PowerPoint) running, and IE 8 and Firefox 3.5 with about 9 to 12 open tabs each. (IE 8 alone usually used even when minimized most of the CPU!)
And what a drag it was under Vista switching from one application to the next, or the loooong wait until a dialog menu, well, any menu came up. Vista was busy with itself, doing lots of IOs on the pagefile, temp files, and what not!
Windows 7 is slick and fast, the Upgrade from Vista shows it. And going to Sleep Mode or (sic) Hibernation and later the coming back are now matter of seconds where it was minutes before.
Windows 7 (version 6.1) certainly brought my confidence back, after my frustrations with Vista (version 6.0)!
Well done! Finally! 😉
© August 2009 Jürgen Menge, San José