So on the weekend a friend of my girlfriend’s sister was by the house with a (relatively) old laptop. It had 1 Gig of Ram and a 1.6Ghz single core something or other CPU. Normally, not that impressive, but in this case it was – it was running Windows 7. And not just running it fairly well, but running it quickly. Vista would have flat-out laughed at that machine, and then kicked it. Twice.
This prompted me to go online and find info on the Windows 7 Release Candidate. Downloaded and burned the ISO last night and successfully installed it and set it up this morning. It was stupid-easy. It was easy in the way Mac’s claim to be. It detected everything (except my sound card, which set up manually without a hitch). It didn’t need to use the damned floppy drive for anything (I’m looking at you, XP), it installed quickly and seamlessly.
So far, it’s beautiful, intuitive and all sorts of good adjectives. I through it on a spare SATA drive I had lying around, so my system now happily dual-boots between XP and 7, depending on my whim. And from what I’ve seen so far, my whim is going to more often be 7 than XP.
Grab it yourself here. But do it soon - I think they stop handing out keys on the 10th of this month.
If you’ve got a spare computer, or even drive, I wholeheartedly support giving it a shot. Hell, it’s free.
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