A Change of Scenery

As soon as the Windows 7 beta publically released (or, rather, properly released), I nabbed it, mostly to see what the hype was all about. It’s a pretty decent OS thus far. I haven’t had much experience with Vista, so I can’t say how much of an improvement this is over that (although I’m sure you can find it somewhere else). However, it’s quite speedy and zips along just as fast as XP did, except with a dash of Aero polish. I didn’t need to install any drivers, either; everything worked right out of the box, except for the fingerprint scanner my laptop came with, which Windows 7 instantaneously and gleefully provided a link to.

Coincidentally, Pentavision released the ‘full version’ of the DJ Max Portable Black Square website and had some downloadable goodies on hand, too. I nabbed a pair, and now they’re in a rotation with three other images in Windows 7’s built-in desktop picture shuffler thing. Nifty-nifty stuff.

Now, the only gripe I have is that I can’t watch softsubbed anime on Windows 7. Supposedly, there are ‘working’ tweaks, but for some odd reason or another, those tweaks aren’t working their magic on my computer.

I guess whenever I’m in the mood for Shugo Chara!, I’ll be restarting my computer, but other than that, I’m quite content with Windows 7 thus far.

Addendum: While talking with Rome, I did a pair of benchmarks: it takes about less than a minute (50 sec.) to get to ‘fully working’ e.g. you can open up an application and not have it choke; and RAM usage upon startup is approximately 17% of 4GB (.68GB). This figure jumps to about 24.x% when I actually start doing stuff (for the record, this is on “maximum-shiny” Windows Aero – boatloads of blending effects and whatnot ahoy!

Also, I was able to do the above picture in Paint. Whenever I get back to XP, I’ll give it that good dose of drop shadow. Still – proper PNG support in Paint is great, even though it’s probably been there since Vista.

Speaking of things that were in Vista but are not present in 7, Inkball is gone. The best default Windows game came and went. Microsoft needs to correct this, and preferably with the next beta build of Win7.