January 20, 2009 4:24 PM PST
The Real Deal 145: Windows 7
We discuss the ins and outs of
Windows 7 and share some tips and tricks.
Listen now: Download today's podcast
Windows 7 What is it? When? Hype - what's supposed to be so great? We tried it - what we thought install using Tips and cool features What it means to PC makers To Apple to Netbook market COMMENTS ON NETBOOKS EPISODE Hey All- Thought I'd chime in real quick about Netbooks. Seems one of the few thing the UK and most of Europe is WAY ahead on is the Netbook. Here in the UK you can choose from multiple Netbooks for free or VERY cheap by signing up for mobile Internet. Almost every mobile company has a usb stick mobile 3G internet from as little as ?4 and up to ?30 a month. Giving you anywhere from 1 gig to 15 gigs a month of data transfer. [Forget unlimited, unlimited in the UK means very limited and 15 gigs is the largest I've seen yet.] Basically with the larger plans (the ones ?20 and up) you can get your Netbook of choice for ?50 or even Free (and yes I mean the high-end Netbooks too). It's only a 18 month contract so really you are paying for the Netbook with free internet access anywhere within the UK. So maybe in another year or two you'll see it happen in the US. Oh and I have to at least rub this in... Virgin media is rolling out 50mb broadband in the UK. It should be in most areas by the end of the year.
Your ever faithful Doppelganger... Cheers!
Tom Merritt
Oxford, England
just finished listening to the "Netbooks" podcast. Though you might like to know that Open Office is now offering a plug in that lets you import and export to Google docs. It also does Zoho and WebDav?. Here's a link: Open Office Google Docs Another cool syncing app I use is Dropbox. I couldn't remember if you guys have talked about it before, but its such a cool and useful service I figured it would be worth mentioning. Link: www.getdropbox.com Duncan COMMENTS ON SWITCH EPISODE Hey guys- a couple of Apple tips, that might help. I know you don't want to have to run something like Onyx, here's why should: Apple programs your Mac to run daily, weekly and monthly scripts to do clean up. This is programmed in the UNIX and it's set to run at night, when you're not using your computer. But if you put your Mac to sleep, it won't run. You can Terminal your way into the UNIX and change it, but you should have high geek cred for that. So it's better to run something like Onyx or Cocktail which will run the scripts as well as empty the caches and repair any broken permissions (Mac registry stuff). I run Cocktail once a week and even on my old iBook, which I had for 3 years, 2 OS changes and lots of program adding and trashing. It ran pretty well for all that time and certain better than any Windows machine over the same amount of time. Sheala, GA Next time: Home media? COMMENT ON PASSWORD EPISODE Voice mail about Sparse image on Mac realdeal@cnet.com forums.cnet.com 877-600-CNET
Listen now: Download today's podcast
Windows 7 What is it? When? Hype - what's supposed to be so great? We tried it - what we thought install using Tips and cool features What it means to PC makers To Apple to Netbook market COMMENTS ON NETBOOKS EPISODE Hey All- Thought I'd chime in real quick about Netbooks. Seems one of the few thing the UK and most of Europe is WAY ahead on is the Netbook. Here in the UK you can choose from multiple Netbooks for free or VERY cheap by signing up for mobile Internet. Almost every mobile company has a usb stick mobile 3G internet from as little as ?4 and up to ?30 a month. Giving you anywhere from 1 gig to 15 gigs a month of data transfer. [Forget unlimited, unlimited in the UK means very limited and 15 gigs is the largest I've seen yet.] Basically with the larger plans (the ones ?20 and up) you can get your Netbook of choice for ?50 or even Free (and yes I mean the high-end Netbooks too). It's only a 18 month contract so really you are paying for the Netbook with free internet access anywhere within the UK. So maybe in another year or two you'll see it happen in the US. Oh and I have to at least rub this in... Virgin media is rolling out 50mb broadband in the UK. It should be in most areas by the end of the year.
Your ever faithful Doppelganger... Cheers!
Tom Merritt
Oxford, England
just finished listening to the "Netbooks" podcast. Though you might like to know that Open Office is now offering a plug in that lets you import and export to Google docs. It also does Zoho and WebDav?. Here's a link: Open Office Google Docs Another cool syncing app I use is Dropbox. I couldn't remember if you guys have talked about it before, but its such a cool and useful service I figured it would be worth mentioning. Link: www.getdropbox.com Duncan COMMENTS ON SWITCH EPISODE Hey guys- a couple of Apple tips, that might help. I know you don't want to have to run something like Onyx, here's why should: Apple programs your Mac to run daily, weekly and monthly scripts to do clean up. This is programmed in the UNIX and it's set to run at night, when you're not using your computer. But if you put your Mac to sleep, it won't run. You can Terminal your way into the UNIX and change it, but you should have high geek cred for that. So it's better to run something like Onyx or Cocktail which will run the scripts as well as empty the caches and repair any broken permissions (Mac registry stuff). I run Cocktail once a week and even on my old iBook, which I had for 3 years, 2 OS changes and lots of program adding and trashing. It ran pretty well for all that time and certain better than any Windows machine over the same amount of time. Sheala, GA Next time: Home media? COMMENT ON PASSWORD EPISODE Voice mail about Sparse image on Mac realdeal@cnet.com forums.cnet.com 877-600-CNET
Tom Merritt appears on CNET TV and loves to dive into technology and help consumers fight fear, uncertainty, and doubt with technology.
Rafe Needleman is editor of Webware.com, CNET's blog about Web applications. He lives to discover great new online apps – and to rip apart bad ones.
I have been running Windows 7 as my primary OS for the past few days and it has been working out quite well for me.
The Windows+Tab key command that cycles through the open windows is much smoother.
Some programs work faster, and I love the new Snipping Tool.
I wonder why they did not simply push this as Vista SP2. It would have saved Vista's name and it would have followed an established trend: Third time's the charm.
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by vinsont
February 18, 2009 10:32 AM PST
- Zippy! Come on guys are you serious. Windows 7 is slow as Christmas on my Dimension 5150. So slow I can't stand to use it, and I have 3 gig of Ram!!!
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