Upgraded to Windows 7

I got my free upgrade disc in so, this weekend I upgraded to Windows 7 from Windows Vista. I chose to do a complete reformat because I wanted to eliminate possibility of something going wrong . I had to back up my data, reformat and reinstall all of my programs, so all of that took several hours, but it’s worth it.

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Windows 7 is definitely a lot better performance wise and is starts up in about half the time. The tool bar takes a little getting used to  for me because it looks like the dock in OS X, but it works differently. Overall, it seems very stable, visually pleasing and runs like Vista should have.

Here are my sub scores from Windows 7. Windows 7’s max sub score is raised from Vista’s 5.9 to 7.9

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @2.83GHz – 7.3
Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB – 5.9
Graphics Intel(R) G45/G43 Express Chipset – 4.6
Gaming graphics 1695 MB Total available graphics memory – 3.6
Primary hard disk 405GB Free (466GB Total) – 5.9

Not bad.