http://www.osnews.com/story/22393/Windows_7_Macs_Apple Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 25 May 2013 14:54:00 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?390936 http://www.osnews.com/thread?390936 Was more notable for the Amiga news, Hyperion vs. Amiga inc. release of MorphOS for Mac Mini, updates of both their web-browsers. But then I'm a AmiFag so a little biased. Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AmigaRobbo) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?390946 http://www.osnews.com/thread?390946 Windows 7 will be the next microsoft successor. It is better, and it is lightweight! That is what people say. Ok, let`s count how many people and organisations will repartition their hard drives to extend their 8 or 10 GB C:\ partitions with their working XP to 20GB required for W7..;]Edited 2009-10-25 14:29 UTC Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (k.g.stoyanov) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?390957 http://www.osnews.com/thread?390957 It is lightweight, well compaired to Vista anyway. It would be unsual for an OS released in 2009 to be lighter on resources compired to the 2001 version. Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AmigaRobbo) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?391062 http://www.osnews.com/thread?391062 And what has been the average size of drives over the past few years? Seems to me that people worrying about this piddly amount have other concerns than the OS in question, as the computer is probably old as hell as well. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ssa2204) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?391082 http://www.osnews.com/thread?391082 How can a modern OS with all things included weight 20GB? It's insane. It's only the OS with almost no applications, not much documentation, not a lot of drivers. What's in there to weight 20GB?

My entire Linux installation with KDE desktop, documentation and translations is smaller. And that includes compilers, runtimes, python, perl, ruby, ghc and a myriad of binaries and libraries. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbenitezb) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?391101 http://www.osnews.com/thread?391101 Cache cache cache. When you can’t be fast for real, just use cache. The size of a Windows install is bloated by the page file, the hyberfile, the prefetch, the driver cache, the assembly cache (WinSxS), superfetch, and who knows how many other caches. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?391126 http://www.osnews.com/thread?391126 Don't forget all the temporary files and web histories that never get deleted, and the ridiculous amount of legacy compatibility still there, and the fact that most programs leave things all over, and the ridiculous size of a lot of Windows drivers and frameworks, and... well you get the idea.
I'll be fair though, a fresh install of 32-bit windows 7 seems to weigh in at around 7 gb or so, not 20. Vista on the other hand easily could take up 25 gb. I'm not sure which is smaller, Windows 7 or Snow Leopard, but I'd bet it's a close race. I still think 7 gb is too big for an os, not that it really matters in this day of large hard drives and even SSDs are becoming reasonable at larger sizes. Still I can't help but compare that to a full Ubuntu install with all the apps I need weighing in at about 2.5 gb, and obviously using an os like Arch you can really have a small environment that is just as functional. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (darknexus) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?391167 http://www.osnews.com/thread?391167 My copy of Windows 7 arrived. I was bad and trusted (should have paid attention to comments on the web) "Windows Easy Transfer" to move all of my data.

On OS X the transfer utility covers all the data files from all the apps you use/used. Windows, as I learned, does not. It tells you that it does not transfer "Applications" but... I sort of expected my "AppData" folder to move with me.

Ah well. It is sort of nice to start with a clean slate... and I do have some backups should I need them, but I did lose a few days of email.

I wish I had a "computer room" where I could have racks of computers and run every OS out there. I'd never get an work done tho'.Edited 2009-10-26 15:44 UTC Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tuishimi) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?391181 http://www.osnews.com/thread?391181 I still have to say Boo Hiss to Apple for dropping their ZFS port altogether. I'm pretty sure it was for brain-dead, non-technical reasons.

But whatever, I've got lots of sane and open options for my future upgrades. I'm quite sure that FreeBSD 8.1 and higher will be very nice Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lazarus) Comments