should i upgrade to windows 7

eslick

Hi All

We have vista on our home laptop, been hopeless until I recently got round to upgrading the ram and now things are much quicker.

Now my thoughts are moving to windows 7, we only really use the laptop for the internet, occasional word and excel use both 2010 versions and downloading music.

Would you go down the route of buying windows 7 or for what we use it is it not worth the expense. Have a little one at school so can get the student discount version.

thanks

davb

If it was a straight choice between Vista and 7, then 7 wins hands down. But, if your Vista setup is working ok, and doing what you want, then it may not be worth the expense and hassle of upgrading - it would probably mean installing and setting up everything again.

WhiteChristmas

If you can do it on the cheap, I would.

7 is really just a properly debugged Vista; it really should have been a free upgrade.

savemoney

Vista was a stop gap much like win millennium. Vista is okay if it was a choice I go for win 7 any day but if money is tight why bother, if it aint broke dont fix it

eslick

savemoney wrote: »

if it aint broke dont fix it

thats the way I have been looking at not really sure if we will see any benefit, heard it can run things quicker but for the little we do on the laptop just not sure if there is any point in buying 7.

Hammyman

It doesn't run things quicker - it benchmarks the same. However the GUI tweaks give the perception of it running quicker.

esuhl

eslick wrote: »

Now my thoughts are moving to windows 7...

Would you go down the route of buying windows 7...

What problems are you trying to fix by upgrading? Do you think the expense is worth paying to fix the problems?

If it's just speed - I doubt you'll notice any difference. The bottlenecks in the graphics subsystem have been fixed in Windows 7, but as Hammyman says, that just gives the impression that it runs a tiny bit faster/smoother.

Unless you have a specific need to use Windows 7, I wouldn't bother upgrading personally. Vista was a great concept, but badly cobbled together. Windows 7 is really the same OS, but with a more polished UI.

Sublime_2

I don't regret upgrading to win 7 for one moment. I hated vista, and had a lot of system crashes. Win 7 is everything vista wasn't.