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February 1, 2009 at 1:42 pm #181812TCMuffinMember
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I personally stay with XP because the free programs I have the habit to install will never have issues with it. The same doesn’t apply to Vista or Win7.
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I use OpenOffice 3.0, Firefox, and Thunderbird on my NC10 on both Windows 7 and XP. I also use CCleaner and DriverMax on both OSes and so far everything is working well.February 2, 2009 at 12:03 am #181819jay_2kMemberi was going to make a thread on windows 7 but i think i will ask my question here….
What is the benefit from windows vista and windows 7.
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What are the benefits of using dual boot, i have seen a few people mention it on here but i can seem to understand the advantages.
February 2, 2009 at 12:36 am #181813TCMuffinMember[quote1233534081=jay_2k]
What is the benefit from windows vista and windows 7.
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Windows XP was first released in October 2001, so whilst the Sammy is supplied with XP SP3, this is a still a seven year old OS. OSes have moved on a lot since 2001, but Vista is a resource hog which I would not install on an NC10. However, Windows 7 is ‘leaner and meaner’ and is much closer to what Vista promised before its release in January 2007.[quote1233534081=jay_2k]
What are the benefits of using dual boot, i have seen a few people mention it on here but i can seem to understand the advantages.
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I’m an independent IT consultant and I keep my NC10 in my briefcase for network trouble-shooting, on-site billing, email checking (and, yes, I know my mobile will check for emails but it’s not the same), and a whole host of things. So, my partitioning was largely dictated by my intended use. I have many clients who still use XP and a few who use Vista – for the reasons stated above, I would not attempt to install Vista on my NC10, so I use 7 instead.And I have Linux installed out of interest – in fact I’m just trying out some different flavours, e.g. Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE, and Puppy Linux.
Basically, it’s horses for courses – if you don’t need dual booting – don’t use it 🙂
February 2, 2009 at 12:47 am #181806AlfiharParticipant[quote1233535221=jay_2k]What are the benefits of using dual boot[/quote1233535221]
In addition to what TCMuffin said here are a couple of other reasons why people may want to dual boot.If you are primarily using Linux it is useful to keep Windows installed for applying BIOS updates, this is the main reason why I dual boot.
Windows 7 beta is a time limited OS, you can’t keep it forever. When it expires you will want another OS installed, also as it’s a beta it may not be wise to use it for important work.
Another reason is as a backup, if one OS fails (virus, corruption etc…) then it’s rather useful to be able to reboot into another working OS and keep working and access your files.
February 2, 2009 at 1:16 am #181814TCMuffinMemberThank you, Alfihar. Another couple of points to think about.
Even if you don’t dual boot, do consider partitioning your hard drive. A typical distribution across partitions is as follows:
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Install the OS and other applications (e.g. Office) to one drive, usually the boot (i.e. the C:) drive
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Save data, e.g. documents, photos, music, etc. to a separate partition (i.e. your D: drive)
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Viruses usually attack the partition containing your OS leaving your data safely tucked away
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Keeping your data on a separate drive makes backing it up simpler – you can just copy the whole drive to an external USB drive (for example)
February 2, 2009 at 4:11 am #181810hufnMemberXP is going to be faster for the exact reasons that it’s being thought of as not as good – it’s older 😉 As this is the case it does less overall, and runs great. I’ll bet 98 would scream on this thing 😀 I use Win 7 not because it’s faster (although I imagine it’s better than vista performance wise) but because I like the features so far, and the speed is ‘fast enough’ for what I do. That’s the real kicker – it’s not is it faster, but is it fast enough for what you do 🙂
February 2, 2009 at 5:12 am #181816berflesMember7 boots a hell of a lot faster than XP does for me, and XP boots in 36 seconds.
Aside from that I’d say those two are pretty similar. Firefox opens the same amount of time, the start menu is snappier in 7, but I still can’t get my trackpad working without freezing so I stick to XP.
February 2, 2009 at 2:22 pm #181820jay_2kMemberThanks TCMuffin and Alfihar
Thats what i have done so far, keep all my music, files and other important things on the D partition and keep programmes like office and other things that can be downloaded again on the c partition.
I guess i will just have a single boot as i have no reason to have 2 operating systems. I would like to try 7 but it’s only a beta, so i guess i will wait until the full version comes out and then i might consider upgrading.
Thanks again!
February 2, 2009 at 2:32 pm #181815TCMuffinMemberYou’re welcome, Jay.
Pleased to be able to help 🙂
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