Today I took a look at the Windows 7 RC1 release that Microsoft released. This is build 7100 64 bit edition and it works great. The hardware of the system I installed it on is as follows:
- Intel P35 motherboard w/ICH9r southbridge
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4GHz, 8M cache)
- ATI Radeon HD3870 Primary graphics card
- 8GB DDR2 800MHz
- 80GB 5400 RPM 2.5″ laptop HDD
The quick rundown of things I noticed were as follows:
- Drivers and codecs were all installed on their own, I didn’t have to do anything
- The total installation size for Ultimate excluding paging file and hibernation file is just over 8GB
- The system boots quicker and feels snappier
- The taskbar was changed a lot; while many like it, I don’t
- A few cool features were added
- The interface was cleaned up, paint, calc and wordpad are all new with the ribbon interface
- A few old features were enabled by default to improve user experience
- The hard drive finally doesn’t scratch away like it does under Vista
For the full hands-on preview, check out my videos exploring all the features mentioned and more:
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