Over the last few days I’ve been playing with Windows 7.\u00a0 There’s plenty of information out there about the new features and interface tweaks etc, so I won’t before repeating all of that, but one thing that has impressed me is the shear speed and responsiveness is has.<\/p>\n
Not wanting to rebuilt my main laptop I decided to install 7 on my old HP TC1100 tablet PC<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s a good few years old now and only has a 1GHz Pentium M processor, though I have got 1.5 gigs of ram in there.<\/p>\n I’ve always loved the ‘slate’ form factor of the old HP tablets.\u00a0 It’s no bigger than a normal A4 pad of paper so it light and easy to use.\u00a0 Windows XP tablet edition probably wasn’t advanced enough to cope without a full-time keyboard though so the form factor never really took off.\u00a0 That’s a shame as I found that the handwriting recognition in Vista was more than good enough that the slate form factor really worked.\u00a0 The only problem was that Vista ran like a dog on the old TC1100 hardware.\u00a0 It took an age to boot and struggled to run any chunky applications.\u00a0<\/p>\n So with this in mind I wasn’t expecting too much from Windows 7, I just figured it was a handy spare machine to try it on.\u00a0 Having had 7 on there for a few days I’m genuinely surprised by just how good the experience is.\u00a0 It’s much quicker than Vista, probably as quick as Windows XP on the same hardware I reckon.\u00a0\u00a0 Great work from the 7 product team<\/a>.\u00a0 It’ll be interesting to see if things improve further as the product nears completion and release.<\/p>\n