Are you ready to put a Windows 7 sticker on your laptop

[tom lightbody]

> ...windows 7 sticker on your laptop

certainly not

[yak]

No stickers are allowed on my T60 (running Windows 7 by the way).

They just spoil the great ThinkPad design.

[CRAZYBUBBA]

The sticker ALONE? No, but otherwise if the sticker were part and parcel of the OS I would gladly take it.

[visionviper]

Why on earth would people not want to put a sticker on their computer?

Everyone knows that by putting stickers on anything it makes it faster.

Sticker on a car? Car goes faster.
Sticker on a computer? Computer goes faster.
Sticker on a blender? Blends faster.

I'm sure there is a scientific proof of this somewhere.

[dr_st]

I happen to be one of the weird guys who likes stickers on their laptop palmrests / desktop towers.

But I don't like Windows 7 though. What a stupid name for an operating system that's actually Windows NT 6.1.

So no Win7 sticker for me in the near future.

[emeraldgirl08]

I will leave my laptops alone. They have the XP, Pentium M, and one has the ATI sticker on it already. One more sticker and my laptops will tip over!

So no. Too much extra weight!

[visionviper]

I happen to be one of the weird guys who likes stickers on their laptop palmrests / desktop towers.

But I don't like Windows 7 though. What a stupid name for an operating system that's actually Windows NT 6.1.

So no Win7 sticker for me in the near future.

It may be NT 6.1, but its like the 10th or 11th version of Windows.

I particularly like the name - I like numbers more than names for this kind of stuff.

[dr_st]

I particularly like the name - I like numbers more than names for this kind of stuff.

Agree, but shouldn't the numbers at least make some sense? Like you said, it's the 10th, or 11th edition, released in 2009,
what does "7" have to do with it? Because it's a lucky number?

They called it 7 to somehow signify that it's "the next major release" after 6 (Vista), and isn't just "Vista Enhanced" (which is of course false, it sure does not look farther from Vista than XP was from 2000).

The problem is that it's likely to cause more confusion down the road when NT 7.0 comes out.

[visionviper]

Agree, but shouldn't the numbers at least make some sense? Like you said, it's the 10th, or 11th edition, released in 2009,
what does "7" have to do with it? Because it's a lucky number?

They called it 7 to somehow signify that it's "the next major release" after 6 (Vista), and isn't just "Vista Enhanced" (which is of course false, it sure does not look farther from Vista than XP was from 2000).

The problem is that it's likely to cause more confusion down the road when NT 7.0 comes out.

There is quite a change between Vista and 7 and it is mostly under the hood. Heck, if you compare the DVD size of Vista Business vs Windows 7 Professional - Windows 7 is smaller by a wide margin.

And yeah, they won't be able to call the NT 7 based OS Windows 7, but does that really matter? How many people actually track kernel revisions besides enthusiasts?

[dr_st]

There is quite a change between Vista and 7 and it is mostly under the hood. Heck, if you compare the DVD size of Vista Business vs Windows 7 Professional - Windows 7 is smaller by a wide margin.

The biggest change is how much useless junk is provided/enabled by default. Which is why the DVD is smaller, and why the memory footprint is smaller as well.

Changes between Win2K and WinXP were bigger.

And yeah, they won't be able to call the NT 7 based OS Windows 7, but does that really matter? How many people actually track kernel revisions besides enthusiasts?

Well... Enthusiasts/developers are not such a big group, but they are one to reckon with.

[visionviper]

The biggest change is how much useless junk is provided/enabled by default. Which is why the DVD is smaller, and why the memory footprint is smaller as well.

Well it isn't just things they removed but code optimizations. The guy running the windows division said that one of their main focuses in Windows 7 was to make code more efficient.

The stuff that has been removed from Vista isn't really that much when you look at the list. While the removal of some of those features might have lead to some performance improvement the most comes from the revamped code.

[astroidea]

Why on earth would people not want to put a sticker on their computer?

Everyone knows that by putting stickers on anything it makes it faster.

Sticker on a car? Car goes faster.
Sticker on a computer? Computer goes faster.
Sticker on a blender? Blends faster.

I'm sure there is a scientific proof of this somewhere.

LOL I put my core2quad sticker from my Q9550 on my X41 tablet. Thing runs like a beast now.