Upgrade Accomplished
So yeah, Windows 7. It’s shiny. Shiner than a Mac, even. :D
Things I love:
- The taskbar: Mouseover window previews and pinning favorite locations. I want the Mac’s Dock to start doing this. Now.
- Window resizing: Especially useful for widescreens. Just drag to the top to maximize, drag to a side to fill up that half of the screen. I’ve been using it a lot more than I thought it would. Probably not as useful on low resolutions though.
- Themes: Oooh, shiny. Though they still are using pretty low-quality pictures, it seems. But an automatic background changer? ♥ And the screen when you log in is just beautiful, though I know it’ll be dated in a couple of years.
- Super-quick install: And it came with almost all of the drivers I needed. Was just missing an NVIDIA driver, but the Windows default worked great. The NVIDIA one didn’t really add anything but their control panel, it seems.
Things I don’t love:
- All Programs: Folders at the bottom? Seriously? Should’ve been fixed after Vista. Though auto-alphabetize is pretty nice.
- Had problems with screen resolutions. On my 16:10 display, 1440x900 works great, but 1280x800 adds huge black bars on the top and bottom, squishing the desktop itself. Wasn’t resolved after I reinstalled the recommended video driver. Pretty annoying considering the system fonts seem smaller than they were in XP.
It’s running pretty awesome under 64-bit on a Dell Precision T3400, even though my Experience Index is 3.5 because of the graphics card. We’ll see if it’s still as shiny in a few months when all the programmers figure out how to bog down the system.
Also upgraded: Zoo sweatshirts. General consensus: they’re hideous and we’re never wearing them off zoo grounds because of the giant “ZOO” on the back. At least they’re black instead of the ugly beige they were before.
Not really upgraded, but still updating daily, amazingly enough: Lilies & Lemons. Taking decent photos everyday is kinda hard. I’m not happy with the photos on November 5, but then again, I did come home and sleep until I had to get up to see Labyrinth. -__-;;








