PC Tonic

There are some things that simply win you over at first glance.

And Windows 7 has become one of “those” things for me. I’ve been using the release candidate on my laptop for the last couple of days, and I’m just amazed how smooth and elegant it is. It boots up faster, it takes significantly less space than Vista Ultimate, it uses my battery more efficiently, it provides much more flexibility over those horrendous UAC prompts, it’s got the awesome ‘Libraries’ concept, it has all those ridiculously good wallpapers and themes, it supports all my drivers (display, network, blah blah…) out of the box, it runs all of my software without a glitch, AND it has all those beautiful little usability tweaks everywhere! This release candidate feels so refined and well-made that I can’t imagine the final product getting better (which won’t be too bad either). I’ve switched to Windows 7 RC full-time from Vista Ultimate and will be making the jump to the main release as soon as it’s available through our institute. My faithful old Vista DVD was good, but 7 just blows it off its rockers.

If you haven’t tried out the RC yet, it’s time you did it. And if you’ve, what’s your verdict? Flood the comments section!