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Windows 7 Ultimate – First Impressions

Well, being that I feel like I work for a company that is cutting edge, so after reading some good initial reviews, I took the plunge and installed Windows 7. I picked up a Western Digital 640GB Black Edition Hard drive. Want a HD Tune? I suppose. A bit faster than my 6400AAKS

Western Digital 640GB Black HD Tune

640GB Western Digital AAKS

Not much difference.
So far, so good. The installation took about 15 minutes, which was nice.
I’ll make a short run down of what’s good and bad so far as I’m typing to yall on the installation now.
Good:

• 1. On initial installation, just about every single driver was installed. Windows updates took care of the rest. Compared to Windows XP 64, this was a nice treat.
• 2. It’s pretty.
• 3. Pin and Unpin to the task bar is a pretty nice feature, actually.

Bad:

• 1. Google Chrome doesn’t seem to work. No websites will load on it for some reason. 
• 2. Windows 7 seems to be having some sort of problems with my Gigabyte I-RAM.

Also, the Windows Performance Index Scale [a feature from Vista] now goes from 1 to 7.9
My main machine scored as follows:

• CPU: 7.2
• Memory: 7.2
• Desktop Graphics: 7.9
• Gaming Graphics: 5.9
• Overall: 5.9