All,
Disapointment is how I would best describe my experience of Windows 7. All of the above you are concerned with the ability of people to articulate their issues - Three days ago, I bought a brand new laptop. Up until now I have not been able to use it.
The laptop is for my dad who simply wants e-mail running off of a dial up connection. He does not want broadband.
I currently have a Macbook pro and a desktop pc running XP, so I have both, and am happy using both.
Here are my issues:
- I open the box, turn it on go through the motions, very happy. my three yr old son is running around, I shut the lid. When I open it again the screen is black.
- I hard reset it, look on a few forums find out that I have to run several updates before it will become stable again, but I'm on dial up. So I have to take the laptop to my house.
- I download the updates, it seems to have fixed it. So I start working out where express or outlook is. It is not. So I have to download Windows live. The mail program does not come pre-installed. So download and install.
- I shut the lid on Monday night.
- Today is has crashed when I opened the lid.
- I then attempt to turn it on - Adobe needs updating, then it shuts down and restarts.
- It restarts, and I have to update Windows again with messges popping up from the bottom right again!
- I go to open IE, it takes ages to load. Whilst I am waiting I try to use the trackpad, no consistency of gesture recognition, but I'll let that one go, it took me a while to get used to the mac pad.
All in. It is three days in, and I am using a laptop that I have Zero trust, or desire to use, and my dad will not see his new laptop for a week.
People, get off your seemingly high horses in a mac / pc war - it should work out of the box, it should have the basics pre-installed, and people such as my dad should be able to use it.
Disapointed,
Howard.