Brief view of Parallels running Windows 7 on the Macbook Pro. Website: www.ihackyourtech.net Twitter www.twitter.com
Brief view of Parallels running Windows 7 on the Macbook Pro. Website: www.ihackyourtech.net Twitter www.twitter.com

The curtain has been raised (slightly) on the next installment of Microsoft’s Windows operating system – Windows 7.
Microsoft hope it will bring the internet, mobile phone and PC closer together. But reviews have so far been mixed, although reviewers have been limited to trying the (pre-beta version).
The full version is expected to be capable of working with a touchscreen screen, navigating documents and the Web similar to Apple’s iPhone. It is officially released at the end of 2009.
“I have seen the future, and it is bleak. Windows 7, the next big version, the one that was supposed to fix everything that was wrong with Vista, is here (at least in pre-beta form), and I can now say – with some confidence – that Microsoft has once again dropped the ball.
“Overall, I’m extremely disappointed with Windows 7. Far from atoning for Vista’s sins, Windows 7 simply carries them forward, visiting them upon yet another generation. Windows 7 is no panacea. Rather, it’s just more of the same: slow, bloated, and frustrating as hell.”
“When it comes to Windows 7, Microsoft hasn’t just learned from the mistakes of Windows Vista. It has picked up a thing or two from Apple’s OS X, judging by first impressions.
“It’s not clear how big the changes are so far. If you put the beta-build of Windows 7 side-by-side with Windows Vista, you’d be hard-pressed to spot the differences. Yes, some of the icons look slightly different and there’s no sidebar, but it’s essentially still the Vista look and feel. But that changes when you start to use Windows 7.
“For a start the OS won’t nag you as much; many notifications are banished to a control panel, you get to approve icons before they show up in the system tray and Microsoft has reined in Vista’s useful but annoying UAC prompts; you can choose which ones you want to see or turn them off altogether.”
“Initially Windows 7 looks similar to Vista, but there a lot of new features that have been added. Under the skin, Microsoft has been working hard. Boot times have been reduced, and certainly the review laptop Microsoft provided has a fairly snappy boot time.
“Microsoft has been working with OEMs to improve battery life – simple things such as reducing the timer frequency can improve battery life by up to 10 per cent. The networking stack has had new diagnostics added to help users figure out exactly where the problem lies.
“So, is this all a big deal? It’s not a change to the fundamental core of Windows, and most of the improvements sound relatively small. But taken together, they seem to address many of the issues people have had for Windows. I’m looking forward to trying it out, starting this afternoon.”
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go with boot camp!
at 10:50 pm
U pronounce Aero like thois;
air-o
at 10:50 pm
@aviatorsfinest no
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how big is the size of the windows on mac?
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is ure windows 7 32 bit or 64 bit
at 10:50 pm
stop to tolke fuckiii
at 10:50 pm
can this work for running mac os x on a pc?
at 10:50 pm
coming from a non-techy savvy tho eager to learn user much love on the advice… easy to understand, on point and no jargon no bull ish… thank you for sharing…
im soon to be a parallels user to and wanted to use it for creating music.. do you know of any music production programs that are trustworthy when downloading from internet. there are some that use windows, but i didn’t want to risk it. how about downloading music, is limewire trustworthy? thanks again
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Nice one fella. Best of luck for the future.
at 10:50 pm
i meant your mac will be safe
at 10:50 pm
the virtual machine can get a virus but your will be safe
at 10:50 pm
great vid dude!
at 10:50 pm
Nah…Even while running windows on a mac you can’t get a virus.
at 10:50 pm
can you get a virus on it?
at 10:50 pm
Parallels sucks man vmware
at 10:50 pm
does his save all the file/data you do on vm or doesnt it ?
at 10:50 pm
What features does it lack?
at 10:50 pm
mine run quite slow unless i run 800×600. what resolution can you run?
at 10:50 pm
Subscriber whore ^_^
at 10:50 pm
I got the first new macbook in northern ireland yesterday!!
tis fuckin loverly!!
at 10:50 pm
U have 1000 subscribers already!! Congrats…
at 10:50 pm
on one of my ‘old’ laptops i installed the drivers but even so i wasn’t able to turn aero on, so i thought that this was the ‘problem’..
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actually, it doesn’t have the graphics card driver….thats the actual cause of that “problem”. You need to install the graphics card to turn on Aero….
at 10:50 pm
the aero is just turned off because the virtual machine isn’t powerful enough to run it… vista you know..
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dayum