Comments on: Windows 7 in a Apple Mac environment day 1. http://www.waitingoutside.com/2009/03/windows-7-in-a-apple-mac-environment-day-1/ Photography, geek, gadget stuff and life. Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:39:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: techydude http://www.waitingoutside.com/2009/03/windows-7-in-a-apple-mac-environment-day-1/comment-page-1/#comment-13 techydude Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:37:11 +0000 http://www.waitingoutside.com/?p=235#comment-13 g'day! I installed Win7beta(5075) on an old Thinkpad recently and was very surprised/impressed, compared to the agony that is Vista. Memory footprint after bootup (no apps running) was less than 350Mbytes, about HALF of Vista's! (& lower after disabling superfluous services & features). UI seems cleaner, and even runs acceptably on this old 1.3GHz PentiumM 768MBram Thinkpad. Looks to be what Vista should have been. Your XP box suddenly not booting might be a job for Spinrite (see my review on my blog: http://no-comply.org/2009/02/20/spinrite-on-par-with-craig-venters-brilliance/). Even tho you've rebuilt it now, the underlying problem might still be there to come back to haunt when the OS gets around to using that bit of the disk again. Unfortunately this is a sad reality of domestic-grade hard-drives, in fact it always has been, and countless machines (inc Macs, they're the same hard-drives) are rebuilt &/or thrown out simply for lack of a bit of hard-drive TLC. I only wish there was a way to boot a Mac from a Spinrite CD... :( only recourse is to temporarily remove the drive & plug it into a Windoze box, which obviously isn't fun for most people. g’day!
I installed Win7beta(5075) on an old Thinkpad recently and was very surprised/impressed, compared to the agony that is Vista. Memory footprint after bootup (no apps running) was less than 350Mbytes, about HALF of Vista’s! (& lower after disabling superfluous services & features). UI seems cleaner, and even runs acceptably on this old 1.3GHz PentiumM 768MBram Thinkpad. Looks to be what Vista should have been.

Your XP box suddenly not booting might be a job for Spinrite (see my review on my blog: http://no-comply.org/2009/02/20/spinrite-on-par-with-craig-venters-brilliance/).

Even tho you’ve rebuilt it now, the underlying problem might still be there to come back to haunt when the OS gets around to using that bit of the disk again. Unfortunately this is a sad reality of domestic-grade hard-drives, in fact it always has been, and countless machines (inc Macs, they’re the same hard-drives) are rebuilt &/or thrown out simply for lack of a bit of hard-drive TLC. I only wish there was a way to boot a Mac from a Spinrite CD… :( only recourse is to temporarily remove the drive & plug it into a Windoze box, which obviously isn’t fun for most people.

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