![]() We use Exchange and Outlook for email and calendaring, and it seems about once a week the OST file (where outlook keeps local data) borks. ![]() I even like Office 2010 and the ribbon interface that was introduced in Office 2007.īut, for some strange reason, I have glitches in my email. Of course, since I work in the corporate world, I am forced to use Windows (well, in the past I have been a rebel and was a Mac in a PC world, but I stopped beating my head against that wall). But I will grant that Windows 7 is pretty good, and usable. OS-X just works better for me, and my workflow. I know that it isn’t Microsoft’s fault for this, but it is painful. Unfortunately I have 2 more years on this lease before I can make that jump. In fact it has become such a problem that our standard configuration for laptops is now with an SSD. Direct links to our Sharepoint system that cause huge slowdown periodicallyĪll told, when I need to reboot my system, which happens far to frequently, it is literally a 20 minute process until the machine becomes responsive.Our presence and messaging solution is Cisco WebEx connect and Meetingplace (which is a flippin resource pig).FFS, how many of them are really needed to say that this is my laptop? About 7 services related to asset tracking, and cataloging.Stock it came with only 4G of ram (which seems like a waste for a 64 bit OS), that I bumped to 16G.īut it is encumbered with an amazing amount of crap. I doubt that a quad core i7 would make much difference. Well, it isn’t the hardware, it has a snappy Core i5 dual core system. I mean, teleport me back to the 1990’s and 2 megabyte Windows 95 slow. I have an OK HP elitebook (15″ mid sized laptop) that once I got the driver sorted out worked pretty well (the stock image that we drop on it doesn’t have the chipset or the audio drivers setup properly.)īut this this is dog slow. I used it at my last company on a decent Dell Latitude system, and it was quite good. Stable, snappy, and not too much of a resource hog, even on questionable hardware. ![]() As a longtime Mac person, I have to admit that Windows 7 is a pretty good operating system.
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