[brainwash]

Passive happiness is using Windows 7. It pleases you because you’re using the latest Windows operating system available today. It tickles inspiration and pushes you to fulfillment in work, play or study.

[/brainwash]

I love Windows 7; that’s passive. Actively, I get a kick out of showing people the new features and conversing on how its making things better for them; whether their prayers have been answered, issues lifted, or found something so useful that shocked them on how’d they ever live without it.

I’m at an internet cafe on a bad machine by my standards. I am a hard person to please when it comes to hardware, I always prefer the best possible experience when using a computer. I play and work hard. The machine I’m using right now to post this is laughable: Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 (2.20GHz), 1GB DDR2@333Mhz and a GeForce 7300 GT. A little notch above entry leve l, mediocre and similar to what most people who “just need a computer” have.

Yet you would be surprised how good Windows 7 makes this computer feel. It’s responsive for one and everything else you expect in higher end computers. Already installed in this computer are your typical performance hungry 3D games such as Call of Duty 4: Modern Ware 2, Left4Dead 2, etc.

You would think these games would crawl at this poor, underpowered system. You would be wrong.

Staggeringly, they run decent, wait… better than decent. The games mentioned above and all other games run on the highest available resolution as well as up to a 2x level of anti-aliasing (smoothens jagged edges) and some higher levels of model details/texture. It might be magic working under the core, but really there’s technical jabber that rationalizes all that which I’m trying to avoid for this post. A partly and short explaination is that graphics priority to foreground applications play a large part in Windows 7: video memory is ony allocated to active (onscreen) applications rather than split to everything running even if most don’t actually appear onscreen. As a proof of result… while running Left4Dead 2…Aero Flip works just fine, at some points delaying for a second but that’s understandable. There maybe lots more to mention, maybe some I don’t even know about, but as mentioned in another post: an operating system with the functionality of Windows Vista and greater while performing as it would as if it was on XP is magic enough.

It’s naive, misinformative and inaccurate if I give all the trophies to Windows 7 though, the hardware have done their part as well. It was entirely in my own opinion that I didn’t give them enough credit.

What Windows 7 was responsible for was the optimizations and the overall user experience to make this all possible. That my friends, will make anyone happy.