Given that you can buy a 1tb drive for $75.00, I guess I am not too
concerned at how large the OS is. That is the downside for more "features"
I guess.
At 05:14 PM 9/6/2010, It was written by Soren that this shall come to pass:
OK, so far my impressions are that the Win7 installation footprint should
be in the area of "only" around 14 GB.
I need to do some partition resizing and so, including deletion of several
propreritary HP progs, and cleaning up the registry. Hopefully, this will
end satisfactory. In a few days I'll know.
Yes, I know I'm acting paranoid :), but I usually deal with XP
installations (dumped Vista completely at first sight) where a fresh
install can fit on a single CD, using highest compression in Ghost. With
drivers and different progs installed, only 2 CDs, or at worst, a single DVD.
Come on... 14 GBs for an O/S alone - M$ has some serious issues here. I
used to think that e.g. Ubuntu is a piece of bloatware, but this one for
sure gets the prize.
What happened to OS/2, BTW? I've always wondered why any O/S needs to be
more than 64MB's which is more than sufficient with proper coding, even
seen with todays' standards.
/s
